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How best can the SWA be fed without causing problems like the one that you described (the RCD in the house taking down all of the circuits connected to it?)

Henley block - that's the one. I'm also considering putting in an in line water heater which draws 3.7Amps. As this won't be in constant use however, I'm hoping it won't trip any MCB's? I know this will be the max that the 4mm SWA can handle. I also forgot to mention that the SWA is laying...

At the moment, the SWA is not being fed by anything. There are however 2 options open on it's feed. 1. Can be fed from the house's CU via a 30Amp MCB. 2. The mains supply inside the house is connected to a black box (I can't remember what they are called but it works almost as a junction...

Sorry, will make it clearer. The outbuilding is at the end of the garden. The CU in the outbuilding is approx 35 meters away from the CU in the house. The cable supplying the outbuilding CU is a 4mm SWA cable. The 12 meters that I mentioned was the distance of the electric heater from the CU...

Hi all, I've had an outbuilding/office built at the end of my garden and am thinking of installing some electric heaters out there. The outbuilding has it's own RCD protected consumer unit and having calculated it, a 2kw heater, 12 meters away from the consumer unit requires a 1mm cable...

My cousin had an extension built a little while ago and I'm not sure if it's the done thing but the builders laid down a set of 4" plastic down pipes into the concrete slab for things like electrics and water pipes. (By downpipes, I mean the type that are used as WC wate pipes). They also...

Hi, thanks for that..... 1) The windows are made up of a wooden frame on top on a wooden sill and then an aluminium window unit is placed inside the wooden frame. There are no upvc parts to the windows or frames. As it's a bay window, the angles where the windows meet are where the wooden...

Hi all, the upstairs bay window has a large patch of damp under it. After investigation, I can see that the windows frame sills on the outside (which are made of wood) have been pulled apart and there is a gap between the frame sills at either sides of the bay and the one at the front of the...

I get exactly that issue too - I have the older style Aluminium double glazed windows and the V cup that you talk about has basically been sheered away by the pointy bit on the window. It won't now pull the window back into the frame fully. Is there any way of replacing this V cup or fixing the...

Hi all, I had a new kitchen fitted about 2 years ago and rather than connecting the ducting to the hood before fixing the hood to the wall, the fitter screwed the hood to the wall and tried connecting the ducting to the hood at the end. The problem is that there is very little space at the...

Thanks for all of the replies, the cameras basically come with a 'wall wart' type of plug which plugs into a socket. I'm guessing from all of the replies that this is safe to do? Thanks again.

Hi all, I'm looking to install a residential wireless CCTV camera where the camera hangs down from the ceiling. I need a socket to power a camera with but do not have any power sockets in the loft from where to take an extenion and power the camera from. I do however have the upstairs...