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Ahh, yes!

Allow me to answer the question with an illustration. Go to your house consumer unit and add up the value of all the MCBs. When you've done that compare it to the value of the service fuse (if it's not written anywhere that you an see without touching anything, assume it's 60, 80 or 100A).

I used to goto school with a kid called Sparky. I don't think that he was moonlighting as an electrician.

Adhesive? Magnet? Vacuum fitting? Anti-gravity drive?

Not really any great advice. The cables are a bit springy and can push the sockets out of true. Little annoying but not a lot you can do other than make sure they are aligned when trying to screw. Best way is probably to push both screws flush into the socket, then you have a little gap...

Interesting. So, to confirm, when you put a single switch on the black & red cable you can use a single switch to control the lights? When you add in the 2nd switch, either a dimmer or a normal rocker switch, it doesn't work? When you add in the 2nd switch, you wire the 3-core like for like...

I got 99 changes a second.

If they are new swtiches, one could be faulty, especially if one is a dimmer. First, check all the terminals are nice and tight and also that the terminal is gripping the copper wire and not the plastic (as has already been pointed out. If that fails, take the normal rocker switch and take...

Perhaps the OP wants to decant washing straight from the washing machine to the floor for drying?

First thing to check would be the manufacturer's instructions. My oven is iirc, 2.2KW. It ran quite happily on a 13A plug while I was refurbing the kitchen. Yet the MI state the device must be supplied by 2.5mm cable. Personally I'd wire it in 2.5mm cable and down the MCB to a B16. This...

I hate to be pedantic but presumably the heater will have some status LEDs, where some of the input energy will be converted to light and perhaps you'll loose some of the energy to sound too, so not truly 100% efficient :-) I think this thread gives a great insight into the complexities of...

What does the instruction manual say? I'm not being flippant, it does what the manufacturer has decided it will do and that could be a number of things.

You've got a shower room and a pump room? That's got to be a hell of a power shower.

Sounds like you need to install a fan into the lamp shade to increase air flow and hence cooling.

My interpretation is this: The OP had some work done by a spark and he added an earthing clamp to the gas pipe. It was connected 600mm away from the meter and after an joint in the pipe. The spark told him this was acceptable because the connection was made within 600mm of the meter and was...

Centrifugal fan eh? Can it separate blood sample while drying your bathroom?

Sounds like a ring final then? :-)

Presumably when it develops a fault it becomes the AO (Abnormally Open) terminal?

If you use two light beams a small distance apart, one can deduce direction of travel. You could also augment the arrangement with some PIRs along the drive. If you want to be really off-the-wall, run a light curtain the length of the drive or have a video camera with image recognition...

What are you trying to achieve?