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    securespark replied to the thread Fuse box tripping?.
    Just had another look at your consumer unit. The cover looks like it is pressed up against the test buttons for the 6A RCBOs. Could it...
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    securespark replied to the thread Crack on external wall.
    Preferably the house you are proposing to buy...
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    securespark replied to the thread Fuse box tripping?.
    Assuming the light fittings are all roses. And the wiring system is not the junction box method...
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    securespark replied to the thread What’s going on here?.
    Sure I've seen ply...were the bases of the boxes ply? Anyhow, talking of cable, I dug out my 13th Ed regs. It begins by saying the 13th...
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    securespark replied to the thread What’s going on here?.
    B69 I feel is relevant. It rambles a bit, but the relevant bits are: Cores of sheathed cables from which the sheath has been...
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    securespark replied to the thread What’s going on here?.
    One can understand 1965/6, but you'd think once the regs kick in, 7/8 would be fully compliant. I'll have a butcher's in the morning and...
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    securespark reacted to SUNRAY's post in the thread What’s going on here? with Thanks Thanks.
    The whole estate built 1965-68 is wooden backboxes and very limited lighting CPC (only to 3 ceiling roses in order to provide the shaver...
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    securespark replied to the thread What’s going on here?.
    In my experience, the wood is a ply wooden back box with dovetail joints. Originally, the faceplate screws would have been woodscrews...
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    securespark replied to the thread One circuit 2 switches?.
    It would look better if the switch had a fake split down the middle to look like two rockers... Then my OCD would go away!
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    30 is a limit, not a target and a lot of the time you're in a 30, you're doing 20 or below anyway, so what's the biggie? We've done 20...
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    securespark replied to the thread Fuse box tripping?.
    Well, the only thing you've altered there is you have taken the load off one lighting RCBO and placed it on the other lighting RCBO. If...
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    securespark replied to the thread Fuse box tripping?.
    With the title being what it was, I posted my advice so that others who come here can read it.
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    securespark replied to the thread Fuse box tripping?.
    My usual suggestion to customers with random tripping (after belling out the wiring to make sure it was clear) was to unplug absolutely...
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    securespark replied to the thread The same old nige....
    I was reading something about how, whenever Reform lost in a by-election, he would bang on about postal voting fraud and how abused the...
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