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You can use 6 sq mm cable all the way to the oven if you like but what size is its internal wiring? Is it good for 30 amps??? As for Supersparks' idea of using 2.5 sq mm from the junction box to an FCU, this should be OK. It happens in practice when you put a spur onto a 30 amp fused ring...

Somewhat off topic but very true. I've lost count of how many different diets there are for us to try. (I'm at least two stone over at the moment.) Whichever Grumpy Old Man said "Try the Stop Feeding Your Face You Fat Git diet" hit the nail squarely on the head. To get back onto the topic...

AdamW wrote: I suspect there's some truth in all of these. Very few women can expect to be mistaken for Cindy Crawford (I'm showing my age now) and so, thanks largely to fashion advertizing, many must feel inadequate. It is ironic therefore that the further from the ideal a woman considers...

Well there's Renoir for a start! Seriously though, I never understood the fad for women starving themselves to death because they wanted to look like Twiggy. I do remember a tale from a fashion magazine publishing house. An article in the magazine claimed that the Twiggy look was now out...

I've used many different vets over the last 30 years - though for cats, not dogs - and I can tell you that they're not all equal. There are good ones and bad ones, cheap ones and expensive ones and little correlation between quality and price. Get a second opinion.

Yes and no! Rather than 'cutting in' as you put it and using a junction box it's better in most cases to tap off an existing socket. This mustn't be a spur itself (only one cable) or have a spur on it already (three cables). Yes. You cannot have more spurs than there are sockets on the...

Your oven should really be on a 13 amp fused spur. You can feed this from that junction box with 6 sq mm cable or you can put it on your ring main.

Fair point; I left out a lot of fine detail. IF it's a radial wired entirely in 2.5 sq mm (or bigger) and IF it doesn't have any side branches - or at least none bigger than one item - then it can be continued onwards round extra sockets and back to the consumer unit to form a ring. The fuse...

I've just had a read through that news article and the last three paragraphs said rather a lot. I recall that we had problems of our own less than a century ago. It was not unusual for parents to sell their children as prostitutes just as soon as they thought they would fetch a price...

That's a very unusual way of doing things! I can see two problems: 1) You are switching the neutral wire. Now this in itself should not stop your dimmer from working - and, as you've already found out, it doesn't stop the light from going on and off - but it's not safe. The light fitting...

I wonder whether this is what he had in mind --- If that kitchen socket is a spur direct from a fuse in the consumer unit and is wired with 2.5mm cable (or bigger) you can extend it into a complete ring. You can add as many sockets as you like as long as you finish back at the fuse. The...

Were you able to move the machine before? If so then I'd say that's conclusive. The drum is full of water. There's no way out of this without access to that pipe so you'll need some help to move the thing.

Where are the fuses and what size are they? If the only fuses/breakers are the ones in the consumer unit then these dictate the size of all the cable and flex that lies downstream. If the switches have smaller fuses of their own you can use smaller flex.

Does that oil fired boiler heat water in a storage tank? If so, is there an immersion heater in the tank doing nothing? Your 1.5 sq mm wire is, as Mapj1 has pointed out, only good for about 15 amps (UK rating) - and no, you can't just fit a bigger fuse! Fifteen amps is enough for a 3kW...

No matter what your speed is you will be hit by all the rain drops in a volume or air equal to your frontal area multiplied by the distance travelled. You will also be hit by all the drops in a volume equal to your 'plan' area multiplied by the vertical speed of the rain multiplied by the time...

This might sound obvious but: The rich can live where they choose. The poor live where they can. This whole poverty business is relative anyway. A mere century ago if you were poor you were hungry. Now, here in the UK at least, the poorest people are the fattest! To be poor now means...

There is a floor area limit for a ring main. It used to be 1000 square feet but like so many other things it's gone metric. I think it's 100 square metres. That's about 8% bigger so something good came out of the EU! With only one ring it sounds like yours is either a small house or else...

It has been covered before because I can remember joining in. The problem with a changeover switch is one of control. By this I mean who gets hot water on demand and which poor mug is left in the cold without warning! The discussion last time got bogged down in attempts to describe quite...

In any circuit there are components that don't appear on the diagram. In your (hopefully hypothetical) case the important ones are capacitors. These are scattered all over the place, eg from each overhead (or underground) wire to earth and from the transformer windings to the core. If you...

Without more information it's hard to say. Did the ad also say "This device is not available in any shop." It might be just a fancy name for a cupboard! Back in the sixties I can remember adverts appearing in comics for "A device that lets you see through walls". The picture showed some...