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I've just spent the last hour or so watching all his videos. Top stuff!

It's a combi - some do need a 16A supply (mine is rated at 3580W)

How often do you move your TV and HiFi around ;)

They are completely incompatible. You can't plug either plug into either socket - so they do fulfil your requirement for preventing the unwanted loads being connected to your inverter sockets.

MK do one with a T-shaped earth pin. Go onto their website and type 'Non Standard' into the search box and you can see the full range.

Hi How about a 2 gang MK Grid Switch with a switch on one side and a dimmer module on the other? Steve

I wasn't commenting on the suitability of the original posters consumer unit - I was questioning the assertion that the circuit needed to be RCD protected.

But surely just about every air conditioning unit in any country where it may ever rain is at risk of being exposed to water? And I bet less than a fraction of a fraction of them are on RCD protected supplies because they don't need to be. What is the risk that you perceive?

Why would a permanently fixed air conditioning unit fed by SWA cable need an RCD? The fact that it is outside is irrelevant?

Hi I'm running a line of railway sleepers around the edge of my patio. They will be sitting directly on an old brick wall which I have taken down to ground level. I'm thinking a bed of mortar of some description will be the best thing? Any advice on how to mix and apply? Thanks!

Can you really not fit a ceiling one? It could be installed adjacent to the light fitting.

Lots to choose from here. None in chrome though... but if you mount it in the ceiling, I doubt that will matter!

The issue is as much to do with the transformer in the fitting as it is the dimmer. You can't go far wrong if you use the Varilight dimmers and Varilight transformers (disconnecting whatever transformer was supplied with the fitting). Obviously, there is a risk of voiding the warranty here..

RCD's don't trip on overcurrent. Your protective device is the switchfuse at the house end, and the MCBs or RCBO's in the shed. Your solution still leaves you in a situation where an RCD trip will take out your lights. In my opinion, in the shed consumer unit you should just have a...

That's not a 'downlighter' issue as such, more a 'crap downlighter' issue. I completed my kitchen three and a half years ago and have yet to replace a single lamp.

It's OK for us all not to be the same you know! The kitchen is the hub of my house - it's the primary communal area. Your list is almost the opposite to mine :) It's not somewhere to sit and read. We do It's not somewhere to sit and use a laptop. We do It's not somewhere to...

Only if you don't clean up after yourself!

Setting everything else aside for a minute, are you sure the existing cable is 10mm - how are you measuring it?

The capping doesn't really count for anything and that installation is now only just marginally better than it was before. It seems to be a bizarre and pointless remedy.

You may have answered your own question there...