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Well it is a horsey coursey type of situation and many permutations. Personally, some will differ - call me old fashioned - with kitchen appliances etc I prefer there to be an easiy recogniseable eassy means of safe disconnection for fire/flood/famine or whatever with reduced likelihood of...

I really enjoyed that comment ;)

Yes I think it would be good or could be good in your situation as I assume your own private use, not in everbodies situation though. I was working in a dental surgery quite a few years back, helping the plumber/heating bods with their electrical side and a few purely electrical bits too. I did...

I have been known in the past to put a battery operated mains failure bleeper on things in the past where it might help - notably for power failure of a flood pump i.e. proprty prone to flood risk and a float triggers a pump to run to get local water down sufficiently but if mains not present...

I think as John said in the OP would be the best answer. Whilst I`ve never considered having an isolator for them I can see the merits so a yes from me. I have done simlar with some emerency lighting - install the first emergency light on a radial after the last lighting of the loop of the...

Murdochcat said: ^^ which is just nonsense If you drilled into a coax or HDMI cable there is zero risk to life. Well I would accept near zero or perhaps even zero itself on a good day but Persons/Livestock/Property for a starter for 10 and then the main possible disadvatage of losing the TV or...

That might be pushing credibility somewhat? but I can see some logic therein!

The bit where I said "Does/Does not" could well be incorrect so I apologise for my error (It was a quick version of what was explained to me by an assessor for a scheme some years back and I took it as correct at the time - not that I`ve never argued with an assessor on a point of what they have...

I have heard that same principle applied to the Electricty at work regulations, yet those regulations only say "You must" or "you must not" they do not say "At work, you must" or "At work, you must not", thus they do not apply only at work but everywhere else too. also every domestic dwelling...

The mind boggles! Ask that electrician if any radial circuit is run and if one fault such as a break in the cpc that might that mean the possibility of an earth fault on one appliance could become an earth fault on several appliances whereas with parallel conductors that one break in one...

Personally, I have always understood it this way. A cable is a cable, no matter what voltage and current it carries or is capable of doing thus. Irrespective of whether it is low voltage (includes "Mains Voltage" or extra low voltage (including signal cables and tv/radio and other communication...

"Low voltage" includes mains voltages. If you mean "Extra Low Voltage" is this excluded from requirements? "Whether or not, are you happy to place cables in a place that might render them to be more easily damaged?

Why can they be run anywhere outside the zones?

Yes I agree that some have links fitted or supplied and sometimes you might have the opportunity to use them as I have suggested but sometimes you might not be that lucky. Either way I just wanted to know if anybody was happier by ensuring both ends making the equivalent of a twice size Live...

So does anybody think that a link together at the cooker end might be beneficial therefore worth a consideration or not at all or alternatively not enough to be worthy of a consideration anyway? I am trying to see to what extent a 1.5 HR flex is considered as OK or close to the call on for a...

So, if both ends of the flex (parallel lengths of conductors) were connected together rather than just at the cooker outlet plate but also links in the cooker terminals end making it , effectively 2 x 3.0mm csa on the Lives with a 1.5 cpc would anybody be more concerned or less concerned with a...

Well not just traditional/historical. The way I understands it is - Blackpool, Manchester, Liverpool etc etc are still in Geographical Lancashire. Where the Boundaries were changed then it was only the Administration Boundaries not the Geographical Boundaries' Reminds me of a few years back...

Exactly, they should not. If those are the only two alternatives and no other is possible, then in my mind, exactly as you said. Both options render them as unfit for purpose. Reminds me of something a few years back, "Women Empowering Women" or something like that as it was known at the time...

Yes indeed, and yes they could be if the designer 9and installer?) is happy about the resilience. One such example could be one decent metal conduit with a multitude of individual conductors for individual circuits. Is resliance assurred? is the conductor the correct size consider all scenarios.

Indeed yes