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Doing a job a while back, the customers wife asks me to look at their loft light while I'm there. When they plug it in they get an occasional 'shocks' off the alli loft ladder. This was the supply to the light Approx 5m long, with a 13A fused plug on the end (not an RCD anywhere...

I have the armeg box cutting kit, fab for new builds/extensions (breeze/clinker block etc) takes about 5 mins to cut a DSSO box in, but more hastle than its worth with Brick. Used it probably about 10 times in the last 18 months, normally stick to just pepper potting the wall with a 12mm...

Have you added a outside light to the shed and changed the internal 1g to a 2g switch ?? If thats the case then it may be that your 'feed cable' is in fact the switchline for the existing light, i.e theres no neutral at the switch. If both lights are using normal 60w lamps (not low energy...

Is there a white fuse holder on the far right next to the main switch ?? I think I can make one out in the photo, the flash blends it in with the CU. If there is, that may well be your lighting. Normally rewireable fuses are colour coded with white dots for 5A, blue for 15A, and Red for...

....anyone used it & have any comments ? Thinking of using it on an upcoming install, small R&D room (just built) which requires approx 6 DSSOs. Was going to run this past the client as he will probably want the flexibilty... or should I say he normally changes his mind on locations...

I have just completed a kitchen where the client insisted they wanted downlights (despite my best efforts), to replace the two 60w pendants they had. I fitted 8x 50w 230v downlights in a kitchen approx 2.5mx4m. So thats 400w instead of 120w (or less than 30w using CFLs), and they say its...

How about using these http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/AP603.html converts the standard metal backbox to a drylining...[/url]

Posted this a while back just after my 1st DI assessment (I'd done a CU change on my house and an extra light fitting on another house) ... the yearly assessments have basically followed it to one degree or another depending on the assessor.. Started off going through all my...

Contacted electrum as I have several installs with wylex 6A & 16A breakers between the specified dates, its now been three weeks and still not recieved anything (not even a confirmation) Have called the hotline back twice and tried the online form but they can't tell me when I'll recieve...

Mates just called me, he's just had his boiler replaced by a well known national company, and he's expressed concern about how the boiler has been wired. He was told its fine by the installer and that the job is now complete and commisioned... The existing boiler feed (1.5T&E) has been...

First page of the electrical section in a well known sheds catalogue... :roll:

Last job I had to terminate a SWA into a domestic CU I used a single gang MK metclad surface box with a blank plate. Owner was quite specific that they didn't want anything too industrial looking so a shiney metclad seemed the way to go.....

Mine used to keep having funny five minutes, best one was it detecting cable/voltage in a wooden studwall frame... strange thing was there was nothing in it....just the woodwork and plain old plasterboard I just wanted to find the frame to put my backboxes in...... Got fed up with it giving...