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The cooker is electric as is the hob. But I am going to take a closer look tonight to try to get to the bottom of it, and if it looks as if there is a potential problem we will just have to get the building firm back who did the house! But I wonder how they got it passed building control...

the original house is 1970s but the fuseboard looks more recent. What I cant understand is that for a 4 bedroom house there is only about 6 fuses being used. I guess the way to check it is take the cover off the consumer unit and see which MSBs have wires into them!

Its the MCB I am turning off. I can see the lighting is on 2 MCBs the opposite side of the board (I assume therefore not protected by the RCD), but its when I turn off the MCB all this goes off hence my reason for thinking that its all wired into one circuit. Havnt got a picture at the moment...

didnt even know you could coonect rain water into sewer drains? Anyway the Accos would connect straight into the rainwater drainage system that exits heaven knows where, I just connected it to the original system that was there from the original building that was altered a bit to accomodate the...

Ok, when everything appears to be working fine and I turn off the switch at the fuseboard the whole house sockets stop working as does the cooker, tumble dryer and anything else plugged into a socket. Surely this would indicate that some clown has wired the lot into this one circuit? Neil

A good friend of mine has recently had a new extension put on his house and part of this work involved obviously electrical work. However the problem I am about to point on we cannot be sure if it was like this before the extension was built. Anyway the upshot of it is that when his wife was...

I am about to lay a new Patio at the rear of my house. The way the land lies and indeed the way its already been dug it would be much easier for me to slope the Patio towards the house rather than conventionally away and place the Acco drains along the boundary of the house. Can you please tell...

I am sure this has been asked many times, but cant find this on a search. I have downlights installed pretty much all over the top floor of my house thus into the loft. Insulation is layed with gaps where the downlights are. Just looking at possibilities, but IF I wanted to board out my loft how...

Good afternoon, just after bit of advice really........ I have a room which is approx 28sq mtrs in size and want to lay a solid wood floor in it. I have purchased the flooring already which has come in random planks of tongue and groove oak. The floor it is to be laid on is a floating...

many thanks for your help. Will probably just stick with the terminal block as there a bit smaller than a junction box else my ceiling will be full of boxes! :)

Putting some downlighters in my ceiling and have a couple of questions:- 1) The terminal blocks on the actual light fitting are too small to accept 2 cables (cable in and the one back out again to next light). Is it acceptable to use a terminal block in the ceiling for the 2 wires to go into...

if I cap the top of the stack how are they gona see the level of the water if it falls? I currently have nothing attached to the pipe and I thought that was how it had to stay till council passed it off?

I am just doing the final bits now to what has been a somewhat eventfull extension project. The new bit has all be wired etc etc. My original kitchen wall that has now been knocked out housed all my sockets for the kitchen. These are currently just rolled and tied up on the ceiling. I am now at...

The council have to come out to see a test on my new stack pipe I have installed on my extension. What does this involve? Do I just cap off the inlet in the manhole and fill the stack pipe with water and cross my fingers while the council man looks on??? Thanks for your help.

Ive understood the bit that I need an rcd for my underfloor heating, I plan on installing the Warm-Up wire type. But do I need to insall another rcd or does the one on the consumer unit count? What I wanted to do was spur off the socket ring main to power the underfloor heating and thermostat...

ive just spent a silly amount on a wet room system. So basically I now have a wetroom shower tray sat on the joists. The outlet is 3 joists away from the stack pipe. Lifting the tray really isnt an option for me as the whole point is to have a room all on the same level including the shower. I...

hmmmm so how do i gt my waste away from the shower room then? any other methods?

I am putting a wet room in my firt floor en suite bathroom. My problem is that the waste outlet is about 3 joists away from the stck pipe. Am I allowed to cut 38mm holes in the joists and if so where abouts do I have to put them to keep within current regulations?? Many thanks in advance for...

in that case then I would suspect I should be ok. The only cable running down the cavity on the now internal wall will be the 25mm armoured 3 core to the consumer unit, the only other cables that will run directly through the cavity are all the cables that go from the extension into the original...

I bought some dimmer from TLC (varilight ones) and they are rated for halogen lighting. I have 500w of lights on a 600w dimmer so no need to double up on these as they were rated for the Halogen lighting.