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Guess it doesn't matter now you've swapped it, but I had a similar problem which was a result of the UV bulb fitting which is built in to a pondmaster pump. I swapped the fitting out and it solved the problem. Didn't need a pondmaster part in case anyone with a similar problem is reading this...

They arrange to pull the company fuse and then I have to pay to have a full inspection before the buggers will put it back in again. And the full inspection will find nothing my trusty set of Robin meters won't. There's nothing wrong with my work, and I'll tell you what, the kind of person...

All I can tell you is if I were doing it, and i've done similar DIYing on occasion, I'd want to see what I'm about. Lift the floor, or hole the ceiling. Or if you want dirt cheap and don't care about appearance, you can consider surface trunking. The really, really old stuff ive seen has been...

Tell him to get a job.

Depends how they're run, is it singles in the old conduit or T&E? Singles in conduit you should be able to pull through. T&E run through the joists, I've always found is liable to catch and damage the insulation. I'd always approach from above, i.e. lift the floor rather than cut the...

You need to rewire that circuit entirely, and if you weren't aware of that much you shouldn't really be trying it. Nice hood, but the electrician and making good after him will cost you about 20 times as much. Also it doesn't come with filters for recirculation, which is always annoying...

They link together series, the type pictured anyway. I'd guess that's standard in pelmet lighting.

I just snipped the end off one of the link leads and used a little junction box hidden behind the pelmet. As I recall they don't actually have an earth. You'll need a fused outlet if you're coming off the power circuit though.

I have these in my kitchen, had to replace three out of six (fittings, not just bulbs) over four years. I wouldn't buy them again.

There's a chap coming round in a couple of days with his little clipboard before I can actually start, I assume we'll set the rest of the schedule then. I've done my own electrics and plumbing for a long time, still have all my fingers and my feet are dry. I'm going to keep doing them...

Hi, as I said I wouldn't see any point in conduit underfloor, I just wasn't sure if any daft new regs have come in with the latest batch. It's notifiable work which I'm doing myself, hence the inspection, and I'm using t&e because it's what I'm used to and the standard for a domestic install...

Hi, I have a few questions regarding when to use conduit, the regs and also best practice if that goes beyond the regs- Running some 1.5 and 2.5 T&E cable, are there any conduit requirements for the space between a plasterboard ceiling and the floorboards? (The 2.5s will be on RCBO circuits...

Thank you, that's very helpful.

Hello, hopefully this is quite a straightforward question - basically I'm removing a 2' by 4' approx section of lathe and plaster sloped ceiling so I can sister a damaged rafter (penetrating damp, now cured) and I will be patching the hole with plasterboard fixed to the rafters. The plaster...

Alrighty, I downgraded the circuit to a 20A MCB, and disconnected everything after the first outlet which includes the bizarre live floor tile adhesive. The boiler is hooked in from that first outlet, protected by a 3A fuse, so she at least has heat, and there's still one outlet in the kitchen...

What i mean is, there is no ring, the whole circuit is hooked up like a lighting circuit with one 2.5 cable out of the CU, it has the two sockets in the kitchen, two in the hall with a fridge, tumbledryer and washingmachine, and spurred off it is a fused light, and the boiler and a towel rail...

I was assuming it was a ring because i saw two cables, but when I took off the sockets and unhooked the wires it turned out that it's only live at one end, the second cable is actually just a feed for two sockets in the kitchen. I should have realised when unhooking that one socket did kill the...

Thank you for the help. These two cables are the new colours, I guess put in with the extension as a ring hooked into a junction box somewhere with the single cable back to the CU. As part of my prior investigations i found the first box on the new ring (which is after the suspected...

It generally takes an hour or so to trip. You think this might be an unrelated fault then? And I am at least right in telling her that a voltage reading proves a fault, if not the fault, and she should have that fixed? 160A to trip one? Wouldn't that take out the company fuse?

OK, there's a tiny little back extension which leaks down the side in one spot, where there are no electric outlets. Following the circuit round though, it does come through the wall at that point and duck under the tiled floor of the extension. Using my little multimeter set to 10V ac, I got...