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I see JohnW’s point but the CU is not getting updated this month and the alternative is an extension from the one existing socket which had a 30A rewirable fuse as protection and a single 2.5 able as supply.

Shouldn’t it have been specced as a hardwired connection rather than plug and socket?

The more you look…… There were three connections to the 15 A fuse. The two sockets (2.5) the garage door (1.0) and another (1.0) destination as yet unidentified - I didn’t want to start looking at 6 last night. Looks like the previous owner didn’t know about FCUs.

Ideally, but we had no control over the previous owner. We haven’t been here long.

We have a couple of portable RCDs for the risky jobs (lawn mower, power tools) but a whole house RCD has disadvantages (FiL had one) so RCDs can wait for the new CU. AIUI it isn’t mandatory but a new CU will need to comply with current regs so will have them. Previous owner was a real amateur...

Disconnected it at the CU to reroute cables and realised the answer was staring me in the face. There is a 15a fuse supplying two sockets in the garage, will connect it there. The garage demand is a chest freezer and the occasional power tool, the additional sockets in the kitchen will...

Am adding some sockets in the kitchen. There is already a single beside a redundant tv aerial point and plan is to link to this. On investigation the cable to the socket is a spur taken directly from one of the ring circuits at the CU (about 10 feet away in the garage) and wasn’t put in by the...

Check you have an adequate electric supply for the hob.

Now I know why the bidet in the en-suite that I removed (wife doesn’t like them) had its own cold supply from the (shared) header tank in the loft.

Is it running off Wi-Fi? Try interrogating the TV to see what input it is using.

You are going to be filling holes in the wall anyway so if you can lift the floorboards above replace the cables to the sockets and have the joints in the floor space above. If you ever need to get to them you just lift the floorboards again.

Long time ago worked in York Carriage Works, electrician came back from lunch and forgot the power was on and reached in to an electrical connection box with a spanner. Probably 1000V DC, he just had a nice burn on his hand from the spanner. Any guesses to the brand of the spanner?

Yes, he is hanging the toilet on the stud wall! They are fine if you are bolting them to something good and solid but you need to be certain they will stay put if a large relative/friend uses it.

Cut a piece of board with parallel long edges, one edge to sit on the window frame and the width that will match where the inside edge of the framing will be. Use this and a level/plumb line to mark the inside of the frame on the floor. Of course this assumes the window angles are right.

Jusr rewired the wiring centre in line with diagram above with adjustments due to wiring centre being in the landing cupboard and boiler, supply FCU and controller being in the utility room . All working fine, boiler fires regardless of whether heat or HW is turned on. Didn’t record what it was...

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We haven’t had one plumbed that way before and have had houses built in the 1860s, 1950s, 1970s and 2000s.

Definitely all pumped, there is a three way valve (Plumb Centre branded) so it has been replaced at some point as they weren’t called plumb centre when the house was built. We have had gravity HW in the past and they have larger bore pipe for the HW (which this doesn’t ) and there is a long...

Possibly doing what it is doing now - HW and heating generally used at the same time. Hw on only and the boiler doesn’t strike up.

It worked before we changed it …… But. …….. It was always with heating and hot water at the same time. Single channel clock so couldn’t run them at different times so it may have had the same behaviour before without us noticing as both were generally on. When heating wasn’t wanted we...