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You also shouldnt be messing with kitchen or bathroom lights without understanding what you are doing due to part P (aswell as common sense). You might have left exposed cable ends, and this is extremely dangerous.

lol get an electrician in to pole the cables and find out what goes where. Sounds like you might have some of it wired ins eries, hence the dimming lights.

Depending on the lights, the ceiling roses are what the pendants have from. Newer, and fancy lights dont often have them, just choc blocks fitted inside.

You need to sleeve the earths. You shouldnt have bare copper. This is probably the same at all your sockets, switches, and ceiling roses.

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But its only a 60Amp Consumer unit. There for if you only have one ring final, you cant physically use Current to reach the 60Amps that the Consumer unit can take. Using 2 ring finals, means that you could. Thats all i was saying. Wasnt looking to de-rail the thread.

Overloading one 32Amp circuit as opposed to overloading two 32Amp circuits. 60Amp main fuse. Ok so in reality the main fuse can take a huge whack more, but with two ring finals at max capacity you will be over the limit.

Kitchens, bathrooms, gardens etc all fall under the new(ish) Part P regulation. This means that 'diyers' cant do the work themselves in these areas, without getting building control involved. To do the work yourself wouldnt be difficult at all, but complying with regualtions would be with...

Yes. Unless you get building control involved. Quite possibly yes. you would be better off using full size sockets, not little ones :lol:

May not be easy finding the old colours now adays (maybe off ebay). I wouldnt recommend using the old colours though. If its not broke, dont fix it i'd say. Unless you start running into problems, eg you want to run a few electric heaters, a toaster and a kettle at the same time and it keeps...

Sure, for 50 quid ill give you the info. Afterall, Electricians get paid, so with an attitude like that then our knowledge is worth money. I do 3 sudoku's every day, but i dont know the first thing about fixing cars.

Those can hold 30kg, bringing your weight up to 50kg. Not sure what plasterboard walls can support, but it doesnt sound good to me. Whats behind the plasterboard, or is it a partition wall?

Cover over the roof with taurpaline for the time being, and get more quotes. If everyone comes back at 2800 then thats the going rate. (Just make sure it isnt the same guy quoting each time pretending to be from different companies! lol) I find dressing as an old man works well to get a...

In parallel the current splits, not the voltage. (voltage splits in series, eg xmas tree lights) If you are going to run a cable from the ceiling rose anyway, just run a twin and earth. Connect it into the live and neutral terminal of the existing light, and it will come on at the same time...

Took a while, but i edited yours to show how it would be done Thats with one switch per light. If you want one switch to operate both lights, then put the switch in before the split.

Thats parallel

The 2nd drawing, it wouldnt light up because the power would take the easiest route. parallel: L---(sw)--------------- | | Light 1 light 2 | | N----------------------- ok so the drawing didnt work.. lol...

Shouldnt you be using meter tails rather than armoured cable? Or is there a big risk of mechanical damage, hence the armoured?

Get a sparky in

Could be an echo? Or just try replacing the switch, it could be old and not working properly