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Quote Does the house have a single RCD in the consumer unit protecting all the circuits? Yes a 30ma and when it trips it puts everything off in the house bar the lights. It's very annoying when the PC switches off! There is one socket which I converted from a FSU which fed the old...

I'm sorry ban-all-sheds but your post has completely gone over my head I'm embarrassed to say unless it's to advise me to get a car port, :oops: and I definitely don't understand French

I appreciate exactly what you are saying coljack! But this RCD is for equipment outside the house! As you may recall you participated in a thread I had running on this subject below a few days ago The RCD adaptor is for use with a lead which is fed outside the house to charge the...

I have just recently moved to a house with a RCD fitted on the main fuseboard. I have never had experience of modern RCDs before. I have a portable RCD adaptor which you plug into a socket just like an ordinary adaptor, and the last twice I tested it according to the manufacturer's...

ban-all-sheds Everybody tells me to sell the car and use taxis. I stopped smoking and eating fatty foods. This is my only pleasure in life :wink: The car will be colder now as I don't have a garage at this place I moved to! I also thought you might to know in relation to the help you...

benard green I thank you for your response. The lead from the charger to the positive battery post terminal is fully insulated right up to the eyelets that attach to the battery clamp bolts. To anybody else who is interested. This battery charger can be left switched on for months at a...

bernardgreen The leads from the battey charger to the battery itself will be fed from inside the bulkhead of the car and attached to the battery itself by eyelets to the battery clamp bolts and a quick release plug and lead supplied by the manufacturer of the battery charger, as an...

PrenticeBoyofDerry I'm sorry if I haven't made myself clear :oops: My intention is to charge the car battery in the car, by running an extension cable from inside the house (plugged into an RCD adaptor) having the socket of the extension inside the boot of the car and plugging the battery...

What is the lightest rating of cable I can use to make up an extension plug and socket to provide current for the following ONLY please and will it require an earth wire?:- http://www.calamander.co.uk/batteryconditioners/ctek3600.htm Also will it be safe to use this extension outdoors...

dextrous Sorry if I picked you up wrong :oops: Am grateful anyway for advice!

Thank you again colJack The door has to be lifted out of the slots I believe according to the design there could have been hinges of one kind or another, and they might have deteriorated in the course of time. I believe this type of meter box is antediluvian :lol: In case anybody is...

Thanks to everybody who answered my post. dextrous It was a cheap solution I was seeking. These boxes cost about £80 I believe :roll:

I have just edited my post andentered a web site with exactly the same box as mine. It is the filthy one at thebottom LHS of the web page.

I have never had an outside gas meter before, so this is a genuine question, having just moved house. The drop-down door of my outside gas meter box, which I believe to be many, many years old, has plastic ties holding the door on and when you open the door it just clatters down, which is...

I recently had a new bathroom installed and the WC is the new-fangled type (to me anyway) which has a button thing for flushing the WC fitted on the top of the cistern. It in two parts, and I am led to believe one is for a short flush and the other is the full works. When the cistern is...

Thank you for the prompt replies to my post.

I think I may be posting in the wrong forum. If so my apologies. Where is the best place to fit a battery operated smoke alarm in a two-bedroom semi please. I am moving from a flat after umpteen years, hence this question :oops:

I thank you very much for setting my mind at rest and to everybody who contributed to this thread. I was under the impression You were only allowed to take a connection from an UNUSED FUSEWAY on the consumer unit :oops:

I am sorry for supplying the wrong information. I said the MCB in question was 15amps. This is not the case. It is 30 amps. It says on the MCBs supplying the upstairs and downstairs sockets:- NB30. 30amp Type 2 - 240V. 240V ac 50Hz. BS5486 Pt 13. Underneath every MCB except...

Thank you I will take the camera round if I can find it. A lot of stuff has been packed up in anticipation of the move :oops: