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Here`s one for you if you......... If you just connected the CPC from the twin and earth straight to the back of the metal face plate.....would you really think you would need to attach a flying CPC from the faceplate to a metal backbox? :?:

Your `estate agent` recommended a change of consumer unit? Sounds strange ....but even more strange that you then get a leaflet through the door advertising electrical work.... hmmmm. Anyway.... does the leaflet say the electrician was registered with any body? I.E NICEIC etc.... does it...

Wow ..... A prime example as to why buyers packs should be brought in and a full electrics inspection and test compulsory at the sale of every dwelling. :roll: .

Like plug says speak to your plasterer but there is no reason why he/she cant make the wall depth suit the backbox. One thing to keep in mind is as you run your cables up or down to the any backboxes,remember to cable clip them to the wall as slightly loose cables can move out of the safe zones.

If your ever caught short without your `BIG BROWN BIBLE BS7671`and need to know a Z`s figure use this simple formula..... For a type B MCB.... 1.Multiply the nominal setting of MCB by 5 Then using Ohms law... 2.Divide 240 (volts) by the sum you got in the above calculation. I.E for a 25...

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Id rcd it BEFORE it left the house. :wink:

Once when i chipped off some plaster a found a load of writing on the brick wall behind.... It read...... `MANCHESTER CITY WILL WIN THE PREMIERSHIP IN 2009` :roll: :lol: Wahooo .....wembley here i come!!!!!!!! Oh ....where abouts in manchester you from steve?

Does your cooker not come with a flex and a plug attached to it? Oh ....just switch ya caps lock off as well matey :lol:

Well, (as ricicle states), dont use that light at all . Your council man/woman should NOT have passed this as a safe piece of equipment and pass it in line with document part P ,as it has no earth and it is not either ... 1.Plastic or 2.Double insulated (as secure stated). Phone them up...

Yep it should state in the instructions but if its the first time you have used it and its brand new.....try 0000 That`s 4x zero . OOPS ...just noticed its second hand....try letting the headset battery run down so the unit dies.....passcode may reset itself :roll:

Oh eh that method wasn't mentioned.....nice one RF :D

Is the switch you want to change part of a two way switch ?

Hi peeps.....today i heard a couple of arguments about the best way to locate a break in a ring final cpc....Which do you favour? Ill set the scene..... Your carrying out a continuity test on a ring final circuit,you have measured the end to end resistances of both the phase and neutral...

A well set up shower circuit, (or any circuit in fact) is a safe one as long as you follow the correct design features and practice a safe working method. As said above, if the correct size cable is chosen and a protective device to suit that cable is employed then any thermal heating in that...

Ah yes ....the good old switch feed :o One top way to save cable lengths (and money)!. Nice one bernard :lol: . If the neutrals are looped around at the ceiling rose and the lives at the switches does that mean the wiring in this installation will have no sheath for protection and only rely...

Hi peeps.... Just been reading about these tests and was wondering..... When measuring Ze we would carry this test out with the earth conductor temporarily disconnected from the MET, which will also count out any parallel earth paths and a false Ze reading. Add the Ze to our R1+R2`s of each...

As from BS7671 2008...... IEE are also lowering their 200ohm max to the 100ohm mark I know it doesnt make any difference as to what your doing now but just thought id tell ya. :lol:

Hmmmm... Can someone clear up why the original poster has two lives to common,a live to L2 and a neutral in a connector block,when its a one way lightswitch?. Think i may have missed something here :oops:

I can remember a time when i had a united utilities guy out to reconnect the mains after i had replaced a consumer unit and when i was showing him my test results he laughed and asked why i called all the cooker circuit a `final` circuit..... He said ` only ring circuits are final...