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Earth connections ? It is a TT circuit, so no earth from the supplier.

The set up is as follows: Meter to sealed Fuse ( outside the house in a cabinet) Sealed fuse using 16mm cables to a separate Voltage Operated breaker next to my CU which is inside the house From VOCB to the switch inside the CU again using 16mm cables The CU can be replaced by turning off...

I work as a mechanic and sometimes people ask me to fit their part to their car. I say fine, but as long as you realise if that part either doesn't work when fitted or if it fails after a while, then I can't give you any guarantees for it and it is down to you and whoever you bought it from to...

ok, he quoted me £350 to replace the CU. The other one quoted me £450 as said he would have to notify the council. However I told him he didn't have to as I had a building work going on and council was already aware and all he had to do was to provide a cert to me. First one said fine, second...

I don't know if you are a sparky or not ? However if you are, and you went to install the above, would you refuse to install or would you be happy to install provided the units and the CU fitted with no issues?

It is a TT system, so theoretically the fact that says according to him the installation is not safe and a fire hazard due to using a 6mm cable and not 10mm is total rubbish? As for the tails, I just get the feeling he didn't want to do the job, charged me £100 for doiing not much and buggered...

The advise from here, and mainly yourself, was to get an electrician to do the work and don't attempt it myself. The whole point of getting a few people to provide quotes is to find the cheapest person to do the work. Cheap doesn't mean necessarily bad, as competition brings prices down...

According to him, it is a fire risk should a fault occur? As for the bonding, yes, he meant the earth cable that runs from the CU to the rod. Can someone confirm if it definitely a no no to put someone else's MCBs into another make's CU? The CU I have is a MK unit which I bought as a bare...

Having had to get an electrician involved to replace my CU, as per advise from here and everyone jumping on my back, here is my experience with the so called electrician that came around: Arranged for my CU to be replaced at the cost of £250 provided I supplied the CU and breakers and ... CU is...

I have never had any problems with them either. As has been said above, make sure you cut the covers about 5mm shorter than the length of the base, then you can just clip the tops on and you can take them off later also. Make sure you are not mixing and matching different makes, which I am...

Why is there a cable? Did you just run an extension from the socket or was it chased in the wall and ... properly? In the photos, you can only see a cable and not the socket? Also, Did you know there is a limit of how many spurs ( which I assume this is what you have done) you can take from...

If the thread is knackered, you can't normally rethread it using a 3.5 tap. If the thread is gone, then you could try a new bolt, it might hold it. Otherwise the proper way of doing it is to get a new backbox. Ofcourse you can just use threadlock and other things to budge it, but next time you...

I am going to ignore ANYTHING you say! I think more and more people reading your **** will realise that and eventually you end up ....

How man y are in each pack of those backbox savers? £5 if you buy 1 pack! christ!

I think I made it very clear and if you were anyone else I would have bothered explaining it to you. But I can't be arsed, so I leave it here. Hopefully the OP knows what he needs to do now and not confused by all your crap!

If you read his question AGAIN properly, it is all there: "Can i simply connect the two L1 together with a single core cable OR will i need to require rewire the system so that the second light is fed from the first with 3 C + E?" In the first instance, the single cable that he runs is not...

Sounds like you have some proper gear in your garage. At least you use your garage the way it should be, rather than for storing bikes and washing machine and ... :D To me, it sounds like you have too many power hungry devices in the garage and are overloading the circuit.

Is this a detached garage or attached to your property? Do you not have a Garage Consumer Unit installed?

So hang on. You have a single cable that connects the 2 L1s together. So these become LIVE when lights are on. You then have a fault and the cable is broken/damaged. You touch it and then what happens? Nothing? Well I would like to be there with YOU and you can show me nothing happens to you...

Ok, so you need to think about when it started to do it and what was changed around the time? How many devices do you have plugged in your garage? What are they? What is normally on in the garage and what do you turn on. You say the cabling was done 3 yrs ago? What make MCB units do you have...