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Just tighten the screws normally and you should be all right - sometimes the brass screw thread comes adrift from the plastic surround - when that happens all you can do is replace the whole back box or pull out the offending plastic lug and replace with one from another back box. PJ

3 - FCU to flex outlet, flex outlet to appliance. PJ

Nothing wrong at all with what you suggest, Leeroy, my only query would be around routing the cable and whether you can hide it, or if the cistomer doesn't mind if it's visible - but that's not an electrical consideration. PJ

You won't fit it inside a standard 600mm cabinet, you'll have to build something and tailor it to fit - means you'd have a kitchen cupboard wider than all the others. Unless you plan to stand the fridge between two other cupboards and then put a door over the front. You could hinge the door...

Check your measurements first. Integrated appliances are usually a bit narrower than non-integrated so they can fit inside a 600mm cabinet - the non-integrated is already 600mm wide. Ditto with the depth. And the doors on non-integrated will be shaped in some way to look nice, where the doors on...

Our Zanussi TD4113W tumble dryer isn't drying very well - at the end of a full cycle the clothes are still a bit damp. Done all the checks as per the manual (clear filter, low temp button not pressed, clothes not too wet to start with). Opened it up and the upper heating element heats up...

Another vorte for the fuses being in the Revo box. They won't/can't be anywhere else. What's the wiring like - the supply from the cut out fuse looks recent but you may still have rubber-insulated wiring elsewhere. get it all checked and soon. PJ

All domestic electrics have to comply with Part P. I think you really want to know if a cloakroom counts as a special location under BS7671, to which the answer is no, it doesn't. Think bathroom, shower, lots pof splashy water, and that's your special location - not usually an issue with a...

Change to what? You mean take down the old and put up a new one? If you need to ask you probably shouldn't be doing it, but have a look at the Wiki anyway. PJ

Not usually normal practice because it's more work than just another ring socket, but worth considering - if the fridge/freezer radial is kept separate from the RCD protection on the other circuits then an unexpected RCD trip won't shut off the FF, which can be quite unfortunate if it happens...

Terminate the cables in a weatherproof, externally-mounted box, drill through the wall behind the box, and feed the rest of the way using twin and earth. Or ask your electrician what he recommends as he'll presumably be signing it off? PJ

If it's a storage heater, the first thing to do is NOT undo it from the wall. Take the front off (look for screws at the bottom), then take off the inner panel. Now you can remove the bricks, which are the weighty bit. Once the bricks are out you can take the casing off the wall and it won't be...

Did he explain why he was installing an RCD socket for a fridge - seems a curious approach. What happens when you plug anything else into the socket - does that also trip or not? Might be time for a second opinion from a second pair of eyes. PJ

Fit the additional alarms with radio link bases - at least that will save a chunk of wiring for the interconnect. PJ

if your property met the regulations at the time it was built and there have been no material changes since the regs were updated, it is legal and conforms as it is. There is no need to bring it up to 17th edition. If we had to change properties to meet every new reg we'd have loads of business...

Was it the sort of RCD that trips to the halfway-down point and has to be pushed all the way down before being reset (MEM/Eaton springs to mind). Hope fully your electrician will have been and sorted it by now - what was it? PJ

He can inspect and test but cannot notify if he was not the installer. In the theoretical world of rules and regulations somebody somewhere should have done something and done it right. In the real world, the one with fallible human beings in it, the local authority computer doesn't care about...

Disconnect each point and check the continuity on each leg of the circuit - if you find a short on one of the legs that's the one to dig up ... Alernatively it could be the MCB has gone to its maker - are you able to/capable of changing the circuit to a different MCB to see if the problem...

Consumer units are where the builders thought would be a good place - sometime you have to wonder what they were on at the time! No, it doesn't have to move during a rewire or at any other time. To move it involves two considerations - the incoming supply and the house circuits. If you're...

Yes, perfectly all right. After all, it's been used for mains power up to now ... If it's a 32A breaker presumably (?) it's a 6mm cable. If you junction that and run 2.5 mm feeds to your sockets (easier to work with than 6mm) swap the breaker for a 16A and treat the circuit as an ordinary...