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why cant u have a gas vent with a fly screen?

Hi I want to box in a boiler and put a cupboard door on the front its a combi does it need a vent on the cupboard ? If so can the vent be on the inside or outside wall and how close can the vent be on the outside wall to the flue the flue comes up about 300mm then out the wall on an elbow...

Hi i have a ceiling in a garage to insulate, board and skim there are rooms above it. The garage is aprox 5m x 5m and already boarded and skimmed. I have 2 options but not sure which will be best for cost and for thermal properties. 1, lower ceiling with timber, apply 4 inch rockwool...

so does the vinyl need to be stuck down around the perimeter with adhesive will silicone not suffice?

Hi I will be laying vinyl floor to a bathroom over 6mm ply. I believe the best way to do this on domestic properties is to loose lay but I want to silicone the perimeter. will this be ok with heat exchange causing bubbling etc?

Hi Guys, Im creating a wet room on a timber floor but Im not going to be installing a wet room tray, I want to create the fall and set the waste in the floor and tank the room and tile etc. Whats the best way to approach it when not using a wetroom tray, what materials are best to use etc...

I cant see any fcu anywhere

and its class 1

well it is a conductive part of equipment which can be touched and which is not normally live, but which can become live under fault conditions

Ok well considering I havent really inspected the circuit, Im presuming a worst case scenario of a radial circuit with the section of cable for the lights being 1.5mm csa and then probably installation reference method 100 to 103 will give a cable rating of 16 amps with a mcb of 30amps is not...

I didnt say I didnt know the answer did I? I just wanted clarification to what I already thought

yea I was skimming round the sockets so turned the mcb off that was labelled kitchen sockets and the sockets were dead but so were the kitchen lights! The breaker was a 30amp with a 30ma rcbo, she wanted to know how the best way to put the kitchen lights on the down stairs lighting circuit...

and regarding the above post its something I came across whilst plastering somebodies kitchen today

For your information Ive just done my 17th edition and part p and so im still finding my feet I sont undertake anything im not comfortable with and work alongside other electricians when I need to nothing wrong with trying to further my knowledge by asking questions on various scenarios is there???

is it acceptable to have kitchen lights as part of the ring to a kitchen power circuit with rcd protection and a 30 amp mcb?

its a wet room so i know in the regs it makes the zone larger to 1.2m wrapping around a partition wall, so a key to lock the cupboard would be ok then? the shower goes right upto the partition wall

Hi does an electric towel warmer which is painted white need to have supplementary bonding or does the earth off the element suffice?

yea one electrician is saying it is ok because it is closed off via the door and is not immiediatley accessible but then another is saying it is not

Hi can a socket be fitted in a cupboard of a down stairs shower room to power a tumble dryer if there is a door that can be closed when the tumble dryer is in use? there would be no access to the socket unless you pulled the tumble dryer out.

thanks what do you mean by vac relief ? air admittance valve?!?