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Some smaller gland sizes can be referred to as M20 but in fact are M16. A tad confusing of course. Here's a typical spec sheet for the type of glands we would use although these glands are for use on a petrochemical plant type of environment. I'm not familiar with the JB you are using, are they...

Some of you might be interested in a reply I got from local building control (in Southampton) regarding an enquiry I made recently about a fair sized electrical installation in my Garden. I post this only as there seems to be a mystique being built up about part P for the serious DIYers...

Looking at the qualifiers for notification under part P of the new building regs, it excludes bathrooms in it's explanation of exempt work on exisiting installations. Therefore, I have to notify the local building controls people if I want to install a safe pull cord switch and isolate and...

Yes, it has a bath and an electric shower over the bath. I'm actually wondering if I shouldn't just blank the wall switch and install a pull cord switch on the ceiling. Come to think of it, the electric shower has no local isolator adjacent to it either. I take it that is still a requirement...

I've recently done this and all the advice given so far is pretty well spot on. Best starting point is to look at the neighbours aerials but a handy tip from my Satellite dish aligning days is to mark a reference point on a u bolt next to the pole and mark graduations on the pole itself (say 5...

I suspect that my bathroom was once a bedroom and hence the light switch is on the wall by the door. As I'm going through my newly purchased property replacing light switches with dimmers, I had to stop and think about this switch and ponder if it is actually safe (it's approx 3 metres from the...

As the person that started this thread off, may I just say that the lighting and sensors are up now, fully wired and if I may say so, do a very good job of illuminating the walls (I fixed each one above a hanging basket so the baskets now get a splash of light to highlight them at night) and the...

I'm currently having four ceilings skimmed and as the chain of events leading to me moving in are now directly connected to the skim drying out, I wondered if there is a sensible way to speed it up? It's empty for most of the time so reluctant to leave the windows open. The Central heating is...

Thanks for the reply securespark, so it will be Ok to wire into the existing light circuit. That's good news. The PIR's are rated at 1Kw each so they should be OK too. Interesting to read that there's a demarkation between outside lighting that is attached to the wall and not, I wasn't aware...

I'm planning to install some outside lighting around two walls of my bungalow. Ordinarily now, I'd guess that this would be as good an example of a part p qualifier, given that cabling is no longer allowed to be run in the cavity (something I've done on previous properties). So surface mounted...

I draw schematics (amongst other things) for a living in the petrochem industry. Virtually all new wiring diagrams start off life on a bit of paper drawn by hand. It's the text that is the tricky bit as most people write in joined up writing and is thus unintelligable to anyone else apart from...

So just how feasible is it to feed a shower from a combi boiler? I note with interest the comments regarding flow rates from a combi boiler but do you need to buy a mixer valve/shower specifically for a combi type hot water system or will any one do provided you carefully study the flow...

Thanks for that reply too. So if it will fill 10mm deep in one go, would I be better off mixing up some carlite for filling in deep holes such as the craters you get when you pull out 40 year old nails that were used to hold the picture rail onto the wall? At the moment I'm using Wickes...

Thanks for that. I think I'd rather go for the straight fill with Carlite to be honest. Can it be put on up to say 10mm thick or do you need to build it up like filler?

This is the scenario. Bought a bungalow, every ceiling in artexed. As is the coving and the wall down to the picture rail. Not to my taste so the whole lot has had to go, coving, artex, picture rail... the lot. OK, standard stuff so far. In the Kitchen, for some reason, someone has...

Ah! now I know! I have one of those for when I go to hotels. They are ace cos it means you can keep your beers chilled (or a nice bottle of wine or two in case you ...er ... meet someone) without having to incurr the wrath of the mini bar "if you move a bottle of... you will be charged the...

OK, thanks for the advice. was thinking inline plug and socket but they are only rated for 10 amps which is getting close to a 2KW heater with lamps so that's what I'll put in. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ That didn't read right. I meant I'll use the 15 amp connector...

I'd like to think it's so he can enjoy a nice cold beer whilst enjoying certain bodily functions but I could be wrong:) ___________________________ moderator edited to correct quote

Reminds me of my first few days as an apprentice in a shipyard.... "here son, hold onto this lead with that hand and the other lead with your other hand while I check your resistance.... I'm just going to turn this little handle" Then came the busbar tester..... "hold that test probe...

Ah right, just thought about the isolator and if it needs to be fused or not. Thing is, I wanted to keep the 3 pin plug on the end of the fire feed cable which will have a fuse in it of course. I don't want two 13 amp fuses in series on the same spur feeding one appliance so I'll go for a...