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Digging out enough space for a timber plug and cutting one to size sounds like even more effort than drilling/plugging/screwing to the...

Yeah. Pretty sure the screws were either 3mm or 3.5mm and the wall plugs were the "yellow" size.

The nails in cable clips are suppposed to be masonary nails. However, my experiance was that the masonary in my property was not...

For an appliance connected to an outlet box by a non-fixed cable, this seems pretty obvious to me, the outlet box is the point, the...

I cynically suspect manufacturers who say this are trying to work around the plugs and sockets safety regulations. If they say it is...

What tarrif are you on? Prices will vary slightly with where you are in the country, but with a postcode of SY21 7EF, "Octopus flux"...

You will need to provide overcurrent protection for the "submains" to the different buildings. I see basically two options. 1. A...

I picked up a Tenma (Farnell own brand) 72-9400 (appears to be a rebadged uni-t UT501) one at work (A university) some years back so I...

Megger are the company who made the first portable insulation test meters, and the term Megger became synonomous with an insulation test...

Because they are understood to mean the same thing

Others may disagree but I'd stick with 2.5 for socket wiring. I doubt the current changes will be the last ones the installation sees.

Looks like everything is RCD protected.

For no RCD protection at all on an installation in a house I'd expect at least. C2 - no RCD protection tor sockets reasonablly expected...

If you are following the electrical safety councils guidance then, with the possible exception of upper floor flats, no RCD protection...

23p each doesn't seem too horrific to me. https://cpc.farnell.com/kauden/lzh5e-10/rj45-plug-cat5e-p-through-10pk/dp/CN22673