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DEFINITELY need another drink... plus the next post was about a saw to saw the swa, which I saw later! Heh, heh! Forget the bladerunner then!

Yes.. all connected via a 4-way trailing lead...AND he can plug his TV into the spare socket after midnight....! I think I need another drink.....

I'd say that was a VERY good price, though as you can see i'm based in London, thought that's not necessarily a good excuse! However, do ensure the electrician is Part 'P' qualified and a member of a domestic installer scheme as operated by the NICEIC, ECA, etc otherwise he's no better qualified...

Has anyone tried that new tool - Kewtech possibly - that scores SWA like a plumbers pipe cutter? Look like a neat idea, except I'd probably lose it and have to resort to the junior hacksaw as usual. Anyway, in answer to the original post.... why would you want to cut it? Can't your wife do it...

Thanks 'sheds'. I unreservedly apologise for my comments and prepraszam (yes I can pronounce it - I had a Polish wife and travelled extensively in Poland!) to our Polish friends and colleagues. Funny enough 'cowboys' is the same in both languages! It's just I had another of these dodgy jobs at...

No... your instructions say 30 milli-amp RCD! Get the electrician in to do it and then you can concentrate on the fish!

Ooops! Circuit

Ah! that would explain why the average Pole tries to wire a lighting cicuit like a ring!!

I hope to God you're being ironic! If not please temper your wit! There are enough idiots out there without encouraging another one to strip the insualtion off his cable using nitromors by candlelight!!

You worry me! Ok maybe 'no obligation' but we've got not earth continuity to the lighting so there goes the bonding in the bathroom... we've got a fault on the ring (DB1 sockets) so let's play russian roulette with the extension lead out to the garden... And I'm just guessing that the tails to...

It's in the building regs

In a nutshell, the 17th is looking for ALL circuits to be RCD/RCBO protected, so where, in a bathroom you may have had underfloor heating installed on a ring(RCD protected of course!!), plus lighting, and will, of course, have linked your supplementary bonding to both local circuits cpc...

Hi AFC, I am assuming the RCD is upstream of the four fuses, ie protecting the whole economy 7 installation. First off, just to explain the different functions of a fuse and RCD. A fuse (rewireable or mcb) is an overcurrent device and basically trips or blows when too much current flows for...

Thanks Taylor... I feel the same way too... and with apologies to original post (who appears to have his act together) I don't mind sharing knowledge. I see so much shoddy, incompetent and dangerous work that I don't like to add fuel to the fire. I agree that the gov has to make it's mind up...

Get this guy back! He may just save someone's life! No-one has commented on the bonding issues here either. It is written in bold type on the back of certificates that if main and supplementary bonding is missing work must cease until this is rectified! No RCD's ?? Why justify lack of compliance...

Hi, Guys, I'm not having a go here... this is one of the most straightforward question & answer postings I've seen for a while. Your man seems to know, more or less, what he's doing and you/we have given a correct solution. Given this is, according to the 'rules' a special location and ...

Did you check the fuse in the oven plug top? Also no-one has asked why you 'flicked off the MCB switch'. Do you mean the cicuit breaker in the fuse board? Why did you do this? - it is designed to provide cicuit protection, not switching, but if you have damaged this then your hob ignition...

Sorry mate, if you have to ask these questions you really shouldn't attempt it. Do yourself a favour and get a registered electrician to sort it - that way you can relax in your bath rather than worry whether you're going to 'ride the white lightning' !