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Not got a clue - but more importantly, is this safe? and if not, what's the best course of action to take? Could I just sleeve the earth core myself?

Anyone?

Either that or get a lecky who can self certify in right? Any idea on max number of lights that can go on to this 1 circuit as well? Work won't be done till mid spring time yet but would like to maybe order the lights well before that.

2nd question of the day - I have a light in my garden at the moment and want to add more lights to this circuit. As I'm not installing a new circuit in the garden, just 'extending' an existing one, do I still need to inform the local council of this? Or can it be done without informing the...

Hi all, was at my sister's place over the weekend and she asked me to connect up the water supply to her new electric shower. The electrician had already been over and had connected up the electrics to the shower and had said that it wasn't his job to do the water side of things (which is...

Are there any pipes near this wall - are they leaking ? If you lift up the carpets are the floorboards around these walls damp? Sounds like it's rising damp in all honesty but you need to fix this before redecorating or you'll have the same problem having spent all that money on the...

1. Drill 3 holes right the way through the metal post - top, middle and bottom 2. Drill the same holes through your 6x2 frame timber. 3. Attach the 6x2 to the metal post using nuts and bolts (and washers if needed). 4. Finish off your wall.

Whatever you do, you'll end up making your own rooms smaller as you'll have to insulate from your own side - you may want to try sttaching battens to the party wall with 2.4's, filling the void with sound deadening materials and then finishing off with plywood accross the front of the battens...

Is this an internal breeze block wall? Also how deep is it? A friend of mine a while back tried chasing an internal breeze block wall to install a new back box in it and went straight through it causing a whole in the wall. Point being, be careful with it and take your time, breeze blocks...

Sorry for the late reply and many thanks for that. There is also a thermostat on the hallway wall though? Why do they have in essence 2 thermostats? - 1 on the boiler and one in the hallway? Do these not more or less do the same job?

Could do those, but 1) The bathroom is on the 1st floor and I don't have a ladder to get up that high to install a shutter on the outside. 2) Those are expensive. 3) The bathroom is heated with a towel rail (and is set to a higher temperature) rather than a radiator. Unfortunately this...

Unfortunately it does matter - wind rushes through the hole in the wall where the fan is. Also, with the current weather, everytime you switch the light on, all the warm air is sucked out - not very nice when you want to have a bath etc. With a more accessible switch, at least I will be able...

ur right, i should have ! tlc's expensive though, phoned a few local electric wholesalers - got one for £4.89 !!!!

Hi all, I'm looking to replace the triple pole isolator switch for the bathroom fan, but would prefer one in the form of a pull cord type as it is quite high up and difficult to reach at the moment. do these exist?

In that case, why not switch off at the mains, remove the cooker isolator, extend the cable from that point using one of the previously mentioned junction boxes to a point which is within 2 meters of the oven and reinstall the isolator. From here, run more 6mm cable to the back of your oven...

I'm not an electrician, but as I understand it, you should have a cooker/oven isolator switch in the kitchen already? As long as the oven is not moving more than 1.5 meters away from this isolation switch, why not just change the existing shorter cable with a cable long enough from this...

Cool - thanks all.

All becoming much clearer now - thanks for that. I also read the following passage in the Wikipedia link - "In particular, an RCD alone will not detect overload conditions, phase to neutral short circuits or phase-to-phase short circuits" Would using an RCD with an MCB detect these types...

That's horrible - hope WDIK managed to fix it somehow? Thanks for all the help and advice all, I've now realised a whole load of things that I'd never have even begun to think of if it wasn't for this forum! My personal preference is the hardwood decking - I like the colour. But this should...

Good morning all, just read the posts - does this mean that an RCD together with an MCB does the same job as an RCBO? Or is the RCBO the better device to use?