Recent content by Zuru67

I was quite surprised at the conductor size John, but hey :D I will reverse the way and as you say run the main to the face plate and run a small 1.5 back to the back box. Cheers adam

The T+E was installed in 1998 the earth is quite large and screwed into the earthing point on the back box. I need to run a piece of 6491X or similar from the back box to the front plate. I was looking at using 1.5mm2 but it seems the T+E was more like a 4mm which is why the earth connector on...

Hi John, I mean that the terminal where the existing earth is connected from the incoming feed to the back box is too small to have another piece of 6491X to be fitted into it, there is no room. Cheers adam

Hi, I am replacing some light sockets and power sockets at home and having initially looked at one of the wall single switches I can see that the faceplate (plastic) is not earthed, but the incoming supply has an earth which is terminated into the metal back box. The new face plates that I...