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When you say reset button, do you mean the RCD?

At least you appear to have an earth, a lot of properties round here(and all over the country)use the conduit as earth. Due to the difficulty of getting new cables in most have to ensure they use double insulated fittings.You need to check that it is indeed an earth and goes back to the main...

Can anyone help? Our sky box(basic sky) has gone belly up, been given a skyplus box. On installation we get all the normal terrestrial channels and the message "insert card"for sky channels, the card is inserted. What do we need to do to activate the card?

You really need to make sure that it IS a radial circuit and not a spur off a ring final circuit.

Somewhere in the circuit the lights are wired in series. Your electrician will soon sort that out.

I think that after a period of over twelve months they have either done the job or bought a new one.

As long as the j/b is accessible for maintainance they can be used. Ther is nothing wrong with using the "loop in" system the ceiling roses are quite capable of taking the cables.

They look like dimmer units, You can get new modules from most electrical dealers.

Hi BAS, I think he means by the electrician. Nobody on here would do that, would they? :D

With the hoover running you were opening the switch under load, it is quite common to see a flash under those circumstances. What was running when your gran switched off?

Please do not take this the wrong way, BUT you do not seem to know very much about electrics at all. A RADIAL circuit is basically one cable(normally 4.0 or 6.0mm2) running to a series of sockets, and a RING FINAL is as the name suggests is a ring of sockets with the cable(normally 2.5mm2)...

You didn't note which wires went where did you ?. You really need to use a meter to find which is the live and which are the switch lives.

If there is an "edge" in the sag then you could dilute a bit of PVA with water and put it in a squirt bottle, spray behind the paper and smooth out.

Get a plumber in to fit a new connection before the storage tank and that should fix your problem.

You would have the same problem if the frog was at the top,depending where you drill. Cut your recess and fill any large holes with a bit of mortar and the bits of brick you have chopped out.

My last house was an Edwardian Semi, with sockets on the S/B. I moved them up to the wall during the re-wire(TRS cable) and used the holes left to mount aluminium plates with all the A/V connections. If you use a long masonry drill they do have a degree of flexibility and can run down behind the...

I have a combination of domestic and commercial waste. The council insist on a waste transfer licence and orange bags for commercial and a Grey wheelie for general, a Blue for bottles,plastic and glass. When we argued that we didn't need the bags as we re-cycled our waste they threatened us with...

Not too sure of the regs nowadays, But you used to have to have two doors between the kitchen and the loo and the basin was required.

From previous experience the fire inspector will demand them.

pic of the inside of junction box would be helpful.