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Thanks all; I'll use 'em. Yes, it's imperial (PVC/PVC, tinned conductor) T&E Spark123. 7/.029 for the socket ring and 7/.044 for the cooker radial. Gorgeous stuff. Crimps well into the 2.5 and 1.0 mm^2 ferrules if you're patient enough to feed it in in the first place. Also some 1.0 mm^2...

Hello, I've bought a house, it has a Veritas R8 Plus based alarm, I've no idea what the codes are. http://www.texe.com/uk/products/series/control-panels/veritas-series/ Is it now landfill, or is there a way to reset these? The original installer (750 quid and made a mess of the...

Hi, When dealing with stranded cable (my cooker supply and original ring main are in stranded, do the regs care how it is terminated? Is it acceptable to use bootlace ferrules to make life easier when terminating? These: http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/DVDK2G.html When...

Enquired. Wholly possible but chargeable (cost to be advised after the site visit) - default fuse is 60A unless there was something larger there previously/you're paying to upgrade. We;ll see what their tech says anyhow. :)

UKPN deny all knowledge and responsibility for the clamp... ...but are sending a man in a van out to see about swapping the TN-S to PME / TN-C-S Not as safe as a good TN-S supply perhaps, but it's probably effectively TN-C-S anyhow halfway up the street, and a good TN-C-S is better than...

Hello, Wiring regs say screwed connections must be accessible. On a scale of 1-victor meldrew, how mean and grumpy would an inspector have to be to fail the following please... Existing junction boxes under floorboards: I've got an existing installation where there are 30A junction...

Hi all, Kitchen worktops: I'm after two pieces 3.9m long for a "temporary" kitchen. (18 months or so until I refit properly; currently removing chimney breast on one side/replacing completely rotten worktop on the other) They'll sit over beech units/doors, magnolia walls w/white or dark...

Radial on an MCB it is then. I'll make it 16A for the minute at the board comes with two of them and the shed has naff all in it. National Grid man arrived today to check gas pipes. Large one is theirs, dead, and the orange tape was something they applied when they'd converted from town gas...

We got there in the end! Yes, my bathroom has hot/cold taps and heating, and all plumbing is copper and is connected electrically. :) No, supplementary bonding probably isn't needed. The CH/HW don't connect to planet earth (run through the floor-ceiling void, not buried in the concrete...

No - hence asking if there's a reason not to bond these. Not "is it required? but "would it be bad to?" A pro would want to minimise material costs; labour too if paid by the job rather than hour. I'm less fussed by the material/time cost but want to avoid the re-inspection. Is having a...

Earthed - connected to the ground or connected to something connected to the ground Bonding - ensuring that all of these are tied together and to the MET to minimise any difference in potential I'll have used the terms interchangeably as it's not the day job - sorry - but bonding is what...

Good tip on wickes, thanks! Most of electrical install is reasonable, I've had floorboards up and all the faceplates off. Cooker bodge, attic socket bodge, double socket bodge - all easily reversed. Bonding upgrade and rcd all circuits and it'll be to current specs as far as I can see...

Following on from this thread: http://www.diynot.com/forums/electrics/upgrade-60a-fuse-crabtree-starbreaker-backward-compatible.353859/ New meter being fitted 20/02/2013 by DNO. I'm going to supply some 25mm^2 tails and a switchfuse (cheaper than an isolator switch) and ask the...

Yes... I'm busy writing a new thread with bonding queries as we speak as these need attention.

Cutout: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24994361@N03/8438845557/ Its a hard (bakelite?) plastic. I'll fill in the form they've sent and see what they say. Understood. I was just totting up what was theoretically possible as an "instantaneous" load and checking that the fuse wouldn't...

That's what I was thinking. SSE arranged the meter change over the phone. UK Power Networks (the DNO) have sent a "small services/application for an electricity connection" form back that covers new supplies and upgrades up to 70KVA, which you send in to get an "estimate of cost" so...

Awesome; thanks!

Q1: Thanks streetlighter, I was afraid of that! Q3: Thanks EFLImpudence, as aside from the first metre (surface trunking) it's either floating in an uninsulated floor void or plastered (browning, not dot and dab plasterboard) into a wall I'd say it's uninsulated for most of the run and the...

Hello, Ex council terrace, built sometime between 1950- and 1970. The electrical supply is via a lead sheathed cable entering under the stairs, and the earth is bonded to the lead sheath: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24994361@N03/8438845557/ The Economy 7 meter is being ripped out...

It's south of Watford Gap as far as rates go! Ditching the YP and waiting for an RGI doing some work on a nearby council property to earn himself a drink on his lunchbreak did the trick. ;-) (all ok)