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yes I mean cooker :o) but is cooker or oven not really the same thing? guess not really since you can normally plug a oven into a ring main, so yes, I mean a stand alone cooker Thanks

Hi, I am wiring in my friends new oven that he has bought but his cooker switch is directly above where the oven will be sitting, approx 0.75m. his kitchen lay out is strange as there is a door directly to the left of the oven and then to the right is the incoming supply and CU in a cupboard...

thanks for the reply dannyboi, wish you had rounded it off with "but I think the light circuit is the best way" :lol: only thing I would differ from you is for the fact of putting in your double pole switch, I know it makes isolation easier but its that chasing the wall and replastering...

Hi, Just wondering on which way you prefer to fit security lights as have been having discussions and constantly disagree with my Colleague. My way is to run the light straight from the lighting circuit with some 1mm 3 core cable, through the wall and into the Security Light. the light MCB...

I have recently had a similar problem with my shower. I found the casue to be when I was turning the heat up on the shower it was causing the water vessel in the shower to have too much steam (pressure) and it casued the vessel to burst open, hence water spraying everywhere and shorting the...

Hi Just a quickie, I am planning to run mains into my garage, from a 50A MCB using 10mm cable to a junction box and then SWA cable underground to a new consumer unit in the garage. Problem been is that I want to use the junction box under the floor and then tile over the floor. I understand...

Hi Guys, I am hoping someone can give me some advice. I am trying to fit some french doors to the rear of my property. The main problem I have is that I have to move the doors by approximately 6 - 8 cm's to the right. so the question is what is the best way of filling this gap? the original...

I thought as long as the tag was accesible then it was to the standards, therefore a removeable floor board would be acceptable. Its like saying that you need your water pipe or gas pipe not in a cupboard because the door is hiding the tag. just my opinion of course, I dont have my regs book...

Hi Folks, I was wondering if anyone had experience of using a seaward BS6761 all in one tester? How did you find it? did it do everything necessary? is it value for money? any advice would be appreciated. Cheers

cheers for the reply :D as stated in my previous mail, the volex wiring has the brown wire attached to the switched live and the grey wire to the looped live. this is what is confusing me so I am unsure if it is written in stone how to connect them, is it possible to stay with the way i...

Hi, I have been rewiring my house which also made me want to install new BT sockets, since the old BT sockets were the style that were mounted on external boxes i wanted to have them flush fitted like my wall sockets. The main BT wiring came down to a box, the link below is the only image i can...

Hi, I have been looking for a diagram with the new 3 core and earth wires for wiring a extractor fan to the isolator switch in my bathroom. There is a lovely easy to follow diagram in the sticky pages (if your unsure how to do it) but this is with the old wire colours (red blue and yellow)...

instead of a switch would could easily be turned off why not use a 3A FCU :)

Hi, can anyone tell me if the correct way of achieving supplementary bonding in the bathroom with a radiator with 8mm micro bore pipe ran in will be just connect an earth to the radiator? I can not find any earth clamps that go down to the 8mm. Cheers

since the cable is protected by a 40A MCB you could turn on the cooker and all hobs and therefore using it at full power, if the MCB keeps tripping out this will be an excellent way to show the sparky on his return and therefore he will have no option but to increase the breaker and cable. the...

firstly, this is just hypothetical as I am interested. If the light is 0.6m away from the bath and greater then 2.25m from the floor then it is outside bathroom zones and hence no need to attach to the supplementary bonding. and from what i gather a lot of bathrooms have ceilings higher then...

from what i gather most people just have a single switch controlling the light and the fan, therefore once the light is switched on the fan also comes on. But the fan does normally have an isolation switch above the door in a lot of cases.

Hi Lads and Lasses, as the title says, another question about bonding, and thats bonding and not bondage for you short sighted peeps :wink: . if you only have a radiator in your bathroom with metal pipes and the rest of the installation is plastic (bath and sink) and the lights in the...

there is a good description in the sticky pages, follow the link http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7553 its about half way down the page

so is it possible from the 45A 1 gang oven switch above the counter, to run down to a cooker outlet plate and then spur a normal socket from this outlet plate to a normal 13A socket? I was not sure if you could spur of the cooker outlet plate with probably 2.5 T&E to a socket to connect my...