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It's not quite as simple as doing the work then getting a spark to connect to CU. You need to speak to your local Building control as each one is slightly different. Mine told me that if I could do all the fitting and testing and then they would come round and check it (whatever that means) and...

If you can get the bath panel off at a later time without destroying it then yes no problem. (eg you haven't attached with screws then tiled over it) However if you need a tool to get the bath panel off then under the bath is excluded from the bathroom zones and you only need to bond the pipes...

I would say get some plasterboard the same thickness as what is up there (you may have to take one lamp out and measure it and cut out a ring that will sit in the hole and has a hole in the middle for your light. Take two small battens of wood and lay them inside the opening, They should cross...

Is that visable or accessible? Surely you can have bonding under the bath behind the panel where it's not visable or even chased into the wall for heaters etc providing the joints are accesible for inspection? Please correct me if I'm wrong though as I am just a diyer not a pro

I guess it will vary house to house I'm afraid. All my wiring is in the loft, but I live in a bungalow with concrete floors so it has to. I guess in a modern two story most of it will be between downstairs ceiling and upstairs floor. You'll just have to get up there and check. Could you...

I agree with Paul I would only do this if it was a final resort. Just thinking of the future owner, if they wanted to replace the faceplate or something it could easily happen that they might assume the socket was on the ring and turn off the wrong circuit. This happened to me with a socket in...

If it were me (although i'm just a diyer not a spark) I'd try disconnecting the lighting circuit at the CU (with everything turned off obviously) then stick the power back on (again, with all ppropriate covers replaced) and try to see if the RCD will reset when not connected to anything. If it...

Hi Tony I'm writing this post because I am/have been in similar situations. I am a diyer, I'm not a spark, but i have done all the electrical work in our house myself and I have got I think a fairly good understanding of electrics. I know very well that it is an absolute a*** to have to do...

Ideally yes, but the current follows the path of least resistance. It could be that because your copper water pipes have a huge cross section compared to your ring earth conductor the current may pass through the water pipe insead. As John D says, there are loads of things that can cause faults...

The way I alway imagine cross bonding is like this. Your having a wash in the morning and just as you turn the taps off your washing machine shakes a live wire loose inside and it touches an earthed bit. The current flows to earth by the path of least resistance. Because you are wet and have a...

Cheers Simon. I had imagined that using a junction box would introduce interference but thought that an unshielded splitter would be similar. Cheers for letting me know different. You are correct in saying that there would only ever be one sky box in place at any one time, but maybe best to...

Hi All, hope this is just a quick one. Is splitting an ariel and/or sky cable with a small junction box sensible or daft? Just chased in my ariel and sky cables down one side of our chimney breast in the lounge, had the room replasteed and redecorated. Now the missus has decided we want the...

cheers crafty. Glad to get a second oppinion, especially where other peoples safety is of concern. Ta phil

I can't quite remember the definition of extraneous conductive part, but I always took it to be any metal bit that sticks out of your house (please correct me if wrong) I included the overflow pipe in that so bonded it. To me it seemed quite useless, but by the letter of the regs seemed...

Hi everyone I'm back to ask another question of you all. I've got a plasterer coming round later this week to skim my lounge and hallway. So that he can plaster round the sockets I need to take the faces off but want some advice on how to make everything safe. I do have two radial sockets...

I'm presuming if it's dry lined it is a fairly modern wall if not a modern house. If so is the plumbing plastic rather than copper? We have plastic pipe and as it heats up it expands(much more than copper). This means that at about 6 in the morning as the central heating comes on the pipes...

Back on topic... I read somewhere that you should expect PVC cable to have a lifetime of 30-35 years on average. So you (and I0 are probably reaching the end of that lifetime. As john D says the regulations have changes since then so some stuff may need upgrading. Your bonding (to the gas and...

Cheers for the quick reply Adam That's one vote for earthing then. By the way what do you mean by the tem 'flylead'? Oh there are no other sockets or anything else to supplimentary bond. YAY! :lol:

Hi Sorry for this, I know you must all be sick of bathroom earthing questions. I have a fairly simple bathroom set up as far as electrics are concerned. Plastic pipe throughout and SELV lighting so no supplimentary bonding issues there. I have an earth free extractor fan in the loft connected...

As a DIYer (still trying to learn) to another DIYer I would offer a little advice. The heights are probably irrelivant, as was posted earlier, replacement sockets were probably put in the holes in the skirting left by the old ones to save replacing all the skirtings. If the fittings are all...