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Thanks for your replies. Strictly speaking should all the downstairs sockets be singles then? i.e. is having a double socket on a spur the same as having a spur off a spur? There is one double socket at the moment which I was going to take a spur from for a FCU for a feed to a gas fire...

Hi, my son has just bought a house and although I haven't yet checked each and every socket, all the upstairs ones I've checked have 3 x cables and all downstairs ones I've checked have 1 x cable. This suggests to me that the downstairs sockets are spurred from an upstairs ring main! The...

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My sparky has made no reference to building Regs applying. He was originally doing the whole job (as a favour as he has a lot of committments at the moment). I wnt to do the summerhouse end of the job and then ring him to check, connect, check again and sign off. At the end of the day if he...

Simple advice required, that's all. Isn't that what forums are all about? Should it be 4mm straight through to the 5A fused spur or not? Thank you

I take you point. The sparky recommended 4mm so I was not restricted to what I could use in the summerhouse (e.g. small electric heater). Having routed the 4mm cable (some 30 metres) I want to run an outside socket and double socket and two LED lights inside. How do I do this when you say that...

I am in the process of installing myself (to keep the cost down). My sparky has agreed to check before connecting. Just wanted your opinion on the trunking. Like the look of the wood effect! What is the significance of where I live?

It's 4mm radial cable (armoured) to outside single socket then inside 2.5 mm to double socket and up to fused spur (5Amp) then 1.5 mm down to switch and the 1.5 mm back up to 2 small LED lights. There is about a metre when all three cable are in the trunking together. I don't know what...

I have two 1.5mm cables and one 2.5mm cable in a surface mounted plastic conduit (the type with the self adhesive tape backing).The external width of the conduit is 25mm. The cables fit in ok and I don't want the conduit any wider than necessary (the white plastic stands out on the bare timber...

Thanks for the reply. Do you have an example that would be suitable for my scenario? There seem to be many different ones on the market

Hi, I have this exact requirement. I notice the posts here are a few years old. Do the same answers still apply or have the regs changed since? I want to move the socket down and keep in line vertically with the old one and I cannot access from above due to a very tidy laminate floor job on the...

Hi just bought a softwood log cabin style summer house (28mm walls). Any advice on the type of wood treatment would be best? Mrs wants a colour as opposed to clear. Help appreciated :)

Hi, how do I switch the hot water off to allow me to replace a HW pipe in the bathroom. The pipe from the top of the HW cylinder disappears behind the cylinder and under the floor. I do not want to empty the tank or the cylinder if I can help it to avoid any air lock problems! I'd really...

Next time I want my post hijacking I'll ask!

The question I rwas really asking was are push fit fittings reliable regardless of the material? They just sound too good to be true!

Hi what do you guys/gals think of the following I saw in Homebase at the weekend?: 1. A length of flexible copper pipe (about 12" that could connect to either solder or compression joints at either end) 2. Push fit copper connectors (straights, elbows, tees, etc) I can see hwe benefit...

Cheers for the advise! It's 15mm pipe. By thye way, what do you make of the push fit copper connections (not seen them before until I bought the pipe at the weekend)

Hi I have a leak on the copper hot water pipe that runs inside the soil stack from the bathroom to the kitchen. I want to replace the pipe with a single run of copper pipe (no joints in the stack that could leak in the future) joining one end under the bathroom floorboards and the other end...

Hi I want to buy the above for my elderly parents. I want a unit that plugs into the mains thereby removing the need to remember to replace the batteries. Can anyone recommend a particular unit or supplier? :?