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Spot on. Except in this case, the other stuff is mainly a 1930's Austin 7 that we really need to get round to doing up at some point.

I wish!

That's the idea, but one that will actually protect the tube rather than breaking with it. I really don't like the idea of bits of tube raining down on me if I knock it getting bits of timber out from between the beams.

I'm looking to put up a fluorescent tube to light an attached garage, replacing the pathetic bulkhead that's currently installed. I've got a suitable 4ft fitting and tube going spare, so I'd like to use it, but obviously it needs a cover to protect it. Is it possible to get such a retrofit...

From a theoretical point of view, the direct electric heating probably the most efficient system imaginable, since gas heating has the losses of not capturing all the heat from the combustion and losing heat in pipework and storage tank; and the conversion of energy into heat in the element of...

Live 11kV cable?

Yep, it was the notification issue I was getting at not entirely clear on my part. Thanks, what I was hoping to hear ;)

Hi All, Contemplating life recently, I realised that the metal cased class 1 waste disposal unit under the kitchen sink is not RCD protected given that the kitchen ring as a whole is not. This had me thinking that given its intimate contact with water and earthed pipework, and that users...

Surely should be using hi-tuff outdoors?

Apparently 11kV lines around cities are often built as rings, but there is always one switch breaking it into what might be thought of as radials. That way, if a line is damaged, the ring can be reconfigured to get a supply to the points that were downstream of the break. The system is not...

So it can't be used for radials?

So should the dimmer not be fused itself? Otherwise it can happily have 5A flowing through it indefinitely, at best breaking it and at worst starting a fire.

Yet they are allowed to be protected by a 6A MCB. Is there not something of a conflict there?

Indeed in some circumstances there could exist a dangerous potential difference between the local earth potential at the marquee and the house, if the PME were exported but badly such that the body of the marquee were not bonded, then the potential for a shock when touching the frame and an...

But you design for the worst case, not the best case.

My reading of it is that he plugged in the PAT machine in order to test portable appliances, it then complained about reverse polarity on the socket, which he then went on to investigate. Tim

You don't say how much of it you want to get rid of. As stated before, the biggest problem is the tap root, which you can never get to to cut. If you're happy to leave everything below 15cm or so deep, hire a professional with a stump grinder. Couple of hours later and it'll be no more. If...

Then you can just leave the end in the backbox and cover with a blanking plate. The reason you need junction strip for removing sockets is to continue the ring, with an aerial run there's nothing to continue.

Are you trying to extend the cable to somewhere else? If so, I'd personally terminate into an F connector and put a coupler in there, connected to the extending cable also fitted with an F connector. Tim