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Hi RF Lighting I’ll check that one out about the isolating transformer in the shaver. The height from floor to ceiling is 2.29 metres, obviously it will be less than this measured from inside the bath and also from inside the shower tray, the light fittings IP44 is protected against solid...

Thanks for the prompt reply spark123, yep the main 10mm2 bonding is in onto the gas and rising water main. Can I pick your brain a bit more in the same room there is lighting circuit switch, which could be touched at the same time as a tap, as the lighting circuit is not on an RCD would I...

Hi can anyone help me, and before anyone says yes I will have the wiring checked before switching on, but want to get as much of it correct myself before doing so. In the utility room there is a double power point and two double poled isolating switches above a work surface all of which are...

Hi can anyone help, I understand you can find websites on how to make bombs, I must be hopeless because I can’t even manage to find a website on how to install a double glazed unit into a pvc window frame and also into a wooden frame. Single glazing I’ve done just get the old mastic gun out...

Hi Crafty & Ban Thank you both very much for your help and useful site links. I think I will crack on with the lighting wiring and have a think along the way whether to use LV in the bathroom. I know there are some pre wired LV kits available I may have a look at them, if you know of any...

Hi Crafty As I said to ban all sheds earlier 27/01/06, the whole house needs rewiring, I had an electrical report done on it before purchase. I won’t go into to much detail about it, but there were things like the water heater on the same circuit as the outside lights, no earth in some of...

Thanks Crafty Just letting you know, I'd like to ask you a bit more about the lighting wiring tomorrow. All the best for now Clive

Hi Ban I have managed to find someone prepared to check the work, always of course providing he will still do it when the time comes, I guess its just a chance I will have to take, however it’s strange how the local building control can send their inspectors out to check building work but...

Hi Crafty Thank you very much for your reply, I must admit I do need educating, you see I have never fitted low voltage lights before. All I have ever put in a bathroom is one central ceiling light usually 100 watts, 240v because I do like a good light. I have seen these LV down lights...

Hi Ban Thank you for your reply, I am doing a complete house re-wire, and yes I do know the work is notifiable, well at least if I don’t want problems should I wish to re-sell the house. But yes I shall have all the work checked after the first and second fix by an electrician registered...

I intend to fit six IP65 12V light fittings in my bathroom, the wattage of each lamp will be 50W. Could anyone advise on what size transformer I will need to drive them, or will each lamp need to be on it’s own transformer, also what size cable will I require on the low voltage side and...

Hi Andy Thanks for your comments, as I understand it a cooker consists of an oven and a hob, and I believe diversity can be applied in that case because it is assumed that not all rings and oven would be on at any one time, whereas an oven be it a double one. Both could be on at the same...

Am I ok to use 6mm cable for an electric oven, I assume diversity will not come into it as the hob is gas. The maximum wattage is 5200, the cable run is 7 metres from the consumer unit and bunched with about three other cables through holes drilled in the floor joists and not in contact...

Hi spark 123 First I must say there is defiantly a need for bonding in the kitchen illustration which ban-all-sheds has posted and I wish I could be the one to do it, and no it wouldn’t be the supplementary kind lol. There was a tag on most sink tops providing a point for the earth...

Hi securespark I know that sparks did use to cross bond sinks in kitchen locations, but you are right I’ve just looked in the iee on site guide. Only thing is, it doesn’t state why it’s no longer required. I always like to know the reason behind things, do you know the reason why by...

Hi Nipster Sockets near a steel sink, what I have seen sparks do is the socket would obviously be earthed in the normal way when running a ring main. But then they have run a further earth wire from the socket outlet in question and connected it directly onto the rising main under the...

Personally I’d bury it in the wall, no not a body, but can anyone advise does it conform to the IEE Regs these days to run a cable in plastic mini trunking with a snap on lid from the ceiling in a bathroom into a shower enclosure mounted over a bath. Mastic has been used to form a seal where...