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The question is not quite as simple as it seems. Last week I replaced a socket in my the room I was doing up. To my surprise there was no flylead to earth the backbox, the socket itself was earthed but not the box. So I put in a new sleeved earth from the socket to the backbox. However from...

The live has earth sleeving on, took me a few seconds to spot it. As for the second one, it is the first time I have ever seen that!

The PC hopefully it will just need a new PSU, modern PSUs are very good at protecting the rest of the components. Again hopefully the laptop just needs a new transformer.

I can't work out if you're just a troll. Are you really really that ignorant? If you carry on doing electrical work you will kill somebody. Stop right now!. I would never do what you have just done without having proper test equipment, it would be a job for a sparkie.

Don't worry, I am sure he knows a good builder to replace the ceiling joists when the down-lighters set fire to them all! I do a bit of DIY electrical work myself, but I am not arrogant and think electricians charge a decent rate for the work and responsibility involved. But the OP has done...

Been re plastering the bedroom which has involved putting the old switch drop in metal cladding and fitting a new light fitting. The light fitting was the usual nightmare as nothing was labelled with tape so it was all guess work, but I have put brown insulation tape on the switch drop cable, so...

I would be interested to know why the transformer is blowing, we have three 12v down lights in the bathroom. They must be about 12 years old now and still on the original transformer.

Yep even replacing a socket requires some level of skill and little things you may not know. Like the earth wire needs to be sleeved. To be fair the OP didn't say he will fix this himself :)

As I am not a spark (merely just a passer by with a breif interest in electronics) the sparks here are saying is your holes on your socket were faulty. This meant that pins in the plug were not making the correct contact. 8-13 amps (a lot of power) through a bad connection will cause arcing...

Thanks :) I think I will just use the 6 way extension and just neaten it up a bit. There is no RCD protection but replacing the consumer is on the list of jobs to do. I so I may as well just get the spark to wire in the socket properly when he replaces the consumer unit. I forgot about the...

I could do with an extra socket in one of the bedrooms, it needs replastering and thought this would be a good time to add the extra socket. I suspect existing socket might be a spur (not checked yet) but if it is, could I simply add a 13 amp FCU to the existing socket and run a new socket...

Possibly it includes some usage. My bill is £20 plus what ever I use. The £20 is supposed to cover street lighting (the car parks etc) heating in the public buildings and I suspect profit. I get billed by the owners of the estate and not by the utility company so I suspect the owners own the...

I have a strange problem. My workshop is rented and is in a business park, there is over 100 units there and each unit has its own meter but its in a meter room and I don't have access to it. I use it to repair PCs, I am there around 5 hours a day 5 days a week so 25 hours per week, 100 per...

I will do, but what is the chances of a false RCD trip? I have no experience with RCDs at all. If false trips are likely, then I a few none protected outlets too.

I am not sure what the big mistake is. I assume the tails are a major problem as the metre needs to be located close to the CU. Also how did he extend all the cables? I am guessing he has done something much more flawed than that though. EDIT not seen part two yet!

Schukosteckdosen im 90 ° Winkel, ideal für Winkelstecker. - Ideal für Winkelstecker und Netzteile Which translates to When translated to English Sockets at a 90 ° angle, ideal for angle plug. - Ideal for Angle and Power Supplies OK I am being silly now :D thanks to Google translate.

I suspect it maybe purely translated from German into English, unless that is normal for TLC. I normally use Alert so never used TLC.

I think I will buy a couple of these http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/BSTS12G.html Will solve the problem and is cheap :). Thanks very much for giving me the idea. It will be mostly running router/viop phone/phone charger/laptop 1/2 desktops and external hard drives etc.

Yeah fake ones.

If he can speak Mandarin or other Chinese languages this will put him at an advantage to Chineese businesses who may not have good English. There is a Chineese printing company at the business park I am based at, and they do a lot printing for most the Chinese take aways in Manchester for that...