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Maria sounds like a nightmare!!! Firstly i assume your extension is a kitchen which would fall under the special location bracket. As there has been no new circuit installe the certificate required would be a minor works. The minor works has to be carried out by the person installing the...

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john sorry didnt see it lol No prisoners if your slightly off the ball on here is there!!

John D, Whats the problem with that post, hadnt been mentioned??????? charming

Another option would be to take the ring for the kitchen through a 2 pole rcd inside its own enclosure adjacent to the cu. Done this for showers on old wylex. quite effective and saves changing the cu

Bas, thats a great link for the outhouse but one question, If i understand it the author advocates taking a supply to the garage but no earth if you have installed a TT. No two earthing ststems simultaneously accessible. Surely the only problem with this is due to the size of the cable...

I understand where your coming from pompey, what i am trying to point out is because its not standard doesnt make it wrong. In most houses there are lovely plastered walls which is a massive headache and upheaval to start running extra feeds back to boards or sockets. He is looking at a...

Ok guys see your point, but your threads are based on human error or tampering. I am speaking from an operational point of view. I wouldnt say it contravenes 314-01-01 either as it would be labelled at the cu. Some houses have wall lights in alcoves fed from the lighting circuit. Others are...

Qedelec, I think we try to legislate too much for people, if you plug a heater into the socket the 5 amp fuse would blow. If they change the fuse when it is labelled tv and dvd socket to a higher one they are morons, but it would mean the fuse in the cu would go first. There is no risk to the...

As the guys said it is bad practice but I think it can be done with the following precautions: Tong the shower on load and find its max current. Check the cable and breaker size. If for example a 10mm cable is present and your shower pulls 30 amp, (dont know your rating)install a 5 amp...

69er, I would carry out a continuity check between the stack and the incoming connected oil service. Perfectly ok to use interconnected metalwork as an earth path provided it is continuous and of sufficienly low resistance. The pipe i assume is bonded as a MBC. Not really dealt with this...

69er, dont mean to be funny but interested in the post and wondered what you did an ir test on?

Has he installed and energized your new ring circuit? Firstly, if the main earth is inadequate he should not have energized a new circuit without satisfying earthing and bonding requirements. If im reading it right that is.

Not read up too much on the ins and outs of different generator sizes, but in the static generators we use for an alternative source we operate the following. Two mccbs merlin gerin or the like are both mechanically and electrically interlocked. When the switch is down for the mains side a...

Lectrician, Thanks for the reply, fixed the screw and still had the problem which you wrote. Obviously the two neutrals split read 230 on a martindale because in effect you are becoming a cable joint. This is the whole reason i called it a borrowed neutral. I know its off the same circuit...

Why not run a 6mm radial circuit to cover it. Not a good idea to tap into ring but cant see technically why not. just a thought

they had not taken a neutral to the landing light so they ran a single core down the wall at the top of the stairs at the side of the landing window under the floorboards to the kitchen light. Tie back hooks had penetrated this and a twin and earth adjacent to it causing a leakage down the...

Guys, Found a strange one today wondered if anyone else had ever experienced iy. Changed a consumer unit uder a stair cupboard which had been virtually kicked off the wall. Typical 3 bed semi house. During dead testing R!+R2 of downstairs lighting i found something which shows the...