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Hi I’m replacing my floor in my downstairs toilet as the existing solid wood flooring was bowed and ruined due to a water leak some time ago. I’ve pulled up the existing solid wood boards and the chip board subfloor underneath is covered in mould, although it is dry now. My plan is to cut out...

I have had a look inside the light to see if the hole can be enlarged, but there is lots of metal moulding on the inside, and the gu10 lampholder is in the way of making a bigger hole, or even a new hole. Also unfortunately the glands can’t be screwed together directly.

In this case there was a fence post 60cm away, so I decided to use that, although I like your idea of using post stumps. That would have been hard for me though because the spike light is in the middle of some garden bushes, and I didn’t fancy crawling around in there! I could swap the metal...

I was thinking of using this at the light end of the conduit.

That’s the back of the light.

It’s an outside spike light. The hole in the light is right at the edge, so the size can’t be increased, and I don’t think I could make another hole, as the base has lots of mouldings that the gu10 lampholder is attached to.

It’s a spike light, and I haven’t found any that look like I could fit a 20mm gland to them. I used the conduit because the 230v flex would run across the ground for about 60cm, so I thought it would be best to protect it a bit with conduit.

Hi I’ve got a flexible plastic conduit coming out of a junction box, where it is terminated with flexible conduit glands. On the other end, a 0.75mm flex cable comes out of it, and goes into a light. The 0.75mm flex is factory fitted to the light, and unfortunately it is not possible to...

Thanks for the explanation, my house has a voltage of 240v, so the amount of voltage drop should be acceptable.

Unfortunately most of the SWA is under the communal parking lot, about 15m, so not much chance of pulling a new cable through. There is also an alarm cable running to the garage with the SWA, so I checked if there was a conduit running to the garage, but there isn’t. Presumably there should have...

It’s probably too late to talk to the developers about that non-compliance:rolleyes:. If I ever get a chance I will replace to cable, but there’s not much I can do about the cable at the moment.

Ok I will go ahead and move the supply to the non RCD side, but just leave it with the B16. I would prefer a larger cable because I would like to run a welder, and have better heating in the winter. Also I have noticed that the lights temporarily dim when I use my mitre saw or other high power...

Hi I’ve got a new build house (2006), which I’ve moved into recently. It has a 16th edition Wylex split load board, and currently the 2.5mm SWA supplying the garage is on a B16 MCB, on the RCD side of the board. At the garage end, there is a garage consumer unit, with an RCD, and B6 MCB for the...

I was going to put a support on the other side of the wall to prevent it pushing away when I screw into it. It is definitely a timber stud wall.

Thanks for the replies-There is a cupboard under the stairs but it’s plasterboarded all around so no easy access to under the stairs unfortunately. Why the studs have so much movement- I would guess that they might go from the ground floor straight to the upstairs ceiling, instead of there being...

Hi all One of the walls on the side of a staircase is plasterboard stud wall, which runs all the way from the ground floor to the upstairs ceiling. I noticed a significant crack in the caulk between the side of the staircase and this wall, and found the reason is that the plasterboard wall is...

Not much space is about 2cm. I can't see anything about clearance in the instructions.

Hi I'm going to install downlights in a fairly narrow hallway, so I planned to have a line of them in the middle. Unfortunately, there is a plastic water pipe (central heating I think) running down the middle too. I have checked whether the downlights will fit under this pipe, and they do fit...

Thanks for the replies. My downlights will be by LAP too, so I'll see what the instructions say.

Hi, Are there any regulations about the distance downlights need to be from joists? In my case, the downlights are fire rated, and will be fitted with LED lamps. Thanks for any advice!