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OK Here is the board: And here is the side of one of the 6A MCB's: So, RHRA - looks like I need them replaced. Should I phone the number on the recall and let them deal with it, or should I contact my electrician and have him deal with it? I'd rather use an electrician I chose if...

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That's what I thought too, as it's not obvious from the front and most of them are sandwiched between others. Will let you know when I get chance to look during daylight hours, so I can see with the power off - don't want to do it by torchlight alone and would rather turn it off before...

Am I overlooking something obvious here?

Thanks. I definitely have some 6/16 breakers and those codes look like the info I need. Guess I'll have to open the CU and might have to take them out to get a look at the side of them.

I having an electrical supply fitted to 3 outbuildings. I'm naturally inquisitive and have been reading up a lot on various places including here (I've read over 100 pages worth of threads, well, the interesting ones). I'm aware that I don't have the necessary test equipment and that's why I've...

It looks like 3x10mm2 cables will fit 60a choc block ok, but they don't look as substantial and one screw will clamp two cores. Are they just left loose inside the box and wrapped in insulating tape?

That looks neat, but I have two to get in to a smallish (MK garage type) CU which has knockouts on the side, so a connection in the adaptable box will probably be easier.

Electrician has been. Suggests plastic CU and adaptable box. I'm going to lay it all out and he will connect up/test. Will take a while yet to do the trenches (plus still waiting on one of the sheds to be erected). What's the best (neatest) way of connecting 2x 10mm 3 core SWA and 10mm...

What does renew the RCD mean? Are you placing a new consumer unit (or replacing an old one) in the new building, or replacing something inside an exiting unit at the new building or at the house end? New circuits need official sign off. There is debate over what constitutes a new circuit...

I have someone coming to connect up my sheds, once I've dug the trenches and laid the cable/conduit. Internally I'm just having a couple of sockets and a light fitting in each. Everything will be RCD protected in a small CU in each shed (two circuits). What's best: Metalclad or plastic...

I can watch TV over cat5 these days. I couldn't find the grey stuff in 50m twinwall anyway - but if black is cheaper I might just use that. I could get away with 50mm, or even less, for the cat5 too. Once it's all installed, should I stop up the ends around exiting cables/pipes - shove a bit...

I might even put three in (black for power, blue for water and green for some cat5). It's getting more expensive...

I'm wiring up an outbuilding to the house and have spoken with a sparkie who will do the clever bit (including hookup of SWA and testing). I'll do some digging. The sparkie wasn't bothered about it, but I want to put the cable in conduit, as it saved me having the drive dug up earlier in the...

It's two sheds, not a garage and a shed (the main house CU is in the garage). In fact it may be three sheds in future (all of which are next to each other and it seems a waste to run three separate cables from the house). I can't see a time when I would want to isolate one shed. If I wanted...

No. I believe it's not notifiable since the recent changes to part P. I will be employing an electrician to make a connection to the main consumer unit (new circuit, which is notifiable) but I will subsequently extend that new circuit myself.

Is it possible to gland two 10mm2 SWA (3 core) cables directly to a metal garage consumer unit, something like this: http://www.screwfix.com/p/wylex-2-way-garage-unit-63a-30ma-rcd/53927 If not, and I used an adaptable box directly beneath the unit, could I gland it in the box and then take...

Is it built into the boiler (alpha CD28S)? I can't see a separate pump. All I can select is off/frost/on/reset and the radiator thermostat. Here is the boiler: Here is the gauge next to the tank: Slightly concerned one is too high and the other is too low. The temperature...