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All EU diversity requirements can generally be met by hiring a brown electrician in a wheelchair.

A shower is notifiable work, you're breaking the law if it's not certified either by a registered competent person or via inspections by your council buildings people. It's a law broken every day and not really enforced, but you might kill yourself or someone else and it'll be a hassle when you...

You're talking about a plastic box here? I don't see why the veneer needs earthing if there's no contact. You can get metal dry lining boxes anyway if you wanted to provide earth contact.

I'd be happy to distribute these for you. I'll even do the stapling if you drop off a box of each.

You get what you pay for basically. A cheaper one generally won't last as long, suck as much air or run as quietly, but will do the job. 100mm (about 4 inches) is a common standard, though not the only size you can get. Again it says on the packaging/internet sales pitch, along with the...

I think it may be electrician time to be honest, for your safety. Are you saying the test button on the RCD does not work anymore?

They don't all come with overrun, but it will always specify on the packaging or you can just ask the shopkeep, assuming you're not in a B&Q and the shopkeep is therefore capable of forming sentences. You're looking at around fifty pounds.

Make sure you get plenty of photos of the installation and warning tape if you're planning to ask an electrician to use it without seeing it go in, use a depth stick in the photos. I went for 10mm at around four pounds a metre in the end for my garage, more than needed is not a problem...

Check they're dead, cut and chuck if it bothers you. Check all connections are secure if you haven't already, and you could get a PIR if you're worried about the general state of the electrics.

Sounds like the problems you've been putting off by pressing reset buttons and resetting breakers have come to a head and you need someone with test equipment on site.

I'd recommend you make no mention of withholding payment at this stage. If he's a good tradesman he'll want to leave a happy customer, and staying on good terms is the best way to getting any real problems rectified. There's likely to be an easy solution.

A new wylex CU fitted for 124 is a good deal is what I meant. How much is an out of production main switch going to cost on its own? And what happens when he wants work done that needs RCD protection put in? False economy. He pays his premiums, so he's already footed the bill a dozen times...

It happens from time to time. And a fault that trips an RCD can also be in a light fitting or something plugged in anywhere, which increases the fault frequency a bit. There are also occasionally likely to be nuisance trips, more likely with a shared RCD because of the natural variations in...

I can't really say what would help without seeing it. If the surface is uneven, sanding would of course help a flat fitting to sit flat against it. Or it may be that the springs holding them in are slack for the thickness of your ceiling board or that the ceilings are crappy old lath and...

You can ask him to rectify if he made a mistake. Not his fault if you picked crappy lights or have very rough ceilings or something though. Can you take a picture? If that's just the way these lights look, you need to pay the man. Then pay him again if you want him to do more work putting...

The one with the white lever looks like an mcb, as are the blue and red adjacent to them before the main switch. They break the circuit if too much current flows, which can happen when a light blows. RCD or RCBO makes no difference in that situation, just the one breaker might blow and not...

Great deal for you. Personally I'd consider getting rcbos instead since you're getting a cut rate deal, which means each circuit would trip on its own rather than all the circuits on the rcd if there's a fault.

The spur may originate in one of the nearby outlets on the lounge ring. Have a look inside each for one that has three cables instead of two, and check those connections. Regardless of whether or not the tripping stops you should solve the missing earth issue, which may just be a bad...

Why assume he's going to bypass the legal requirements? It's not as simple as 'go with whatever the electrician says', there are a range of valid options on choosing a CU and method of wiring up an outbuilding. Sure he's probably going to wire it himself and not get it tested or certified...