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Those two outside ones are the ones most likely with batteries, the 2 other internal ones are unlikely to have batteries and are probably powered from the panel directly (1 is probably just a speaker too). Can you post some pictures of the internal ones? That way we can tell you if they are...

Turning off the circuit breaker, opening the panel and disconnecting the battery will be enough to decommission the panel. However if you have external sirens, these will have their own battery which will cause them to continue to go off until either a set period (20-30min) or until those...

I'm guessing this magic wand was probably just a tone generator/detector to find the pairs... but who knows.

I have seen some documents stating that there has to be a hand basin with hot water available, but whether this applies in your case I'm not sure. Perhaps this will be dictated by your local authority when/if you need to notify them of the intended repurpose of the garage? Assuming you have also...

What is the purpose of the conduit? where is it going to? The only real options are putting it underground away from accidental damage, or using some cable designed to be clipped to walls (but its still visible and ugly) or using some metal/galvanized conduit. Perhaps there is an alternative...

You can quote and reply in the same post btw. As for the next step, you need to speak to your insurance company and explain what they did/didnt do and that your not satisfied with the testing (or lack of) that happened, and if they can have someone else actually do the testing so that you/they...

If the 3rd party electrician didn't use any tester then I'm not sure how he could report back to them saying it "passed". What did he actually test/do to the cooker? Or was you not present throughout his inspection/testing?

Was this actually a sky engineer or a OpenReach/BT one? If you can get some more info on what he actually did and some pictures that would help. I'm pretty sure a sky engineer wouldn't (or shouldn't) be fitting a master socket as this is BT's property and should only be done by them or...

Never heard of any telephone sockets causing any phones to blow (not that it couldn't happen in theory). Did he replace the existing BT master socket with a new one? As for knowing if it will be easy to sort..., unfortunately without knowing how these are wired up wrong we cant say. However...

Did you not explain what you wanted when you asked him to do some work for you? Usually issues like this are just due to lack of communication. Equally the opposite could of happened where they bought and fitted new valves and customer says the old ones were perfectly fine.

You have two options now, 1. call out an electrician to troubleshoot and put right or 2. start troubleshooting. For the troubleshooting, you say you have 3 sets of wires going to that socket assuming this is 2 for the ring and 1 is a spur. Separate each set of wires and put a single set of...

Looking at the installation manual it says "The electrician must install a dedicated 30 milliamp RCD or use an existing RCD." which is probably just their way of saying this must be protected by an RCD.

Either method can be used and each has its own merits depending on what routes you have available for cables. However there is more to it that just fitting the spots. You need to ensure your complying with regs in terms of fire, moisture getting into the void, whether there's insulation above...

If you are only adding 1 single or double socket then unfused will be ok. Make sure you use 2.5mm cable though

It does you are right bas but as they mentioned 2 wires I assume they were on about the live/neutral from the fitting (although one should never assume with this forum).

bas I interpreted the two wires in the 'loop' section was referring to the light fitting the way they loop around the strain clips as they are the only 2 wires that could refer to (I also made it clear that it was loop clips not terminals). However I guess its best to double check to avoid any...

That's the ones but you will need a couple of 4 lever ones and a 5 lever one or could just use all 5 lever etc... but it all depends which ones you have and space available. It probably would be best to get the installers basic kit as this covers all the requirements for this project and gives...

Ok it looks like that fitting is meant to be used without the ceiling rose and with the use of a terminal block. you could use a choc block but if you can get hold of some maintenance free connectors like wago terminals then this is by far the best choice. However if that black cover goes over...

As Simon says if its the ring then its best to incorporate the new socket into the ring. If there's not enough slack you could extend the cable with something like wago connectors. If you spur from it then you should use a fused spur. Also sleeve those earth wires (untwist too if extending the...

Did you not get anything else with this except the hanging part? If not I assume they thought you would either buy something new or just be using the existing ceiling rose. Yes, remove the brown and blue onto those loop clips (they are a form of strain relief from the terminals) and then do the...