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    Cooker hood vent or recirc

    Well thats not correct, wickes sell zanussi cooker hoods for built in kitchens, they state ducted or recirculation, as does zanussi website. The difference is you fit a blank plate over the ducting port. Mine has a facility to put a vent pipe on but i wondered how to tell difference. I think...
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    Cooker hood vent or recirc

    Was going to use the old hygena cooker hood above the hob. is there an easy way to tell if its a vent only hood or vent and recirc.
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    Earth's required

    Regarding being registered, he is accredited NAPIT, NAPIT part P, Trustmark, IPAF, IRATA international and Comp EX. I used him as he is an electrician offshore with a relative but also has his own company a home, young but very serious sparky. I was just looking to do the earthing myself rather...
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    Earth's required

    I don't doubt he has done it correctly, on item 8 of the NAPIT certificate under main protective conductors he has said main earthing conductor is 10mm copper, protective bonding conductor is 6mm and copper, supply conductors are copper and 16mm, all both boxes ticked. He has also ticked the for...
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    Earth's required

    I had a new consumer box fitted and the electrics tested, all god apart from 2 items. The earth on the incoming gas supply is of the incorrect size, doesn't say what it should be ?. Secondly, no earth on incoming water supply. The chap quoted £120 to earth both items, what's involved in this as...
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    Earth sleeve

    Im sure most can tell i am no electrician but i have been running a few cables etc etc. One question about earth cable, i keep fitting earth sleeves but why does cabling not come with 3 coated cables rather than 2.
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    Oven cable

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    Dual appliance box

    I bought a polar click dual appliance connector and the 40mm pattress box. I had a check of the measurements and with the pattress box on the wall behind the oven, i would not get the oven far enough back into the base unit. The oven sits on a shelf around 100mm above the bottom of the base of...
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    Oven cable

    The Beko built in oven did not come with a cable. I have installed a click dual appliance connection to feed both the hob and the oven, the spec for the oven (max 2.3 kw oven power )cable is HO5W-FG 3 x 1.5mm. The length needs to be around 5ft only, what size cable do i need, will ask in CEF but...
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    Spur to washing machine

    TBH i have completed this now, i ran the supply cable to a socket in the base unit cupboard next to the washing machine, thanks
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    Tiling edge

    I'm going to do a bit of tiling for the first time. I have chosen a 200mm x 100mm metro style tile, the sort with a slight bevel to it. What sort of trim is better on this sort of tile, the normal plastic tile trim or a quadrant type ?. When placing the first row of tiles on the worktop, do you...
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    Spur to washing machine

    Thanks
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    Spur to washing machine

    its a radial circuit
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    Spur to washing machine

    this is not a spur off of a spur. the double socket has 2 cables, 1 in from the last socket and 1 out to the next socket. the spur for washing machine is planned to come off this double socket
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    Spur to washing machine

    This is not a spur off the final part of the ring, ie there is an in/out on the double socket and a spur from that
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    Spur to washing machine

    I ha a double socket on the wall in yhe kitchen. i am running a spur under the worktop a into a kitchen base unit. does the single socket in the cupboard need to be fused?
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    Cooker switch

    I am not up to speed with these reg's but let me explain. The cables are on an internal flat wall, between this wall and my neighbour, there is a concrete wall, the cavity is between this wall and the internal plasterboard wall
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    Cooker switch

    Good info, thanks. I weren't planning on having the cooker cable tied back into the isolator switch, when i run the new 6mm cable to the isolator, then to the hob connection point, is there a connection box i can buy where i can have the 6mm as the feed into the box, then have 2 6mm cables...
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    Cooker switch

    Thanks for that, for sure they should have been done, a stupid overlook as some electrics had been moved.
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    Cooker switch

    I cut a couple of holes near the ceiling and confirmed the cable went straight through a small conduit in the concrete ceiling. Will bring the cable out just above the extractor fan and fit a 32A JB. From the JB i plan on running a 6mm cable down the cavity, behind the wall unit and then fit it...
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