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Unfortunately not - the access used to be directly underneath where my current back door is. There are now some some steps down from the back door into garden (approx 4ft high). I removed one of the steps to look underneath 'hoping' to see some original steps down to the cellar and a breeze...

Cheers for reply - just to clarify the oak flooring is in kitchen/diner above the cellar area which is why I'm wondering if access into cellar can be done entirely from the outside of the house. I would need to lift some of the flooring to get down into the cellar inside i.e. through the...

Hi all - does anyone have any advise on this at all? Guess my main question is is it possible to make an opening in the outside wall of the house without having access to the wall on the inside or do I need to be able to get inside the cellar before anything can be done? Cheers Steve

Cheers, certainly makes tomorrow a bit easier! As for complete plastic installs yeah I guess it's obvious when I think about it, although I would expect you could run 10mm plastic from the manifold to the rad without any joints under the floor etc - suppose even this would leave a good few...

Really? I thought this was a total no-no or am I getting confused with electrics! It's late and I've already had to deal with explaining to customer why the 80mm deep concealed shower valve can't be fitted in a 70mm wall cavity without building the wall out a bit! If I can just join it in the...

Hi All, Think I know the answer to this but here goes ;-) Currently refitting a bathroom and need to replace a 800mm radiator for a towel rail which has 440mm centres to the valves. Can align one side with the current location but the other side needs to move about 400mm. Problem is...

@ Rocky - that makes perfect sense if it were a row of 8 :-) Just confusing that the diagram is named row of 4 downlights, if they renamed it 'row of 4 in a bigger row of x number of downlights' I could have saved myself the concern! lol Still going to order some though - anyone use them?

Glad someone agrees! I'm obviously not an electrician so was just trying to find out if I was reading the diagram completely wrong or whether it was common to show circuits like this in diagrams? I will stop worrying about it! :-)

The drawing is on this link to the wagobox site.. https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.wagobox.com/docs/files/WA_Row_of_Downlights.pdf

The diagram would make more sense to me if the switch live/neutral + e just entered the connections from the left but didn't leave again from the right - as they would if downlights were daisy-chained from a rose or JB. Don't understand where the cable to the right is supposed to go off to?

Not sure if you are agreeing with me or disagreeing? My original question stated the permanent live was not in the diagram. My issue is that the switched live is showing connected to the 'live' for each light twice from left and right - just wondering if there is an obvious reason for this as...

I've been looking into getting some wago connectors to carry with me as they seem a quick and easy product to use when changing light fittings etc and was looking through their support pages and found this...

Hi, I'm thinking of having some work done and wondering how much of it I could do myself and what I will need to pay for! I have a circa 1890 terrace house, walls are approx 15-18inch thick, I have a cellar which runs under the back rooms of my house which used to have external access but...

Cheers all - there was another RCD in between the service fuse/meter and the flat itself, the flat is above a shop and Spark said it was due to the length of cable between the meter and the flat itself that it needed another RCD? Seems to just be confusing in scenarios like this as mate...

Sorry just thought about that - the meter inside near the CU must be a generation meter linked to the PV install. So can the PV shutdown also 'switch off' the incoming feed from the grid?

Sorry - I meant it seems wrong that the PV inverter shutting down (which I know should happen) would also shut off all mains power to the flat as well? That's really the answer I'm looking for - there's a meter outside the property also which is still getting power so the main 100amp fuse has...

Hi, My mate has a flat which has a solar PV install - he's tripped the RCD today changing a light fitting and now there is no electric at all to the flat after the RCDs have been switched back on. The meter itself has no electricity to it at all either. The SunnyBoy inverter has a fault...

ha ha, theres another solution for me then I can stick a 20w bulb in! Been looking for auto-off pull switches but they don't seem to exist.

I do take your point as I said I will probably go for an LED or even a 'normal' light bulb lol I'm not sure about your universal rule on the halogens though - what about all those above kitchen countertops all over the place, screwed to the bottom of some mdf or chipboard wall units and...

Cheers guys, was thinking of just halogen as most of the flourescent/low-energy ones seem to take too long to fully light up - especially in this scenario where it's a quick on/off. The cupboard does have a full height louvre door so heat shouldn't be too much of an issue but can't get away...