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    Add RCD to Shed supply and update

    if you want to improve the circuit and fit an outside socket, then i would recommend terminating the incoming cable from the fuse spur into a metal enclosure fitted with a 16amp rcbo, then from there a cable to your sockets and spur for lighting.
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    Add RCD to Shed supply and update

    If you removed all the original wiring and replaced with new, then of course its a new circuit as there wouldn't of been a circuit there, as you removed it!! Once again, replacing the wiring makes it a new circuit so will require rcd protection. Just bite the bullet and either get an rcbo...
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    Add RCD to Shed supply and update

    Except bs7288 explicitly says that rcd spurs cannot be fitted to a circuit which does not already have additional protection already fitted, ie they cannot be fitted unless the circuit is already rcd/rcbo protected. it isn't an improvement fitting an rcd spur standalone as they do not offer...
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    Summerhouse/Outbuilding wiring thoughts?

    From January 2019, BS 7288 is NOT listed in BS 7671:2018 Appendix 1 This is down to their product standard not stating they are suitable for additional protection, and requiring an upstream 30mA RCD to provide this function, if a device to BS 7288 does not provide additional protection then it...
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    Summerhouse/Outbuilding wiring thoughts?

    Also bare in mind, you cannot install a bs7288 rcd spur onto a non rcd/rcbo protected circuit anyway, so will defeat the purpose of buying one.
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    BBQ Extractor

    whats the plan for the boiler flue, all the gases will be trapped under the new polycarbonate roof and be blown all over your guests etc and through your windows
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    Which 3 Wires Out Of These 6

    Sorry, but i'm strugglng to understand what the issue is? There are no 'excess' wires, just a simple feed in/feed out circuit- just join live to red, neutral to black and earth to earth
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    Additional sockets in garage, fused spur beside Consumer Unit?

    Apparently not for additional protection according to the authors of bs7288, why this is, i don't know One of the less well publicised changes to the 18th was the requirement that devices for protection against electric shock by ADS now need to be suitable for isolation (531.1.1) This may...
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    Additional sockets in garage, fused spur beside Consumer Unit?

    You don't, they are obsolete pieces of equipment which serve no purpose
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    Additional sockets in garage, fused spur beside Consumer Unit?

    Except they are not, bs7288 clearly states scrd's cannot be used standalone unless there is already a rcd or rcbo protecting the circuit, as they do not provide additional protection or safe isolation. This has been the case since january 2019 when they were removed from bs7671 appendix 1 as...
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    Basic Fibre BB questions please.

    It looks to me as you have a 5 pair cable coming in from somewhere on the bottom right, which then has a cat5e using the brown pair onto the incoming blue to provide a line somewhere in the property, the other 3x cat5e's are all just joined together using the spare krone strip terminals as...
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    Removing old tele west cable point

    They are called torx security screws not nintendo, nintendo just happen to use them google torx security bits to get a set of ends suitable
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    New socket for bedroom TV

    indeed, install a switch fuse spur, and connect to the load side and all will be good, as protected by rcd
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    New socket for bedroom TV

    They are no longer recognised by bs7671 as suitable devices, and are now an obsolete product. BS7288 it's self states rcd sockets and spurs can only be fitted on a circuit which already has rcd protection. Their design offers no additional protection nor safe isolation. They have been removed...
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    New socket for bedroom TV

    no.1 is the only solution, with the additional socket connected after the rcd. rcd sockets cannot be fitted by themselves, they can only be connected to an already rcd protected circuit, as they do not provide additional protection or safe isolation.
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    Installing Lightwave Smart Switch

    Having had a rethink, its not going to work with wiring as such and its a software config. The hallway switch needs the twin and earth brown and blue connecting to live and switch live only, and in the software make it a master. The 3 gang dimmer, leave the switch for the 2 way empty and safely...
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    Installing Lightwave Smart Switch

    That lightwave dimmer has 1x live and 3x switch lives out, i can't see how it will ever work as it's not a 2 way lightwave dimmer unless you use 1 core ie grey into a connector at the slave end connected to the light switch live, and then the live into L and program it on the app to match the...
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    What is this in loft?

    Its a centrifugal inline fan, badly installed, nothing else.
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    Impact of induction hob on electrics

    Why would you want a torque set, even when you torque to the manufacturers spec, the cables are still loose in the mcb terminal, normally its 3x duggas from the impact driver to get them tight
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    Moving telephone socket, junction box or extension?

    Are you still pushing the notion that cat5e is not suitable? It's been used for donkeys for phone/broadband lines in offices, and not once has it caused problems, and before you say it, there is no crosstalk, call degradation or loss of speed ever. Cat5e also used to be used as a data line and...
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