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Any idea when Edition 17 kicks in? I've done some searches but have not found anything.

How would someone use a chock block incorrectly? Or did you mean as ricicle said, ie make sure cores are pushed in properly and not poking out, etc, earth cores sleeved and patress earthed? Is there any requirement to provide mechanical mounting of the chock block within the patress?

May I suggest you study Ohm's Law?

Thanks Adam. Having read that it makes a lot of sense. I'll see if my local electrical wholesalers have anything like this in stock tomorrow. I think on balance this seems like my best option.

Space really is at a premium in the CU cupboard so I can't use anything too bulky. What sort of enclosure would you put it all in? In another thread I saw someone recommending this box for lighting stuff: http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/ASJ701.html I don't know what connectors he...

[/url] Thanks for that, though I've no idea what I'd do with any of those components! It'd be different if I saw an assembled box complete with connectors and cabling with my own eyes but just looking at a web page there of discrete components is for me like looking at a pile of jigsaw...

Do you have any links to suitable products? I did some searching but all I came up with was waterproof boxes and things that just didn't look right, or stuff about audio DIN connectors. It's going to be quite impractical to be able to rewire the first leg of each circuit as I can't really get...

When my boiler was installed a couple of years back they took power from the immersion feed. When they installed it, they asked if I used the immersion much. When I said no, they then took it as OK to take the power feed from there. Now that I'm doing some rewiring, is it frowned upon to...

I don't mean spurs. I'm replacing the consumer unit. The new one is bigger and will therefore have to sit in a slightly different place in the cupboard. The cables going into the existing one won't quite reach the new location by about 6 inches so I will need to extend them somehow. There...

Are choc strips and boxes accepted as perfectly reasonable things to use in domestic wiring? I've got quite a few tails to extend and these would be a lot neater than lods of JBs. I've seen a 60A choc strip too which would be handy for the cooker feed. Cheers, Kingsley.

what sort of time span is typical for neons left on 24/7 to start to fail? Are we talking maybe 2 years or is it more like 15 years? That said, I suppose the wiring is likely to be in place for longer than that so best not rely on it as the method of alert (I was going to label the CU anyway...

Also bear in mind that there's probably a maximum power you should draw for any given faceplate size regardless of the dimmer rating. I recently bought a couple of Richmond 500W grid dimmers and in the sheet that came with it, it said that you should not go more than 500W total load across...

I don't know how long neons last to be honest - I had assumed that they were things that lasted years and years. I guess that's not the case then :) Incidentally at the weekend I discovered that the previous owner's ring main extension that's feeding 3 double sockets (which includes the...

Wow, thanks for the quick response! Currently, the fridge and freezer are about 10 feet apart (with a doorway between them) but we may put them both together in future so I would want to make the socket by the fridge a double one just in case. As you're recommending a B16 breaker, I presume...

Hi, I'm fitting a new split load consumer unit and one of the things I'm doing is putting a new ring in the kitchen to separate it from the sockets in the rest of the house. I want to put the fridge and freezer onto their own feeds so that our food doesn't go off if something trips the RCD...

Thanks for your replies. If it turns out I have to resort to a Saniflow anyway, maybe it's worth me considering just using one for the loo and having the washbasin and shower on a seperate pipe, not going via the Saniflow. At least that reduces the risk of hair getting in and clogging up the...

Digging up the lounge sounds horribly disruptive. What is the typical cost for doing something like that? MOD see item 9

Having done a search on "saniflow" in this forum it seems that most people have little regard for them. Is there a better make? I'm going to be putting in an en-suite at the front of the house on the 1st floor. All plumbing is at the back, about 7 metres away. The pipes are going to have to...