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Thank you thank you thank you. I presume therefore that I just treat the banded neutral as live and everything else is the colour it is?

Hi, very quick question. I have a light fitting which needed to be replaced. Took it out today making note of all connections etc but had a family emergency which meant I could not put the new fitting up. It's now dark and we have no lights, rather than fiddling in the dark is it safe just to...

Hi, quick question for someone who knows: I have heard that it is OK to have waste from bathroom sink and bath running at a slight upward incline for a short distance. Is this right or must it be running constanstly horizontal/down? If it is OK does anyone know the maximum permissible...

Hi, I am tiling a kitchen and bathroom floor, both onto concrete. The bathroom floor is in part of the house which is over 300 years old so no DPM, the kitchen is only 35 years old and has a partial DPM but only about one third of the floor for some reason. The rooms aren't showing signs of...

Good news, rang the electricity company this morning and they owe me 500 pounds which should hopefully give me the money to upgrade the CU! The reason there is another CU in the house is that it used to be two houses. I am turning it back into two houses so that I can stay here and look after...

I'm just over the suspension bridge out towards Portishead - think part of your message was deleted though.

You are totally right, it is TT, I think the cut tail is the neutral from the old storage heaters which are no longer in use. The CU on the left is the only one which is in use. I guess I definitely need to replace the RCD and get the whole thing checked out. Is it a waste of time just to...

Hi, I have just checked continuity across all the wires and I am getting positives on N1/N3 L1/L3 E1/E3 So this is the ring and the second wire (which for some reason I convinced myself was causing the problem) is the spur. But I am also getting cross continuity on L1/N3 N1/L1...

Ok, have a multimeter and have taken a couple of photos. Used multimeter to check continuity, the wire in the middle of the socket is shorting somewhere along the line. Any advice gratefully received, otherwise am going to take the box out of the wall and see if I can work out where this wire...

Thanks for that, I have checked the box out pretty carefully. After speaking to my Father it seems that the "push to test" on the RSC hasn't been working for years so there may be a bigger problem than I thought. Sounds like an earth fault. Does this sound like major work? How I wish I had left...

Hi, I hope one of you will be able to help me. I live in one of those houses where you start doing one thing and 100 more problems appear. Yesterday decided to replace a socket which had a worrying discolouration (looked like burning) around the pin holes. It's on a ring main, looks like a spur...