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if the two blacks were together in the old fitting and the two reds were together then in the new ceiling rose connect the two reds to the brown terminal and the two blacks to the blue terminal. Do two lights come on at once ? If it was connected one red, other red and one black togdther and...

Even if its a council house you should still have recieved a copy of certification. My advice would be to get in touch with the council explaining the problem that you believe the fan to have been installed incorrectly and dangerously and that you require an emergency visit to correct the...

It could be a few things, more likely than not you have a faulty appliance, when it trips again unplug everything - reset your rcd if it resets ok then you probably do have a faulty appliance, if on the other hand it trips when nothing is plugged in then that would indicate a wiring fault or rcd...

Do you know if the fan is low voltage or mains voltage ? If mains voltage then this would fail as it falls into zone 1. Look on line for 16th edition wiring regs bathroom zones that will give you all the requirements of how where it should be placed etc. The 16th edition wiring regulations...

Grading / risk assesments boll***k, its all paperwork gone are the days of doing a simple job. What effin difference does it matter what blinkin grade it is so as long as it meets the clients needs, is installed correctly at reasonable cost, and does the job it is intended to do ? I could...

Want me to prove it ? What does it matter what Grade it is, its always the same with the approved contractors, more money and more often than not ****e work, im not sayin every approved company is ****e, ive seen nacoss alarms glued under carpets, botched mains etc. I was an installer for A...

I can certainly say they did as we were always having to reset tamper alarms, especially before they started putting a screw into the rkp as tenants were always pulling the flap down to hard and pulling it off. They may have changed programming now but thats how it used to be.

It sounds like the cable that goes from your bathroom to your bedroom has been incorrectly terminated in one way or another, either the live or neutral is either not terminated or is broken at the fitting in your bathroom where all the wires are terminated, or if the live goes from your switch...

doh ! :oops: a picture paints a thousand words

thats just what i wanted to know thanks

From experience the 700L goes into engineer reset mode when tamper has been activated. Not user reset so if you dont know engineer code or who installed it better off with a clean reset. Yes the panel can also go into ghost tamper when one of the component fails on the main card, or it could be...

you tell me ? the swa im replaicing at the moment is only five years old but is shot to pieces as well as all the mem 20a pvc isolators know which ones i mean ? replaicing with lsf :(

all cables would be hidden under floor boards clipped direct in ceilings main cpu under stairs with own supply, in other words nacoss, used to install them for a council matey done 100's of em

Had the problem with Hilti te 36 li ion batts going faulty within a week of being purchased, then the replaicement went faulty as well....no impressed with the mutts nuts hilti at all, yet my makita lxt fine... no problems at all

No problem, imo adaptors should be banned even fused ones, cant understand why the moulded plug had been cut off though ?

pvc is pvc wether ir be swa or twin and skin, its all going to be affected by uv, general use is a big term since the ordinary joe public can go to bodgeit and quick and buy swa off the shelf

I have Securit 700L user and engineer manuals (for clarification)

Would be helpful if you posted a little more info but normally you would go for detector on landing, detector in hall way, detector in living room, door contacts front and rear door, personal attac button if living in a dodgy area near front door and in main bedroom, externall bell box and...

If you pm me Ill send you the engineers manual and user manual, as you'll probably be better off powering down and re powering back up resetting all functions.

Easy enough for someone that knows what they are doing. Presuming bathroom is upstairs and loft access above ceiling is available, how many cables go to the existing switch ? 1 twin 2 twins or 1 three core ?