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Hi, In the new home I moved into I have realized that one spur socket does not work. Looking into it, it turns out that spur socket has its wiring chopped off in the main socket the spur socket was meant to be connected to (why would someone do that, having gone through the pain of getting a...

The one in my original 2nd pic (with L, 1 and 2) is MK. I wired it up with L being com and 1 being L1 and the switch with turn light on when pressign the switch down. I have now a complication in the stairs where one 2 way + one intermediate are upstairs and one 2 way is downstairs, all...

Hi, I am replacing some old 2-way light switches (first pic attached) with new 2-way light switches (second pic attached). I am slightly confused about terminal 1 in the new switch being close to "L" (i.e. common), given that the layout of the old switch is different. Also, the wiring diagram...

The previous owner agreed to remove it for me and will take it and install it in his new place

takes space in the garden / patio area plus the way the back of the house is built (and it was built without the conservatory, which was added by the previous owner) means in order to get to the garden / patio you need to go through the conservatory, i.e. there is no direct access from the house...

Spot on conny. I have just removed the spur cable pulling from the kitchen socket, removed external socket and its back box and now just left with hole. Will fill in with plastic back box and blanking tape while I get a brick to fill the hole in.

There is also the option of removing the metal back box and filling in the hole with a spare brick... Not sure where I would put the wiring though

They are reconstituted stones. The previous owners disconnected the wiring from the sockets, knowing I was going to remove the conservatory, but left the wiring floating behind the plate (!) so I thought of terminal blocks as a temp solution. The conservatory is still there, btw, so the...

Hi, I have just moved into a new house, where the previous owners had a very basic conservatory with 2 double sockets in it. I am removing the conservatory and converting one of the 2 double sockets to an external IP66 socket. The other double socket is though redundant, given its location...

2 lines into one house? Why would one want that? I thought you could do everything with 1 line only, these days. Also, I would see no point in paying for 2 lines... Dunno.

I have recently bought a house and found out this strange BT socket arrangement/wiring (at least from me). The BT wires come from the outside world from the left wall in the image attached. This wire then goes into a rectangular box (a sort of splitter) which creates 2 wires, one going to the...