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it depends on how many holes. If not many then use a good quality hole saw. If a lot it may pay to get a hydraulic punch.

Fitting fire rated units will certainly help to maintain any fire barrier between up and downstairs. I would install as a matter of course.

If your up and down circuits are on different fuses you would have a problem. Use twin and earth 1.00mm from your supply (upstairs is probable easier) to the first detector and then three core and earth to link them.

Cheap bulbs?

Do you have wall on one side of the site? If so secure a length of your joist timber to it and build from that.

Most domestic telephone systems take a maximun of three as far as i can remember, usually daisy chained. It is referred to as R E N or ringer equivalent number.

Where does your T&E come from?

They should be, but in reality not always done. You really need to do a continuity check on the cable.

I have just had the exact same problem, living near the sea doesn't do them any good and was able to knock the handle(with my hand) and break the plastic part of the lock and open the handle.

Deffo horse hair.

If it "fell" out then it sounds as if the friction needs adjusting at the top of the ladder. Always push up the bottom section first and then the top, lower in the order of top then bottom. You should have a pole to reach the ladder from the ground.

Your best bet is to lift floorboards upstairs and see which way the cables run, looking at your pic it would seem that you already have a junction box somewhere in the run. What is the other large single for? Is it live?

If you do take the supply from the socket you will need to "downrate" the cable by running 2.5mm to a fused connector and fitting a 3a fuse then running 1.00 for the rest of the circuit. If you fit a Switched fused connector this can be used as the switch for the light if you can fit it in the...

Looks like a D I Y job of fitting a master socket, a slave can be run using terminals 2,3 and 5 and connecting the same at the other end.

Who said anything about digging a hole for them? :D

Nothing lost in trying that, it works on cars.

Make sure they don't wear nylon. :D

It sounds like a "cavity box" which do not normally have earth terminals. As already said just connect the earth to the terminal on the new socket. :)

You could try one of the "snakes". Available from most diy shops, run it up the "U" bend and wriggle it about as you go.

Normally the red would go in L1/com and the yellow and blue in L2 and L3