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Oversleeving the Green/Yellow of flex to use as live was technically allowed at one time, but was always considered rough as, plus there was still a requirement to have a CPC provided at the equipment even if it didn't need one. Its now changed and the prohibition on doing so now extended to all...

Is that what happens when you ask for bulbs for them instead of lamps? :unsure: :LOL:

I swear he is obsessed with kitchen appliances :LOL:

@Harry Bloomfield I think hes worried about the damage the fire has caused to the countertop and the kitchen units that he would have to replace, rather than the tennant's own toaster I'm not sure you'd have to go that far, just put a reasonable argument across to the Deposit protection scheme...

Quite likely, connect it all as it was before and see if it still comes on

All resistive electric heating is 100% effcient

If the issue is that the timer is not timing out, then you could just remove the conductor thats in L and make safe in a connector block, and fit a link to L from LT, so that both the supply to the unit and the trigger for the timer are made live from the switchwire. However, as you appear to...

Do you mean you have the neutral of the load in Normally open, and the line of the load in common? with no other connections to those terminals? Thats not how it works, its just a dry switch contact, you need to confirm the contact is suitable for 240v and the load of the pump, then link common...

There is no limit per see as how far you can run tails. What there is, is a requirement that for any part of your installation that relies on the supplier's equipemnt to provide protection. i.e. teh tails up to whatever your first piece of switchgear is. They must grant you permission to do so...

I've got a picture somewhere of disabled grab rails in a toilet being bonded to the supplimentary bonding for the room (the best thing was, there wasn't even a bath or shower in there, it was just lavatory and wash ahnd basin) And a vertical cat ladder in a fire station plant room to access the...

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Just to add emphasis to what @Why Not Indeed has said, you don't actually need or even want a router there, you'll have a router in the house already to connect you to your ISP, thats the only actual router you want (Router routes data packets from your home network, onto your ISPs one, in...

Thats one thing that is slightly annoying about Hager, they never made a 40A in the other range either, I think the excuse was something about issues with power disapation in that small a case - but other manufacturers manage it. I know its not ideal, but a design load of 32A on a 32A device is...

Things are getting a bit better in that regard I find, A lot of the more common brands are responsing to the demand. Wylex and Fusebox *miniture* RCBOs have always switched the neutrals. Hagers original ADA3xxG series did not, but the newer ADC9xxR ones do. (You have to be caerful to make sure...

I had a similar E-mail, but it arrived the next morning (Saturday). I'd had smart meters installed on the friday afternoon, chap finsihed about 5pm, I clicked to change over to agile straight away, expecting to have to ring them to follow it up on the Monday morning, but I got a email next...

Not really in terms of loading, generally the load is going to be low in that situation, you do have to watch that you have sockets spaced sensibly around the room, so if you have a dado drop in the corner and then dado trunking around two walls, you don't go through all the sockets with one leg...

Did you change over to Agile in the end? I've just got my car plugged in to be charged overnight at negative prices, and I've got a load of washing to go on overnight as well Forecasts suggest that in the small hours tonight wind generation is going to come quite close to predicted demand...

Building on what ELFI said and hopefully not repeating him too much.... Yes, a ring final is a special case, if you have a look at 433.1.204, you'll see that a ring is (subject to following the normal rules for a ring) is deemed to meet the requirements od 433.1.1 provided its on a 32A and the...

I'm reminded of this: (Note: contains swearing)

While, as you say that value is not low enough to cause a leakage that would trip an RCD, 300k / 0.3meg is more than low enough to indicate that things are not as they should be, and if that value were measured on the circuit initially, we'd be wanting to break it down and locate where it ws...