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As far as I understand, using old colours would have to be listed as a departure on the EIC. You can make a departure with a justifiable reason. Using old colours because the rest of the existing installation is in old colours, and therefore using old colours would reduce confusion and hence...

Ooh and 42" ceiling fan light fittings for bedrooms and the lounge. Best thing ever. Thankyou Asia.

Nah - enough people will do it anyway that I'm sure their order books are full for years :)

Or a decent extractor fan. I fitted a heated mirror during my renovation as I also thought it would be a godsend after a lifetime of shaving at my parents on a mirror more like a water feature. Also fitted a decent bathroom extractor fan during the renovation. Never needed to use the heated...

You're bathroom is less than twice the size of mine and I have 5x50W lights in it (lamps now replaced by excellent 4W 120 degree beam LED lamps) which is more than enough. You will need nowhere near 15 in your room. Technically the only person's opinion you really need to worry about is your...

My god I hope you don't have a family and that it's only your own life you're risking with your criminally stupid attitude :shock: . Basically, the reality is this: At any point in the future your metal light fittings or switches could become live and kill whomever next touches them. You will...

Went for Hager on my rewire. I'm really nitpicking here, but what I didn't really like was the circuit numbering being moulded into the top wall rather than there just being a flat area to attach labels to. That meant when I reconfigured the board to give unprotected ways for RCBOs and had to...

Wow - must have been a pretty heavy night on the town last night to still be spewing unintelligable nonsense by 2:42pm the next day. Hope you had a good time. :) :)

But as in other situations, you are not required to idiot-proof against future stupidity. If somebody covers up a nice inspection hatch with laminate flooring/built in furniture, it's their own stupid fault. Come inspection time, it wont exactly take Sherlock Holmes to locate the external meter...

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight :shock:

You need a short piece of neutral bar and another neutral fly lead, then shuffle things around to fit it. This was available as a seperate kit for my hager CU for a few quid - I'd expect similar to be available for wylex.

Not sure what that would tell us we don't know already. Essentially the same as him reconnecting his existing fittings which we know work fine?

BC wouldnt make any electrical inspections if they were being notified via a competent persons scheme, eg niceic, napit, etc.

The completion cert should cover everything - everything they were notified of, that is. A full extension will pretty much always involve electrical work, so I would expect BC to be asking questions already if they have been notified of an extension being carried out and have no notification of...

Hmmm, normally I'd have expected an experienced pro to have come along by now with a blindingly obvious and simple explanation that I've missed. No luck so far though, so I'll keep trying. You're sure these earth wires are earth wires? Rather sounds like it but worth being sure. Have you...

Rewire will be cheapest and quickest if the house is empty and if the sparks dont have to clean up and provide a temporary supply for you every day. Therefore, keep furniture in storage, hire a caravan to live in the garden/live at mum's/rent/go on holiday for a week. Then move into freshly...

As unlikely as it seems, everything is pointing to two faulty light fittings! Perhaps they came from a faulty batch? I'd try returning them and see if replacements work. It's easy enough for a multimeter to fail to see an insulation resistance problem as on its ohms setting it only challenges...

Hi again, In case you didn't catch my edit above, and didn't fully understand electronicsuk's point - it wasn't just general 'work safe' advice. From the info you've now given in answer to my questions, you could have a live to earth fault in the new metal light fitting. If you do not...

Hmmm sounds like an MCB tripping. My worry was that you could have a live-earth fault somewhere on that circuit which had been 'fixed' by breaking the earth at the ceiling rose in question, and that by connecting them back together in the new light fitting, the fault is showing itself. If you...

First things first - what tripped? RCD (will have a test button, will usually be two modules wide and there will usually be only one or two of them in the consumer unit) or MCB (individual switches one module wide, one for each circuit, no test button)? For completeness you could also have all...