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okay... thanks for the replies...... bit confused!!! could you confirm the following water/gas pipes entering the house need to be bonded from the CU with 10mm^2 within 600mm of the stop cock each pipe in the bathroom needs bonding to a circuit bonding at the boiler not required thanks

hello and thanks to all that answer, Could somebody please talk me through bonding requirements for a bathroom. At the moment all the copper pipes are bonded from the earth point at the CU with 4mm cable at the combi boiler ,situated across the...

the sockets upstairs were wired into the same strange radial curcuit, so i've now removed the old circuit to install a ring main, but this leaves the downstairs sockets as spurs! chasing for new cables is the best solution. p.s can i chase a coaxial tv cable and a phone extension in the same...

i'm new to the 'forum thing' and clicked stop watching this topic before i read your reply. wasted loads of time on ms paint drawing that!!! thanks for your reply. think that chasing new cables is the way to go. thanks again.

hello and thanks to all that answer, please see the image attached, can i spur the downstars sockets? i know its not ideal but the original wiring was all spurred from j/boxes and i dont want to remove the plaster downstairs there are only 4...

Hello and thanks to all that reply, I'm rewiring the ring main of an old house. I've rewired the kitchen on a seperate ring. As there are only 10 other sockets in the house I'm going to create one ring for the bedrooms and living room. firstly is...

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just browsing through the forum, whats cpc? cheers

hello and thanks to all who reply, i have been doing a lot of my own wiring for a while now and am confident with my work (if i'm not sure i will always find out, no risks!) whats the deal with certificates, the house i'm currently modernising is...

hello and thanks to all that answer, i'm rewiring my kitchen ring main and using this circuit to supply an fcu for an extractor fan. is it okay to wire the fcu as a socket on the ring and not as a spur from a socket.its seems logical to me but...

thanks, that link helped. The boiler is going to be fitted upstairs and the chimney flue is straight so as long as i can secure the flue, is there any reason why i can't use the chimney flue with the boilers flue inserted? thanks.

is that no to using the chimney as a flue full stop? is this because it uses a balanced flue? if i can insert the 100mm flue pipe in the breast is it possible then?

hello and thanks to all who reply, I have a vaillant combi boiler which is currently fitted with a 100mm flue. i'm hoping to move the boiler into a fire place which i have exposed. Assuming the chimney is inspected is it possible to run the flue...

the top of the rose where the flex normally comes out.

hello and thanks to all that reply, I'm currently rewiring the lighting circuit of my new house. The wiring was a complete mess so i've ripped it out to start again. I would like to replace the circuit with loop in roses, however all the new light fittings don't fit over them with the caps...