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As in all walks of life - there are good and bad. Some people will do as little as possible for as much money as they can extort. For an idea of how it should have worked - I did one last week for a woman selling her house - When asking me for a price, she mentioned a couple of things...

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I remember them well - there's some up for sale on ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Bakelite-lot-three-pin-plugs-light-socket-adapters-plug-extention-/110772283835?pt=UK_Collectables_Vintage_RL&hash=item19ca8ae9bb

Because you haven't got a clue what you are talking about - and asking on here isn't going to help - how do you know that what you will be told will be correct.....we can't agree amongst ourselves half the time. Your knowledge is too limited for what you are talking about doing - it would be...

FFS - Give us a break!! You watch, we'll have John along in a minute telling us how it's a DIY forum and we should be nice and answer all the questions without being judgemental.

Static?

I'm not sure where he's got a single wire with 110V on it from.

Told Ya :)

OK, Rough Guide - If you're gonna do it, you might as well do it right. You need to calculate the maximum demand in the garage. You need to determine the supply earthing system. You need to determine if there are any 'Extraneous Conductive Parts' in the garage. These three things are...

Do you really believe that you won't get 'conflicting' info on this forum?? :) That's like us believing that you're not doing this job yourself! :lol:

....unless it's wired as a star (spider) - then they'll all just have one cable in them. :)

On second thoughts, John, I have to disagree with these two posts: The reason being - this isn't 'Private Messaging' - Ask Doctor Electric This is a Forum - and lots of other people read the replies - so I think it's important to point out what someone has done wrong, as well as...

I agree, to a point, John. I did try to help with the question - without getting on my soapbox (as you know I sometimes do). But it does get a bit annoying, and I can't blame some posters for criticising, when people come on here asking for help after they've done everything wrong......why...

I don't think it is too late. Maybe for this fault - but what other faults might he have missed that just 'switching on' the power hasn't shown up. Maybe with the right criticism he'll have second thoughts and run the tests that he should have done in the first place. Do you think, if...

Maybe, but as I've just posted - there's NO excuse for not doing the relevant dead tests before energising!! The good old 'bang' test........

Thing is, John, if he was doing this for anyone else, he'd be in a bit of bother now - because, regardless of the cost to himself, he'd have to find the fault. Had he done the absolute minimum testing before a cu swap (i.e. Whole Board IR Test), he'd have known there was a fault 2 minutes...

The first thing I would check, if you haven't already, is EVERY ceiling rose/fitting. I did a CU change not so long back where testing revealed a neutral earth fault on lighting - fortunately for me it was in the very first rose that I checked - rose had been screwed back on pinching the...

I don't want to sound harsh, but my immediate thoughts are that you shouldn't be doing this at all. Your questions, and your description of the existing circuit, show s real lack of understanding of how electrical installations are laid out - but no doubt you'll do it anyway. :)

John and Paul - the problem with your suggestions (i.e. the making a kitchen not a kitchen, while you fit the electrics and John's 'replacing a damaged cable...one at a time), is that you are doing what BAS is complaining about - you are trying to make the law fit what you want to do. What I...

Strange that........ There's good old Schedule 4 defining that new fixed cabling or a consumer unit ARE notifiable. Depends how it's worded, doesn't it. Anyway, removal of a circuit isn't notifiable, as you well know.....stop being picky!