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If you cut through your mower cable, you're gonna have to go in the house to get your car keys to go down the wholesalers to get some new flex - so why your walking past your CU, you can re-set your rcd !!!! Any mower (or appliance causing leakage) would be useless & dangerous til repaired, so...

I think the cable can take about 18 amps, but you will have to check. In that case a 16 amp mcb would do it, but personally I'd put it on a 10 amp as its primarily used for heavier lighting loads (or as a spur load cable). Depends what purpose you are using it for.

Either your ampifier circuitry has gone faulty, or the line input selector is switched to the wrong input , and the small sound that you hear is the signal backfeeding through a different input. Could e an internal fuse popped, or a voltage down on the psu circuitry. Do any other functions...

When I did my conservatory, I extended the ring from the back wall , as it was within the conservatory, ie the same back wall. I put had a double socket directly behind the one that was in the house, and then continued with the ring into a 5 amp fcu to feed the light. With regards to the...

IS there power to the alarm panel (and remote keypad if it has one!) , because you had a power cut , when the power came back on it may have surged the panel and taken out either the external spur fuse , or even the internal fuses on the alarm pcb, or it could have even spiked the memory on the...

I have installed some old ex-chubb panels in the past, and the majority of them use CK Securitech PCB's inside them. The procedure for the reset of the Chubb panels was to type the code in then wait for a nee-naw-nee-naw sound, then press the # key. Try that and see how you get on.

Shed or not , its still fixed wiring for external power, so no get out clause here!!

I reckon you've got an earth hidden inside the pvc cable. If somebody bothered to run a twin and earth switch wire, then you SHOULD have at least that same twin and earth switch wire connected to your light !! The fact that they never connected it to the incoming earth loop shows signs of a...

I'd say its a combination of Poor quality bulbs and excess steam from kettle/pan etc getting into the bulbs or their fittings. Try branded bulbs in your kitchen, and keep your naff ones for the other locations!! And point the bulbs away from the appliances instead of directly above them...

Thanks Adam , Just for the record. The live, switch return live and earth from the ceiling rose are fed to the first switch (Which does'nt need the neon) , The live goes into the L1, the switch return live to the L2 , then the 3 core and earth are connected like for like ie com 1st to com...

I have been asked to replace a lightswitch - and its in a non-notifiable location!!! Problem is, the new switch that is to replace the old, MUST have a neon indicator on it - or be illuminated in some way at the switch!! Here is the slight dilemma. The switch is currentlly wired as 2...

Telephone socket for your phone or computer modem (ie for faxing!) ??? Shaver socket (when your glued to the pc, and need a shave and dont wanna get off you seat!!) , A phono outlet for video signals (so you can send the video over to your tv over the other side of the room , in case you want...

You COULD Get special covers (fire resistant - although they will probably still let the light through)!! The reason the insulation has been removed is because due to the heat of the lamps (and their transformers if SELV) , it represents a fire hazard - and would you rather have 'Morning Has...

I would'nt worry about it. After all, your cat5/6 networking cables are designed in a twisted pair fashion deliberately to help keep out interference from other sources (and wires in the same cable). And as long as the audio cables you use are screened then they should be fine. If you look...

Ok, I'll go along with that. Although I would term fixed wiring as wiring that is PHYSICALLY connected to the main supply, ie at all times regardless of whether in use or not, eg a circuit. Just because conduit is used, it does not make it FIXED, I mean you could run some speaker wires down it...

Yes, crafty, were you agreeing with my quote that it should'nt need notification , or do you think it IS notifiable?

3. Work on - (a) telephone wiring or extra-low voltage wiring for the purposes of communications, information technology, signalling, control and similar purposes, where the wiring is not in a special location; Does not need notification. How can you...

Why not keep your mains appliances in your garage, eg camera monitor/vcr and camera power supplies, etc, and run 12 volt feeds from the garage out to the shed, and run the video camera signal wires back to the garage from the shed. As the 12 volt feeds are isolated, then you have no major...

Cheers Adam, That spoof iee url is just soooo clickable.

Adam, where did you find this out?? Do you have a ref or url for it ???