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Good discussion, but back to the OP, if you were to kit out a garage right now, from scratch, what would you go with? 1: Fluorescent High Frequency with High Output tubes T5 @ TLC 5ft 58w Twin HF Fluorescent Fitting - Less Tubes = £25.26 ea. x 4 = £101.04 5ft 54w Cool White Deluxe Triphosphur...

If you were to install lights for an average sized (home) garage today in the UK, would you consider LEDs yet? I mention the UK because a lot of thoughts on this subject or online forum posts/videos are based in the US where LED lighting may be cheaper and more widely available. I also find that...

I have a SGS43E08GB/45 Bosch Exxcel Dishwasher type S9G1B. The other day my other half said it went bang. A medium sized bang like a hand clap. This was during a cycle sometime. Now when we turn it on, the LCD still gets power and functions but when we select a program it only runs the drain...

[/url] SWA is in ground so with 4core 2.5mm squared that chart shows 24A capacity. The T&E is "in a wall" for barely a few inches (the thickness of a wall) then is in free air, then back through a wall and then clipped in trunking along a wall (not in it). So god knows what that would...

What max ampage can the SWA cable I have take? (Details of the cable mentioned in first post). I'm assuming it would be quite high. If the above is not a limitation, then the next limitation becomes the cabling used that spurs from the lounge through the conservatory and then feeds the SWA...

2 x Dual tube lights totalling approx 160watts. Then there will be occasional use of high draw power tools like say a 1500 watt SDS drill, 1000watt Mitre Saw, 1KW pressure washer etc. Worst case scenario would be that I was working in the garage with both lights on, plus a bench light...

It goes out the lounge wall (from the back of a lounge double socket), under decking, back into the conservatory through it's wall, then is in trunking along the wall just under the window sill which goes onto feed 5 x double sockets around the perimeter. After the final of 5 double sockets, it...

Sorry my mistake. Yes both switches have visible fuses in the front. I flipped them out and checked and they are both 13A fuses. So the one in the conservatory before the SWA cable to the garage is 13A, and the one that is switched to the tube light is 13A as well. I basically want to avoid...

Oh right. Ok guys... I think I am with you. I will check if the switch in the garage and conservatory have a fuse in them. I can't tell without taking it apart. Don't worry, I will isolate the supply. Also, I'm not sure I understand what a radial circuit and ring main actually are. I told you...

Hi guys. I've some questions about how my house is wired. Built mid 80s. Terraced on an estate. I just want to be sure it's safe. My terminology is probably poor and I don't know what all the acronyms mean always. But I will do my best to describe. Most houses I have come across have the...

Yeah. Thing is I cannot make it do it on demand and I would have to keep doing that all the time as sometimes it does it only once every week or so. I wonder if there is a way I can try to replicate the issue.

Hi there, We have a NEFF built in oven (not sure how old as we rent). It had the element replaced maybe a year or two ago just for info as it was not heating up to temperature. Anyway now, the problem is that intermittently, perhaps once a week, it will trip the RCD when we turn it OFF. Yes...

Thanks. The GU10 LED bulbs you linked to are also £8 each. I have read of people on here using GU10 LED Bulbs off ebay with no issues. I'm talking bulbs like THESE @ about £2.50 each...

Hi all, In my downstairs ALL the lights are SES R50 40w Reflector spot incandescent bulbs. So in the lounge there are 2 x Ceiling fitments with 3 spots/holders in each. The Hall has a similar thing on a rail with 4, and the Kitchen has another with 3. That's a total of 13 of these bulbs =...

What is a PEB and what actually is the MET? I mean, physically what is a MET? Main Earth Terminal yeah I get that, but what is this to look at? In my outcupboard it just has the earth from the stop cock and the earth from the fusebox attached to what appear to be the back of the main gas pipe...

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What is bonding? EDIT: I mean as opposed to what I am describing as above with the earth cable already installed? The property already has what I believe to be "bonding" if this is simply things being earthed. The bathroom stuff is earthed down to the fusebox via trunking using yellow and...

Is it possible other houses use black wires to not look so obvious? Does it legally have to be a) yellow and green, b) a certain thickness? Currently this cable is 6mm total thickness. thanks for your swift replies. :)

It already is a very thick yellow and green wire. :) I just want it moved but can't think of any easy way other than along internal walls and over the front door inside trunking then into the "in"cupboard and then out into the outcupboard. Argh. long. I just wonder how other houses have had...

Thanks. I live in an eastate where the houses are all similar terraced/block houses, and I have never in my life seen one with a great big chunky earth cable running along an outside wall, let alone the main front outside wall. Is this because none of them are earthed properly? Unlikely surely...