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Replace the detector for a dual tech.

Notching joists IS allowed. The iet even recommends reusing notches where they are already present. Wrong again winny boy :roll:

You don't half spout some shi t on here winston. Every electrician I know wires tvs and I've never heard if one not working or a customer complaining. It's not rocket science. :roll:

Plus RCD protection for all circuits supplying a room containing a bath or shower.

Yeah just get 100m of 1mil and 2.5. Should be funny when they can only wire 2 thirds of the house :lol: Alternatively you could employ a proper electrician and leave it up to them to do the entire job for you.

What size is the cable and how long is the run from the mains to the garage?

Do you know if your bell box is also made by Texecom?

That's a high frequency ballast which will have failed.

I doubt it. Ban actually knows what he's talking about.

Why are you bothering asking? You clearly know much more than anyone here and will do a much better job.

So one socket is fitted in every single home, office and factory in the country, and the other is found in theatres and a few homes for the connection of a specific type of equipment, but the BS1362 socket isn't the standard outlet in the uk? Try asking for a plugtop at the wholesalers and...

No those sockets are designed for plugging lights into only. If you replace them with standard sockets there is nothing to prevent someone plugging in a load to heavy for a lighting circuit.

It usually means they'll fail after two weeks and you'd be better off fitting a decent lamp or better still an led lamp.

But it's not wrong is it?

Can you post a copy of the test results you were given when the new consumer unit was installed?

So the board was fully compliant when installed. I won't hold my breath waiting for BAS apologising and admitting he was wrong to spout his mouth off like that. :roll:

No RCD was perfectly fine under the 16th edition. Wind your neck in.

Which Crabtree range do you have? Post a picture.

Or they alert you or your neighbours to the fact there's someone about and allow your CCTV to clearly record who's about...

Ali tube, MICC, SWA, steel conduit etc