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I didn't say they were uninterrupted. How many domestic 13A loads are?

Give an old man a break! I have to say I have worked in and rewired many many 1950s properties and never found original pvc cable.

It's always easy for an incoming Government to blame the outgoing one for all the carp they have been left with. But the Tories did spend huge amounts of wonga on certain areas of the covid situation that should not have been spent. That's just part of their inheritance. So to expect a...

Indeed. So why would they want to destroy it again?

It's not good practice. A double socket loaded with 2 x 3 kW loads wouldn't last long. Best to have a single for each.

Mrs S and I have similar. I'll find humour in stuff like that and she says I'm still an 11 year old in my head! One of the funniest things I ever saw was driving down the M5. Luckily, I was in the passenger seat, able to catch the magnificent spectacle about to unfold before me. In a field on...

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 be exerting slight pressure on one of the buttons?

:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Preferably the house you are proposing to buy...

Assuming the light fittings are all roses. And the wiring system is not the junction box method...

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 supersedes all previous editions as from 1 September 1955. It follows with: Since the issue of the 12th Ed. in May 1950, a supplement dated 1 February 1954...

B69 I feel is relevant. It rambles a bit, but the relevant bits are: Cores of sheathed cables from which the sheath has been removed...shall be enclosed. The enclosure shall be of incombustible material and may be a box complying with B.S.816 or other appropriate British Standard, or an...

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 see if I can find anything in my copy.

In my experience, the wood is a ply wooden back box with dovetail joints. Originally, the faceplate screws would have been woodscrews that would have been driven straight into the backbox. It has been butchered a tad at the top to let in the cables. I can't tell if that is capping or conduit...

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!

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 in Wales and not suffered idiots, but there are those that will cram themselves up your arse whatever speed you do.

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 your current situation does not alter (IE, you continue NOT to suffer any tripping incidents, with the two circuits attached to the one RCBO), it does suggest...

With the title being what it was, I posted my advice so that others who come here can read it.

My usual suggestion to customers with random tripping (after belling out the wiring to make sure it was clear) was to unplug absolutely everything that could be unplugged and switch everything else that couldn't, things like cookers, showers, immersions, off, unless using them. Then once...

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 system is. Even though it isn't. And even though he himself uses it... Change the record, Nige...