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Sparky's been over and is happy with chasing, cable routes etc and sorted all the rest, Ive but to day been on with the lights. All the switches are in slim (18mm??) back boxes, these are bolted and clamped to metal conduit running to the ceilings. Its all earthed via the back box but no...

thanks All Sparky's been over and is happy with chasing, cable routes etc and sorted all the rest, but to day been on with the lights. All the switches are in slim (18mm??) back boxes, these are bolted and clamped to metal conduit running to the ceilings. Its all earthed via the back box...

Thanks Guys, we (thats the royal "we") have reached a compromise of 4 pairs of lights, given its two rows of 4 that still leave plenty of options for wiring!

thanks Guys - and a bank holiday weekend coming up too - OH joy!

thanks for the info guys, never been a fan of chipboard, so if I go for 18mm ply is it just going to be 8'x4' sheets butted together or is it available in, say, 4x2 like chip and T&G or is it out with the router?

Hi Ive got a 1960 house with two bedrooms with builtin wardrobes with are in fact back to back alcoves in the partition wall. about 12' long. The wall is concrete block (what my dad would call breeze block -denser than thermalite but not modern engineering grade I'd guess) the wall spans the...

Hi All, having had several heating systems\rewires etc a lot of the existing timber boards are basically wrecked, I was planning on robbing the boards out of the living room to replace the others around the house and then doing the whole living room in chipboard T&G. Its a 1960 house and its...

i've got a long narrow living room with 8 downlights in (two rows of 4) on one two gang dimmer switch so the dining area can be lit and the tv area in darkness or vice versa. After her indoors has re-arranged the furniture it needs to be a bit for "flexible" I was looking at and 8 way grid...

i'd guess its either one of two things bad NTE 5 socket or bad overhead incomming bt line, I'd head over to adsl nation -just goggle it and buy the best filter\NTE replacement they have on offer\you can afford. If thats not the cure I'd check any overhead cable (if you have one) and trim any...

thanks -if i wire it outside the CU (the ones i was looking at were DIN or wall mount) does it have to be fed via a fused spur or can I just run T&E outside the CU as I would have done if it was all in the CU -we're talking all of 6" here?

Point taken, I've got the floors etc up for the plumbing and adding insulation replacing the broken boards from the original heating system etc, and wanted to get ahead of the game and not have to get the whole lot back up again. and for my own interst really!

Hi All I want to tidy up the garage wiring and add a few more bits, Im thinking that a second CU would be the easiest with separate sockets\isolators for individual equipment (compressor, pillar drill, lathe etc) Im looking at 16a radial for the compressor (3hp motor) with 16a 230v Blue...

given spare space in a CU a DIN rail mounted transformer makes a neater job I can sleeve the "bell" wire to bring its insulation up to spec but does it have to have its own MCB (6amp MCB seems a bit over the top!)or can short tails be joined to another MCB -ring main (as it is in essence just a...

thanks to one and all, it seems there's more than one way to skin this particular cat! But just to add the the plan having taken the ceiling rose downstairs off there is a bit of choc-block wedged in the back linking in the outside porch light which is switched from a separate single gang...

thanks click, does it not matter that the hall switch (two gang one for the landing upstairs, one for the hall downstairs) will always be live unless both curcuits are isolated - or am I making a mountain out of a mole hill?

This may be a stupid question but should the landing light, two way switched from the hall downstairs be fed from the downstairs lighting curcuit or the upstairs. i'd have thougth it should come from downstairs so the two gang switch for hall and landing is isolated from one breaker in the CU...