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    Outdoor Socket

    My mates just moved in to a new place and has one of these on the outside wall that the previous guy had fitted. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Masterplug-Weatherproof-Outdoor-Mains-Power-Kit-Twin-Socket-RCD-Protected-Plug-/400781158453 my questions are Are these legal to fit yourself? Don't you...
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    Help: Adding an outdoor socket to my garage

    not a spark, but why not get something like this and then drill a hole through the garage for the cable?[/url]
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    Live cable?

    to be fair to them, I know that they didnt wire that socket in, but they did add 3 additional sockets to that room and have been underneather the floor. I know for a fact that they had been round and checked every socket in the house checking the wiring in each. So I'm surprised that they...
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    Live cable?

    yeap I already have disconnected it as far as I can tell it is a ring main have traced the cable throughout and its on a 30a mcb will have to find a new spark now tho, as I don't totally trust the ones who did the work before
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    Live cable?

    Just changing some sockets as the old ones are unswitched (which I hate) and got to one that has 3 wires going into each terminal. Which I thought was strange as I couldnt work out where the spur would be running to, so I had a route around under the floor to find that the cable was about a...
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    Running a cable through a pattress

    turns out I had room in the end for a double socket, so problem solved
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    Running a cable through a pattress

    might go down the spur route then just to make it a little easier with the cable runs cheers guys
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    Running a cable through a pattress

    was going to be running a hair dryer and straighteners from these 2 sockets... no issue with either of these on a spur is there??
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    Running a cable through a pattress

    I did think about that, but I thought seeing as I was going to the effort of adding 2 sockets I might as well have them both part of the ring
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    Running a cable through a pattress

    yes this is just diagramatic, the cables will just be straight up and down
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    Running a cable through a pattress

    it won't be my problem later (hopefully) :lol:
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    Running a cable through a pattress

    I'm short on space so need to have 2 single sockets, one above the other. The cable (green line) from socket 2 at the top needs to drop straight down to get back to the ring, is it ok to run the cable through socket 1's pattress box?
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    Conduit for pond power

    not sure what the current cable is then as it connected to a standard plug, which is then plug into a RCD plug
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    Conduit for pond power

    I need 20m of cable with a maximum size of 1.5mm (as otherwise it wont fit in my pond switch box) All the armoured garden power cable that you can buy from the pond retailers costs £80-100, hence why I was looking at conduit also I'm sure I read somewhere that armoured cable cant be...
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    Conduit for pond power

    its just standard twin and earth. one end has a plug (which is fitted to a rcd plug) and the other end is fitted to a external weatherproof box (not sure what IP rating it is)
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    Conduit for pond power

    can anyone recommend some decent (but fairly inexpensive) conduit that I can use to bury my existing pond cable into the ground? The current cable is just attached to a wall, but I would like to bury it out of sight thanks
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    sand for a slabed shed base

    Can someone give me a rough idea of how much sand I would need to make a sand bed for paving slabs for a shed base I'm getting a 12 x 6 ft shed, depending on what size slabs I get (400mm or 450mm) the area covers by the slabs will be either 8m2 or 9.11m2 and I want to lay a 4cm bed of sand...
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    splitting tv aerial

    hi just want a bit of advice have a digital aerial mounted in my loft, it has 1 cable running down that is plugged into a tv with built in freeview. I'm getting a couple more tvs for round the house and want to split the aerial signal between these other tvs (1 of them has built in...
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    Adding new socket

    what about if I ran 2.5 twin and earth cable from the existing socket to this and then run to this. Then plug my 6 way into it. Or is this overkill or dangerous?? Cheers Rob
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    Adding new socket

    I didnt realise that you could spur off a spur as long as it was a fused one!
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