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Thanks for the brilliant help you've just given me. Please have a look at my other two recent posts to see if you can help there too. Steve.

Currently the connection to my electric oven is by 6mm2 twin and earth connected to the oven wire via a 3 way chocolate block ! There is no cooker switch or CCU. Previous house owner did this. I want to upgrade the circuit so that I have a cooker switch and CCU. I can do the upgrade using the...

The picture shows the earthing of my consumer unit. There are 7 strands of bare wire approx 1 mm diameter each. I guess this is not an acceptable earthing method. How can I upgrade that? Do I just use 16mm squared green/yellow? Do I just bolt the new earth lead to that springy strip (where the...

Picture shows the cable going to my oven. Obviously damaged at some point then joined together using 2 way chocolate block and taped over. Don't know if the earth is intact or not! The cable goes up behind the T+G and then into the plaster after about 4 inches. What is the easiest acceptable way...

If I got someone in to fit the new consumer unit then how would they do the job? Would they have to call the electric board to de-energise the system (I guess that means pulling out the big fuse) and then call them back to re-energise? Would this all happen within one day as we don't want to be...

Thanks for the answers, really appreciate that. What kind of isolator should be fitted? What should the rating be? Can anyone specify a specific type that is commonly used?

Thinking about fitting a New Consumer Unit. I know that Buildings Control will have to be notified if I decide to do the job myself. My electricity supply does not currently have an isolator after the meter so I would not be happy doing this work before an isolator was in place. My question is...