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The whole idea of someone making a video with blatant errors in judgement is a problem. If on this forum, I try and explain how lights don't give out light, but suck in the dark, pointing out to support this that tungsten light bulbs go black at the base when full, and they have sucked in as...

I would hope the electrician would refuse. This has been the problem, until we went over the RCBO's it was easy for a borrowed neutral fault to go undetected for years, one good reason to use neon screwdrivers, although clamp on ammeter is better. My old clamp on only showed increments of 10 mA...

My thoughts as well, power showers and instant showers look very similar, but drawing 30+ amps or 3 amps is very different.

I don't know about Hive, I just looked at my Wiser app, and it took me a long time to find where the battery condition is shown Seems I need to change a pair, thanks, do you get same with Hive?

You are brave, and well done, I will only alter central heating in the summer in case a mistake is made. Now you need to look at the TRV heads. I started with Energenie, then eQ-3, then Kasa, and finally Wiser. Only Wiser connects to the boiler through the hub. As to if it needs to, is open...

AC does not have a polarity as such, so as long as the power supply and the contacts are not connected it would work either way around.

The line and neutral seem the wrong way around, need to check which is why just red rings, the other two easy enough, not sure with Hive, this means earth not required, but normally have a terminal to park the earth wire into.

Yes, that would need to change. And there are questions as to where the CT coil will go, whole house or garage supply, also if being charged inside the garage, then no need for loss of PEN as being charged within the equipotential zone. But my next door neighbour tests and reviews cars, he...

A complex question, to charge an EV is not a problem, to charge an EV within the time one can get off-peak supply is something else. Much is down to why you want to charge, next door to me, it is down to being handy to charge at home rather than take it to a charging station. My son however is...

The normal is the landing light. Marked borrowed wire, what happens instead of using three wires between the switches, only two are used, and the line is borrowed from an adjacent switch. As long as the adjacent switch is supplied from the same overcurrent device, the only problem is it can stop...

Oh dear, think he needs to return to school.

This is from the appendix, not the main body of the regulations, and it is all about the problem taking a heavy load near the origin. If a heavy load is taken from the centre of a ring final the load will go down both legs reasonably equal. But 2.5 mm² cable use with a ring final needs to be...

I remember using the C crimp so the earth cable was not cut, but only with flameproof installations. The point is Octopus is doing the installation in such a way as they don't disturb the original installation. What is the point of doing that, if they want to lay down rules on how the original...

Until I enlarged it is hard to see the brown to the light. The 4 gang switch plate is the master for the two-way lighting with two wires in both L1 and L2, the back box is being used as a junction box, so brown blue to light, and brown black grey to the intermediate.

Clearly lost permeant line, I have found where the wire was not in a terminal, but just resting there, I would in the ceiling roses, just give the line wire a little tug, to make sure actually in the terminals of the ceiling rose.

Correct, I have marked SL for switched line and PL for permanent line. Since grey and black go to the intermediate then brown in com should go to a block connector in the intermediate switch, and the com on the three gang switch. Brown in L1 to light, and brown in L2 is clearly linked to the...

The Ceiling rose is similar, Earths have been left out for clarity.

You have a permeant line, switched line, neutral and earth labelled here. So neutral to permeant line should be around 230 volts all the time, but neutral to switched line only 230 volts when switched on.

More interested line to neutral reading, clearly 142 volts line to earth is wrong, but often old installations lack an earth. There may be an earth wire, but often not connected. The fluorescent lamp may be end of life, you can get LED replacement tubes. With tungsten lamps a poor connection...

The problem is we have multi parties deciding what it required. So a conservative government can have a labour sub government ruling what happens in Wales. Add to that Ulster and Scotland and you have a system where there is a free for all, with even one law Part P having multiple requirements...