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sorry forgot to mentioned that the floor will be tiled, another 20mm (tiles and adhesive) will be added. therefore, the skirting board will be above the the tiles and the cable will be below the lowest point of the skiting board by at least 10mm. Hence, even if someone drill onto the lowest...

can you please explain more on how to do that.

this is what I have done? see pic below. the cable (represented by red line) comes down from the socket on the left to ground level just above the floor, separated from the floor by 10mm insulation, then pushed behind the plasterboard and will be covered by skirting board. I know it is not ideal...

no I could not retrieve the failed section, it is a small cable runs between 2 close sockets and buried under the insulation then the screed. I run the new one along the wall behind the plaster board and will be covered by the skirting board.

many thanks to whoever contributed to this thread. I have found 3 cables faulty, the last leg and 2 in the middle. all have short circuit L to E. replaced all and everything is working as it should. but I am still puzzled as how they got damaged. could be the patch of wire i used is bad...

none of the wires are connected to the cu now I have them all out to inspect them. Hence I have 6 wires L,N, and E from one cable which I call the out and another 3 wires from the second cable which I call the return. I have now connected and the power socket back again. for the out cable the...

do you mean L from one wire to N for the other wire and vise versa? and again the earth to each of them?

I did test the résistance of the 6 wires, the 2 blue and the brown and the earth of the full circuit. the the reading I got is 0.9 for L and 0.9 for N and 1.1 for earth

yes I do

thanks for the speedy reply. yes I meant RCBO. yes but i can not see where the Short Circuit is. both ends and the wire are visible to me.

I have rewired the whole of my house after new extension. And so far I managed to do the extension 2 ring power circuits, the kitchen and the main house upstairs circuit without any issues and all are working and connected to individual RCDs. however when I connected the main house power ring...

I am more confused than before now. the whole of the UF heating system was designed and sold to me by reputable suppliers. I followed their design and install it all. I am at the stage of fitting the hard wired wall thermostats and the wiring center head of installing new gas system boiler...

I bought this wiring center on line for my 8 port under floor heating system. I had hope to see a designated wiring block for the boiler, pump and the zone valve. but this one do not and i am rather confused. based on the wiring sheet that came with it, see pic can someone help please 1- where...

well spotted Danny, I was under the impression that the transformer work in the same way as the rest of the MCBs and taking live from the bosbar behind it. but it was not. it was actually taking power from the MCB next to it. the wire I took from that MCB was feeding the transformer. put it...

no I do not have auto ranging voltmeter. but I am not not getting and reading whether I put the dial on the AC or DC volt selector

our door bell stopped working and I was under the impression that there might be a wire cut somewhere after some DIY activities happened in the house. However, when I did continuity test on both wires (the wire connecting to the door bell switch out side the house and the mains that is coming...

I am trying to install under floor heating to the whole house and will take off all the radiators. can I still use the boiler (Worcester 28cdi) for DHW only without any radiators connected to it? this boiler will be replaced with new one when I complete renovating my house this autumn.

I am trying to connecting 28mm service valve to 22mm pipe. see pic, the 28mm service valve shown on the blue circle and the 22mm pipe show in the red circle. I am looking for flexi connectors that will give me 22mm compression from one end and 28 female from the other end to connect the pipe to...

John, many thanks for your help. took the carburetor apart cleaned all the Jets and the mower works better than before.