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Hi Catlad, good to hear from you again..... No plastering done or anything I can think of that would add moisture to the air. No heating on or anything. There is so much ventilation as I have no ceilings and openings everywhere. All I can think of is that the minimal hot air the is in the...

I am in the middle of renovating my house and have all ceilings down. The roof is slates with no felt so the rafters have a huge amount of ventilation currently as they are even open to the house, given no ceilings. Yet whilst I have been renovating mould has started to grow on the rafters...

I am looking to fit an inline extractor fan and the instructions say 'must have an Omnipolar switch with a contact separation of at least 3mm, the circuit must be protected by either 3Amp fuse or suitable MCB' I was told by an friend who knows a bit about electrics to run a 3 core cable off...

Thank you very much for all the help. I think this will be my way forward.

Thinking about all this I'm wondering if I'll be better not have downlights and fitting two light fittings from the ceiling with led lamps in. This way I would still get led efficiency, can still be dimmable. But I don't have issues of accessing wiring for maintainance or issues of down lighters...

Thank you for the reply. I would like dimmable LEDs and I was also looking at the integrated LEDs as they have a smaller depth leaving so they poke out less on loft. My plan was to fit these LEDs, then in loft fit 120mm celotex up to with 100mm of each downlight. Then use a fire hood or...

Clere3....what did you do in the end? ....I'm having the exact same issues. I want to put down lighters in bedroom but am not sure whether to go with GU10s with LED lamps or the integrated LEDs. I'm also unsure how to deal with the insulation around the Lamps in the loft space. I too want to be...

I am looking to fit LED lights upstairs in my house (ceilings are currently just plasterboarded and awaiting plaster and lighting. I also need to insulate the loft 1:) which integrated LEDs are best? I require fire rated and dimmable lighting? 2:) where the downlights pop through in the...

Thank you once again. Really appreciate the help. I'll look at both of these and hopefully they will work perfectly.

Thank you so much. I'll look into that then. Also having same issue tacking up plastic conduit to the chases I have created for the electrics. Are there any adhesives out there that stick plastic to brick. I only need it to hold in place and sit just within the chase so the plasterer can go...

My Victorian house is made from bricks which contain holes through the depth of the brick. (21 holes in each brick in total) so when I try to drill into them or screw a screw into wall plug the brick just cracks and breaks away. I'm trying to fix a plastic outside vent to accomdate a new...

Thank you all the input, the electrician is a mate who I used to play football with. I have spoke with him and he knows I'm trying to save money and challenge myself doing it. The only reason I'm doing it is because the whole house is stripped of ceilings and floors so when he does come round he...

Thank you once again, I will speak again with the electrician who's helping me once I've run cables (he's my uncle actually but we don't see each other much). I take your point on over loading. My mind is quite clear now so my plan is as follows. 1:) run single 6mm 3 core SWA cable 49...

All I'm after in power to shed 40 meters away and power for lighting 15m from CU by patio at front of back garden. Instead of running x2 SWA cables from CU (1 for each) could I not run 6mm SWA cable from CU to distribution/ adapter box and then From the box run 6mm SWA down to shed and then...

I am also needing to run 6mm 3 core SWA cable from CU to the my shed as I want power here. This is at the bottom of my garden and about 40 meters away. This would mean I'd have two seperate circuits and two SWA cables running from my CU to the outside. Is there anyway I can just have one SWA...

Ok so 4mm SWA from fuse box to radio switching unit, no switches Then fix this unit into a distribution/adapter box which needs to be quite large to house the radio switching unit. What do people use other than outdoor patio lighting to run off these radio units? ....and do you have any...

I've looked into these radio switching units and as you say they mostly seem to come with fobs....so perhaps I wouldn't always lose the remote if it was a fob on my key ring.....although I would a always have to have my keys on me which I don't and my partner too.....am I understanding this...

Thanks again for your advice. I'm no electrician and am just trying to learn as I like challenge and would like to so as much of this as I can before calling in an electrician at final stages to check and sign off. Is there a difference between normal armoured cable and SWA cable or are...

Good question??? I was just advised to use at least 4mm Do you need a higher mm if you are going longer distances? ....it's perhaps a 25 meter stretch.

Thanks fit such a quick reply. I know an electrician fairly well who has agreed to sign things off but I don't want to keep bothering him too much. He said run the cables and he'll come and sign them off. In regards to having different size cables I didn't want to have armoured inside the...