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At home, I have a 1.1Kg multipurpose dry powder fire extinguisher for classes A, B, and C fires and also electrical risks. It has a pressure gauge on it saying full but I have had it eight and a half years. However I was asked three years ago would it be ok if we had to use it in say ten years...

Sorry fopr the delay in replying, but I dont have access to a camera. As I said though, it does not look blocked so it could well be something complex with the pump. Its a shame about the machine but there again nothing lasts forever, after all newer machines often dont last anywhere near this...

Yes. Yesterday I removed the pump and looked inside the pipework area and apart from some muck inside the pipes attached to the pump there is no heavy blocking inside the pipes or the pump itself so as you say it must be a worn out pump. A friend yesterday gave us a second hand machine (newer...

My wachine machine, has in the past 22 years of its life, only ever had to have the motor brushes replaced about two or three times. However it now does not seem to be emptying properly. I have put a multimeter across the pump and it reads about 22 ohms but is there possibly a problem...

She was actually a bit doubtful on this, that is one reason why I was actually asking this question.

My father has just fitted a new toilet in to an outbuilding, including the soil pipe and water supply pipe for the toilet and washbasin. The plastic water supply pipe comes from a copper pipe on the house wall and is buried underground. A friend of his gave him this pipe about fifteen years...

The colours of the house wiring has changed from black and red to blue and brown recently, appliance flexes changed from red/black/green to brown/blue/greenyellow in the late 60s/early-mid 70s. A lot have therefore said that the cable colour changes are long overdue.

Sorry, I forgot to mention this. I cant remember off hand but I am farly sure its the NH range. Cheers.

I need a bit of help regarding wylex made RCBOs. A friend of mine has a two way wylex consumer unit supplying a lighting and socket outlet circuit in a remote part of his house. He wants to add RCD protection to the socket circuit and I suggested the easiest way round this would be to replace...

Actually, my Uncle heard that what fattony says is true, and I heard it somewhere else as well.[/b]

Could the 2 spotlights (the only mains powered lamps) be run off a 3A fused FCU and wired in two core flex which I already have at hand since it has a double insulated symbol on them. If so will one final circuit in the caravan be OK? I am suggesting an FCU since there will be more cable run...

Thanks a lot for everybodys help and advice. Would t&e be vulnerable to damage though if enclosed in trunking and/or clipped provided it is not placed anywhere subject to damage? As regards to load I feel it would be easier to just use the 16A inlet connector as apart from the small heater...

I have finally been given the caravan. It has a caravan connector near the front of it with some black lead of the kind shown earlier on. However the mains installation has, looking at it, obviously been added to the caravan after it was made. The black lead goes underneath a seat and...

Last week, I went tomy local B&Q store and found a leaflet how to select the correct consumer unit next to the shelves with MCBs and Consumer Units etc. I looked at one of the leaflets and it does not explain everything properly, no mention of RCBOs and when it comes to trying to identify...

There is now only seven days (24th) left of using the old colour cable - and guess what,? four days ago I went to a little village hardware shop to look around and the cable drums there had different size cables on, the 1.0mm and 6.0mm sizes still in the old colours!

Sorry, talking about the PME and makeshift extension lead, I am referring to the current place it is at.

I dont actually know if the caravan has a consumer unit in it but the woman who is giving me it said if I remember rightly that there might be a connector and extension lead with it. I will just wait until I get the caravan. If I decide to fit an outside socket like the one shown, rated at...

Once I have the caravan I am not going to use it for travelling around in, I am just going to use it to sleep in as it will be quiter than in the house (I often have to get up early). It is already wired with the fridge and a few lights in and it will be placed at the side of the...

Very soon I am going to have a small caravan (roughly about 6 by 3 metres) given to me. It has a fridge in it and some lights. However I will probably have an electric heater in it,a TV and a radio. I am not going to travel around in it anywhere so I would like to know if an extension lead...

I have just purchased a wall mounted bathroom fan heater. Firstly I am aware that this is notifiable work regarding Part P. I have decided on the location of the heater which is nowhere near the shower or bath and I have checked that the heater cannot be reached by anybody using any of these...