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What and are you intending to power from the generator in the event of a power cut, and how are you intended to achieve that? What is the make and model of your generator? There are all kinds of issues (and regulations) for using standby/backup generators safely. You can't rely on the...

The 2nd DB could have more circuits/loads (but is there any point in using a 2nd one if you still need to manually regulate the load/switch things off when running on the generator). There still wouldn't be any need to use a plug with greater capacity than the output of the generator to connect...

Why do you need a generator if there's a socket in the shed already?

I've only installed one of each, both customer supplied, the Iboost was factory fitted to the new cylinder (Megaflow eco?) and the CT clamp is wireless but with a battery transmitter, so easy install but really bad design if you ask me (bateries onyl last a year..) The Solic was not as robust a...

Some people go to work all day and there's no base load aside from the fridge. Others have larger solar installations. Hot water is used in summer too when the PV is providing more. There's no feed-in tarrif for many so anything that's used to heat water instead of flowing back to the grid is...

The solic 200's are £140 on amazon, where are you getting your iboosts?

A Solic 200 https://www.earthwiseproducts.co.uk/solic-200/ (there's others that do the same thing) will divert excess solar to an immersion heater

I know. And now the good Aico battery ones are sold out!

There's about 1.3million private homes in Scotland, rented property has needed interlinked smoke alarms for years. Still plenty to do though!

eh? at least try spelling your rather poor attempt at an insult correctly

If you have nice cornice or skirting boards simply overboarding won't work. It is possibe to solidify individual areas of damaged lath and plater internal walls with expanding foam - not too much though or it will push the wall out. You can also cut out 'bouncy' sections and just 'board that...

Often cornice, sometimes over a foot high. Like I said "EVEN IF IT WAS SOMEHOW CONSIDERED A WALL" but you do get buildings where the walls are also the ceiling - search "a frame buildings" Simply call them wiring zones instead of safe zones and you help to stop the spread of the wrong term

The zone regulation refers to 150mm from the top of the wall, not 150mm below the ceiling. Even if the vaulted ceiling was somehow considered a wall it would still be permitted by the 'corner' zone (150mm from an 'angle formed'). You would have to go up at the gables though, if the cables...

I agree with eric, it would be downgrading! If I were you I'd be gtting rid of that asbestos box as a priority. Unless you have the appropriate test equipment and know how to use it then I sugest getting an electrician.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-standards-technical-handbook-2019-domestic/ 4.8.5 access to manual controls "Where sockets are concealed, such as to the rear of white goods in a kitchen, separate switching should be provided in an accessible position, to allow appliances to be...

Accessible isolation switches are required by building regs in Scotland. You can get 3x 32A grid switches on one 6-gang row in Click Minigrid range https://www.electrical2go.co.uk/minigrid-250v-32a-dp-switch-module-md032wh.html.

You also get glued floating t&g chipboard floor with no mechanical fixings, not that I think the ease of finding floor/ceiling joists has anything to do with the regs under discussion.

I could find the joists in any floor or ceiling without too much bother, but most DIYers may not. Anyway the regs don't make any distinction. It's you who is scraping the bottom of the barrel by suggesting the intent of the regs don't cover cables which pass above or below joists but not...

The point is that BS7288 accessories are not recognised as means of fault, or additonal protection in BS7671, and indeed are not mentioned in BS7671 at all. The BS(EN) numbers for RCDs which are permitted are listed.

Traditonally floorboards are nailed through the tongue and there is no specific indication of the joist location. Sometimes the position of joists overhead are indicated by cracks or subtle differences in the ceiling, or more easily by tapping or using a joist finder (more so than floors) so I...