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    s plans and y plans

    I could.
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    Replacing a light fitting in an ensuite

    You can change a light fitting even in a bathroom or kitchen without troubling Big Brother, here's a table of what you can and can't (if a stickler for the rules, however onerous) do: http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/partp.htm Please be aware though that before starting any non...
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    Combined 1 gang socket + TV aerial socket?

    If you look behind a 1 gang socket outlet, you won't see enough spare space to fit a coax outlet even if someone did have the rather odd idea to put one there. Plus there'd probably be some health and safety hysteria about letting people touch their own sockets to get at the coax if one were...
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    Consumer Unit Tripping From The Shower

    I didn't tell him the whole cable was suitable, he has stated it is. My advice is based on the information received. If you have any currently baseless concerns about his ability to recognise what size a cable is and suspicions that it has been badly laid, you need to address them to the...
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    Ceiling PIR light switch query.

    http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/DNCESFPIR.html Plenty of PIR switches about, you'd just need to check if it's ok for a bathroom. Which zone?
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    Using a resistor to reduce voltage

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Transformers-Dirt-Boss-Decepticon-Wave-4-Scout-/120652425142?pt=UK_ToysGames_ActionFigures_ActionFigures_JN&hash=item1c1771e7b6
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    Consumer Unit Tripping From The Shower

    Good point, but in that case he'll be wanting a different electrician to put in at the least a seperate RCD box serving the shower.
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    Consumer Unit Tripping From The Shower

    6mm is fine so long as the run is under 18 metres, but it would have been better to use 10mm to keep your new shower options open. There's no problem just swapping the fuse on a modern CU for the right one, provided there is no fault on the circuit. Your electrician cocked it up (technical...
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    Adding an RCD to power shower

    It's one of the more important bits to cover with an RCD. I'd go so far as recommending you send the wife in first until it has one.
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    New Shower Pump RCD tripping

    To be honest if you don't have any test equipment you should consider hiring someone who does. Any electrician will have an RCD tester, they can also check the cable and advise if you may want to consider sticking this thing on it's own RCBO, which I would do. If you have a lot on the circuit...
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    Lighting cable too short to fit new spotlight

    So you're asking if there is such a thing as a junction box?
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    Using a resistor to reduce voltage

    The resistor size required would depend on the resistance of the appliance, and whatever rating it turns out to be I'm guessing you'd set fire to the carpet. Go have a look on ebay for a 12v power supply.
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    new light and switch to old wiring

    You've already been told what you've done wrong, but you don't seem to have the basic level of knowledge necessary to understand it. You shouldn't be doing this work, it's not safe for you, get someone in.
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    CONSUMER UNIT CHANGE

    I had to have my new ferrari modified so i'd have room to unfurl my enormous penis in it. Alternatively I might be lying on the internet..
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    Help with airing cupboard wiring

    The pump handbook will specify the cable rating, the fuse rating, any isolation switch requirement and whether RCD protection is required (it is). Basically all you need to know.
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    Help with airing cupboard wiring

    Full instrutions on the wiring requirements will come with the pump.
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    Kitchen under cabinet lighting.

    Don't worry about mr sheds, he doesn't like DIYers and gets kind of obsessive about T&E. It's a simple connection, snip the end of one of the link leads if necessary and use a junction box. All you'd ever have to rewire with new lights is from the JB and you have easy access to it under the...
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    Help with airing cupboard wiring

    Have you checked if there's any juice to the switch? It might have taken involuntary redundancy at some point in the past. Regardless you can't use it if you don't know what it is.
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    Existing electrics for pond pump and filter.

    He's from California, it's a Spanish speaking part of North America but I suspect the real problem is that his post contained the words 'nitrate' and 'ammonia'. Automatic scrambling by the NSA occurs in that circumstance and a blackhawk is despatched to his house.
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    Please help - pond pump & filter tripping circuit

    ha ha, I like that :lol:
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