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Hi moggy ..... Just click the `WIKI` tab at the top of this page and then click`ELECTRICS UK` Under that click `LIGHTING` and check out the diagrams and see if that helps first.

Thanks ever so much davy...youve been a very big help !!

Top dollar replies lads !!! Its not a job im doing but just reading about it and couldnt find regs on it having to be earthed so was just wondering. Thanks very much.

Hi davy ... Any special type of crimp to be used? Can you buy crimps in amp rating do you know? Cheers for your reply mate

So if the capping was touching,say a metal backbox and a fault developed causing the capping to become live it would not be a problem? Cheers for the reply by the way

Hi guys....question..... Im having a wall in my kitchen moved in by 2 inches (it was a solid wall and is freezing cold and a company is putting up a metal frame and installing a thermal insulation under plaster boards) the cable to two of the sockets are to short and i need to extend them...

As the headline says really ....how do you earth your metal capping? Are there any special products out there to do this ?

Im using an insalltest ....seems easy enough(forme)

Wow yeah....i can remember when i was training and my tutor screamed not to ever twist wires together .....mind you he even blew his top when he found a wire stripper in my tool bag. He would only ever let us strip wire with the tips of our wire cutters. In the real world like RF says...

Oh yes....an absolute fortune...prob could have been a millionaire by now if id registered earlier. Think ill hit the NIC website and follow up on them pretty soon as ive got a `possible` new C.U as a job,so im hoping that would do as a `BIG` job. The `SMALL` job....what would this entail...

Yeah check with the instructions you get with your lights but on average the clearance is around 100mm but why make it tight ? Best get your plasterer to lower around 150mm , i lowered mine by 175mm to bring my ceilings down to the 8ft mark.

Hey guys and gals... Just got back from a call where someones lights were playing up and when tracing the cable (in th`attic) from light to light i found someone (obviously the client denied about doing any DIY), had started from the C.U then wired rose to rose and at the last rose had gone...

Ooops sorry ECA :oops: Didnt forget you ....honest :twisted: Yes i have my 2381 and 2391 as well so think im just being a tight wad trying to hold onto my registration money for a lil while longer. I also have my C&G 2377 but now i wonder just exactly why i bothered taking it :cry: Are...

Hi guys and gals :P The time is nearly there for me to register with one of the competent schemes....But which one is best? 1.BSI STANDARDS 2.ELECSA LTD 3.NAPIT or 4.NICEIC Oh and a quick one .... I have my EAL Domestic installers intermediate certificates... Do these...

In that case my money is on either a faulty JB under a floor board or poor insulation in which case that super duper `megger` is gonna flash a bad result at you :cry:

Hmmmm unless ive missed it ...... Did you try a new socket faceplate just to discount the fact the old plate is buggered?

I had a callout the other day where a customer had drilled a hole for some shelves and his ring main tripped. When i got there i noticed no socket in line up or down the wall but on further investigation i found it was indeed the cable linking the downstairs sockets to the upstairs .....and...

Securespark....Are wylex based in or around Manchester?, as that seems a local number (for me anyway) :o

Yes spark you can still get it ..... I got a friend one from a place called Technique Training Try www.techniquetraining.co.uk :P Just looked and they still do it £17.00 + p&p

Quick question for Crafty.... Do the showers HAVE to be protected by an RCD I always thought that according to BS7671 electric showers dont have to have protection from an RCD and that it is only shower manufacturers that recommend RCD protection to cover their backsides.