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French wiring regulations are actually FAR FAR stricter than the UK in terms of who can do what. Their regulations are completely different in a whole variety of other ways too. Just be VERY careful you could wind up invalidating your building insurance and possibly facing prosecution...

Normally, Swiss circuits are rated 16amps. There is no fuse in the plug, that's just the maximum load that it can carry. If you fit a plug with a 13amp fuse it will give roughly the same level of protection as the swiss plug connected to a swiss 16A circuit.

I have had the same thing with my MacBook pro. If you're using it while charging use the cable connected to the power adaptor, rather than the little snap on plug that lets you plug the power brick straight into the wall. It seems the cable provides a connection to the earth while the snap...

A few things : 1) It's perfectly legal for an appliance manufacturer to fit a BS1363 to CEE 7 (UK Plug to Schuko/Europlug) adaptor to any product, provided that it's permanently fixed to the plug and can only be removed with the use of a tool. That snap on plug is completely acceptable. They...

Also worth baring in mind that you'll need certification to get reconnected by EDF after a major upgrade. They can be a LOT more fussy on the contenenant about electrican's qualifications. As in, there are places you can end up in front of a judge for modifying a fuse box. I know someone...

There are international and local differences in earthing systems. It sounds like a "TT" supply i.e. there is no connection between your supply neutral and the local earth, which would be provided via ground rods. These supplies are also used in the UK, just not generally in urban areas...

Most countries allow sockets in the bathroom, but they also require them to be heavily RCD protected. The old shaver socket requirement in the UK and Ireland is rather out of date and pre-dates RCDs. Also, our regulations are rather contradictory. We'd faint at the thought of a light...

I'd say find a local electrical shop, a small old-style one, they'll help you no problem. It's not particularly difficult to wire a CEE 7/7 plug. You might need to be shown once though. Ireland actually used European style 16A plugs and sockets at one stage. So, they're still mentioned in...

You may find that some of the older ones don't have that mechanism and can be held up. Depends on the age of the installation. However, that is really dangerous! The place could have burned down.

Those cooker connection units can no longer be fitted under Irish regs. *All* sockets rated less than 32A must be RCD protected, so it effectively outlawed them. Any sockets in kitchens thesedays are usually fed from 20A radial circuits and are all RCD protected. (We've slightly...

Something in your heating system's clearly faulty. It could be a leaky pipe that's dripping water onto a pump or motorised valve or something. Basically, it's picking up current flowing to earth. Get the installer back to sort it out. RCDs will blow if there's a leakage to earth...

If this is just recently happening. It sounds like one of the storage heaters may have developed an element fault. It could be short circuiting and blowing the fuse. It could also be a fault in immersion heater element or in the cables leading into the heater itself. They can become quite...

It might have a European-style plug, but it doesn't comply with the European standards, it should have a normal blue+brown colour coded cable. Both cores of the cable should be equally sized. However, if it has a 2-pin European plug, it's not polarised anyway. European appliances are designed...