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32 yrs. ago I used to order and collect them by the three dozen from the producers on a monthly basis as I was the under manager / maintenance guy for an fairly big electro / mechanical hire / sales company . These older UK made ones also had the same warning but it gave the cross...

John, Thanks very much for the last post. It suddenly squares the circle for me in many aspects of things I've done & why I did them to DEFENCE standards rather than to the lower standard wiring regs.

That's interesting John For years I've understood that they were with a legal penalty if you caught doing otherwise whether you were or were not in possession of the latest certificate of passing the regulation exam I thought the regs became legislated law about 10 years ago . I...

Interesting .. Can a customer still legally disconnect the oven and take it with them if they move? Would this action cause a change in interpretation to now require a circuit protection device?

Does not the fact that the CU & most likely the wiring in the place is nearly 35 years old indicate the serious need for a complete new system in any case rather than keeping it? I'd certainly sympathetically point that out to the customer and also advise them that not renewing the system...

Well it's a wee while since the yes and no brigade have ranted at each other on the thread. Though to confess I did find both sides of the picture did have a bit of something for me . I've got a few quid I can either bung in a financial institution and hope there is some thing still...

I agree , it's not as though there was not enough tiles either for I discovered about 1.5 sq mtrs hidden under rubble some 18 months after the job was completed . It's a pity they got skipped with they rubble when a guy cleared all the rubbish up out the garden about 2 years ago . :cry...

The gap at the bottom is my doing ...... where I managed to lever /slide the cover up ... it does/did reach down to the canopy .

Swampy, Those pictures speak a thousand words and some . I think it is identical but just branded different to the one we have. As every thing is almost free I'll set up a platform and try gently easing the whole unit up & on to it once my lass has crawled in the roof void on some...

Thank you very much Swampy, That's what I was after ....... that 5 - 10 mm figure. It looks like I'll have to cut a few long thin wedges and ease the sides away from the chimney frame once I've taken a row of tiles from each side , as there are no visible or accessible fixing screws or...

Nemo mortallium hori sapit ..no man is at all hours wise :lol: . That's one of the probs with the Alzheimer's, you lose track in a matter of seconds or thirds and don't know it as the data bank in the neck top computer is quite empty of data on the subject. It's like playing cards where...

Thanks Swampy , That's what I was afraid of , I managed to take out the whole 3 mm wide run of grouting adjacent to the chimney on either side from top to bottom but couldn't ease the rear side out away from the unit .

I don't think the guy who fitted the kitchen is around ..seems he had lots of people looking for him and the rest of the repair team . Thankfully I can move /have moved the outer lower cover up & down .... Just not quite enough by all accounts :lol: ..

No need to be sarcastic Mister Two Cities .. I thought I'd clicked your link and it took me to putting the pictures where they sat . But it could well be I have crossed my wires again ..it's to do with being on some mind bending medication & the likelihood of having the early onset of...

@ PrenticeBoyofDerry, Hi yet again sorry to be such a pest there is more to this darn chimney than meets the eye. :oops: I think the extractor is supposed to be fixed to the wall at mere 700 mm above the hob. this one is a tad over 780mm , if this is true I can see why the cover might...