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hi we have our kitchen work started today. there was a suspended ceiling in kitchen (like in office). behind suspended ceiling was the original ceiling. plan was to remove suspended ceiling and plasterboard over the old original ceiling. today once suspended ceiling was removed, we found...

hi A friend is having new kitchen fitted. At same time he is getting the very old consumer unit updated to 17th edition CU with RCDs, splitting socket ring circuits in two radial (currently all sockets are on one ring circuit) and having new circuit for kitchen. All switches/ sockets in...

I would ask him to check.

Bathroom supply is through separate RCD box.

One more question Is there any guidance on what is the maximum loading that can be supported on a single circuit. May be he can add up wattage of all devices normally connected and see what happens! what is typical diversity factor for such household calculations? i am attaching a photo...

Thanks. Did u have ECIR done and any idea approximately how much it costed to run a new circuit.

So will this report, which I presume will include some testing, confirm whether RCD is suitable or not I am just thinking if report doesn't identify any major issues (it's a assumption I kniw) , he changes CU with Rcd and then problems start appearing! I though. Also I thought rcd is more...

Thanks for ur replies. He is planning to get fuse board changed with rcd protection. Plan was to do it in six months time but it can be brought forward to be done just before kitchen work starts. Then presumably when kitchen wall tiles are ripped off, new Wiring may be done.

Hi One of the friends has just discovered that all the sockets in his house are on one circuit. Its a semi detached from 1950. He has a old style fuse box with MCBs. I He has not had any nuisance tripping or other problems in the house. Kitchen has electric cooker and oven but they are on...

Thanks. Will get Boiler cover installed as per manual. Thanks

Hi We have honeywell 9400c control panel right next to our boiler housin. As part of new kit chen the tiling on all walls is to be removed and Boiler boxed in. Can someone advice me what would be involved in removing the panel for removing tiles and then relocating the panel slightly...

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Thanks. Any idea if it's expensive to repair?

Out of honest interest how can one decide by looking at some GU10 halogen in two pictures and confirm that they are poor quality. every gU10 halogen that i have seen looks just like that to me!

thanks for your reply. as you can see Existing ones are not LED but standard GU10 halogen. As far as i can tell every GU10 bulb i have seen looks like that. I appreciate these may or may not be the best quality. Question i have been asking all along is not whether to replace but to find out...

hi we are in a semi detached house. when in loft today i saw some water on one of the timber truss (the members which run at an angle just like roof). Truss is one on the chimney side. it appeared water originated from where the truss is connected to chimney at top and appeared to run...