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Thanks for the replies. Got my 2.5mm from B+Q for £40 (2 x 50m). Steve.

What's a good price for T+E ? Looking for 100m of 2.5mm and 25m of 6mm. I'm in Middleton, Manchester. There's a City Electrical Factors round the corner, are they cheap? Steve.

Best to use alkaline batteries in the stat. You will know when the batteries are going when you wake up one day and the house is freezing. That's when the flame symbol has come on but there wasn't enough power in the battery to flip the relay contacts. That happened to me! Also what can happen...

Can anyone please answer my questions about using conduit? Thanks in advance, Steve.

Put the batteries in and operate the + and - to switch the internal relay on and off. The relay can only operate with the batteries in. Also a latching relay is used (to save on battery power). If the relay is in the closed position, call for heat, then it cannot open again until you put the...

I've got the same room stat myself. Try changing the temperature setting on the stat by pressing + and -. Each time the flame symbol on the stat display goes on or off you should hear a click as the internal relay in the stat changes over. If there is no click then the relay contacts are welded...

Sorry but the kitchen floor is solid, concrete I think. Actually the first 18 inches into the kitchen is floorboards on joists as is the hallway. I planned to take the cables from the porch (consumer unit) down the hallway clipped under the floor joists and then come back up just inside the...

OK, Seems like conduit is the right way to go. Experience counts for everything. I actually only need to go a distance of 2 metres in the conduit, the cable will then be surface clipped behind the kitchen base units and will then be run in the safe zones. So next question, how many conduits will...

Good thinking Securespark. There's actually a small blacksmiths place round the corner from me (I'm in Middleton). I'll make up a little sketch and ask them to make something up. It should be simple to make and hopefully not too expensive. Can anyone confirm that the mechanical protection...

Didn't really want to use that. I would leave that stuff to the pro's. I planned to clip the cables to the brick and then protect them with some kind of barrier. I thought a right angled piece of steel screwed to the floor and running in front of the cables would be ideal. Now where can I find...

Thanks for the comments. If I decide to go for mechanical protection can you guys recommend something to put in front of the cables that will be hard to drill, but low cost. The cables will also be protected by some thick porcelain tiles glued onto plywood. As far as I know the mechanical...

I think that I will put a couple of double sockets on there then (one at each end to try and define the boxed in part as cable trunking). You can actually buy PVC skirting trunking that does the same job but that looks a bit naff, too officey. I can then make changes as advised by the BCO. If...

Yes, bottom of socket would be about 3 inch above the floor. My problems are two fold, 1st the existing skirting will look rubbish against the new tiled floor so I want to get rid of that. 2nd I need to get the cables across that wall. I could go up the wall across, then down burried in...

A safe zone is also horizontal or vertical from a accessory or socket. I planned to put some sockets on the front in order to define the boxed in area as a safe zone.

I wanted to run some cables at the base of the kitchen wall. That is a 2.5mmsq ring, 6mmsq for oven and main Earth bonding. I was going to remove skirting, clip the cables to the brick wall and then box them in (box 6 inch high x 2 - 3 inch deep). I was then going to tile over the front and top...

Mine certainly doesn't! Her thinking begins and ends with picking the colours! Steve.

I'll give BC a ring then to see what's happening with my application. I am going to rip down the kitchen completely but I will reuse the existing cabinets with some extra ones I've bought. Thinking about it I think I may have seen a gap at the back of the wall cabinets when looking from the...

Thanks for the tips guys. Fred I'd be really interested in how you get on with the BCO. Did they come out before you started to have a look round? I don't think my cabinets have any space behind for running a cable but I will check that. I was planning on putting a switched FCU for each light (3...

What's the accepted practice for connecting up some lights under a Kitchen wall cabinet? I was going to use a switched FCU that was spurred off the ring. What would be the best choice of light? Steve.

Securespark, don't understand your latest comment. Please can you explain. Steve.