Recent content by supermoto1962

Thank you for those of you with positive replies (chivers67). It is appreciated. I never mentioned that a professional scuba diver was, or is qualified to connect anything electrical it was merely to impart that i'm not an idiot. bernardgreen - During my IT career i installed miles and miles...

What a condescending response. Professional in all forms of welding & fabrication, IT professional for over 25 years and a professional scuba Instructor. What do you do again that makes you so superior that you think i can't follow some instruction to connect some wiring to various...

Hello Could someone please join the dots for me so i can install these two LED batten lights into my garage? Consumer unit is already in place but nothing connected other than the mains in. It has 32, 16 and one 6amp circuit breakers. The batten lights have blue and brown fly leads. I would...

Hi Thanks for the reply. Are you saying that there should be 240v volts present or not present? Regards

Hello I am having a problem with my central heating boiler and would appreciate some urgent expert advice. I assume the pilot light is working as when the timer cuts in i can see the flame through the small window on the front of the boiler. In normal operation i would here a whoosh and the...

Hello Can anyone tell me a good, reliable, cheap supplier for a lower (freezer) door seal please. Model FFA90P Regards Nick

Hi Looking for a spare part or whole shower unit. Part is the on/off handle. Part No 077-0107 Or where can i get the part from?

i'm looking for some windsor ivory wall tiles (J255A) 25x33cm to finish off a job. does anybody have any or could you make any pointers as to where i might be able to try? have tried all B&Q's in area. thanks

Hi Looking at tiling a batroom for a friend but the two side walls are uneven. Floor (which is level) to ceiling height is high on the left and runs down to the right. Wall is about 4m in length and the is a 3.5cm drop from one side to the other. Should i make sure that i have two thirds...

Hello Wanting to run a new line from the Consumer Unit into a room that will have two pendant lights, each to be turned on/off/dimmed from a new face plate that has two dimmer controls, one for each pendant light. Have run the cable from the CU into the room and down into the 1st pendant...

Many thanks for that. Will check out the WIKI

Hello I have recently had a new consumer unit installed and now i want to run in a new lighting circuit for downstairs. Would i be best installing by the 'loop-in' method? I take it this refers to taking a cable from the CU to the first ceiling rose position and then looping to each ceiling...

Cable run is 43cm in from the lefthand wall in a vertical chanell. At a height of 56cm from the floor the run will head right for 46cm to be in position for the cooker. Maximum depth of chanell will be approx 3.5cm This run will end up behind kitchen cabinets Will the FCU be positioned...

Hello Putting a new run of cable from CU to cooker (3kw). Placing into vertical chanel to l/hand of cooker and then going towards the right at about half the height of the cooker. What do i terminate into behind the cooker? And from there how do i connect to the cooker point? Cheers

Once again Many, many thanks. Are there any courses, as a novice, that i could go on for domestic wiring installations and become certified?