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I have installed all my own electrics in my house, showers, alarms, Jaccuzzi, Shed already has electric, But i want to do the best job with the best advice, By the way i have bought 16mm SWA to connect to my 16MM Twin and earth. Cost about £100, but it will be worth it. Which means i should be...

so it would need to be 16mm twin and earth and 16mm swa? I can buy another consumer unit small one to bring the current down, for the SWA. So would be 16mm from main CU, to another consumer unit, then 10 mm from new consumer unit to garage consumer unit. WOW sounds a pain, i think i have some...

i am thinking for 16 mm cable as already in and routed under floors in house. then 10mm SWA cable to garage consumer unit. Garage has 3 trip switches 32 & 16 & 6amp. I have a spare 45 or 32 amp in house consumer unit.

Yes yello pipe is for gas, LOL, Only for lights, sockets, and will be using normal power tools and maybe a welder. Any idea what size swa i need to connect to 16mm twin and earth? Will leave connection boxes in house and take SWA to garage, Thks.

I want to connect some electric to inside garage, I have had all the work done, Plastic yellow pipe about 4 inches round under floor in house and under garage base then under block paving outside garage at least 50cm deep. Can i use noraml 16MM twin and earth cable??? From inside/house consumer...

I would think this would supply other points in the house. Maybe outside lights or a water heater/boiler. As for putting sockets in its place, what ever this supplies would then be permanently powered ON and what appliances are you using? If these are connected to a small fuse in the consumer...

Are You sure this is for a 13 amp plug? Thick cable how thick? 6mm2 or similar? I would get a electrician in if you are not sure. Do not make the came fit into to something it that is not designed for the cable.

I am looking to paint the walls of my house with some kind of resin or similar, i have my own compressor and want to spray it on i can buy a different spray gun if need, be. The only thing is i can not find any suppliers of this or similar paint for walls, I want to cover the breaks up so you...

decided against it have ordered 5 meter pipes instead of 4 cheers,

Found this on http://www.energysafety.wa.gov.au/energysafety/media_include/electrical_focus_31.pdf Up to 1,000 Nominal Voltage within 0.5 m of live insulated conductors within 1.0 m of live uninsulated conductors, so should be okay,

I am fitting and air conditioning metal unit to the side of my house, I have three overhead cables coming in at the side, the outdoor unit will be about 75 cm, 30 inches away from these wires. These wires are covered in plastic looks like Live and neutral the earth is bare wire, will it be ok to...

I would just hope everything is water tight and watersealed, if it were to leak, normally near the pump or connections to pump it would certainly be dangerous!!

My brother in law done that once, One of the black wires is live, he managed to sort it using a 4 way connector block all red together,all earths together, all blacks together apart from live, and the live black by itself. Then live blck to red on light, all earths to earth all neutrals to...

thanks for the help I have connected +12 and 0v up to spare connectors in alarm panel box and connected the strobe negative to the back bellbox disconnected sounder, so the two leds work flashing away and strobe works when front strobe works, Thanks.

sorry yes two 6 core cables, not to familier with relays only ones i seen are on cars, i am good at soldering so i could solder the relay somewhere inside if you could give me instructions and which relay to buy?

i have installed a ADE accenta mini g3 alarm, works great but i want to add an extra bellbox to the back of the house. The font bellbox is a ADE response 8, the back one is unknow make/model, white with blue border for 360 degree strobing. on the circuit board it has +12 volts, 0v,tam 0v, neg...

Right got electric working for now, never thought of taking the neutral out of the rcd neutral bar. just done it and sockets are on tried turning everything on and seems okay only thing i have not tried is extension and drill will try this tomorrow and will move sockets over to rcd side again in...

My downstairs sockets have just tripped out today, i was outside using the drill and the electric went off. I turned the rcd back on but it will not stay on as soon as i turn it on it just goes off. So i unplugged the downstairs socket wire on the mcb and moved it over to none rcd protected side...

Is this still live? does it need soting out? i have found numerous backplates in my house all dead, this was an old council house and Council just plastered over them or filled them in when the house was rewired,

i have already ordered a consumer unit, same as you mentioned, I have also bought the wylex RCD, WHAT CAN I USE THE RCD for then will it not just fit in the board somewhere to use later?, Later i will be building a garage can i connect garage to this???