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janainslie - if your location is true and you are in Edinburgh - Part P does not apply in Scotland so best to contact an electrical company registered with SELECT or NICEIC.

Me thinks this is Sparky2005UK from the Screwfix forum, who is in fact opening up an online wholesalers do i get a gold star :wink: good luck anyway mate

You can if you know what your doing if not get a Spark in, wire and install a switch fused conenction unit into the socket circuit and wire the lights to the load side of this, with a 3 amp fuse in the FCU. Effectively creating a swicth for the lights, but fused down and on the socket circuit.

The main bonding needs to be 10mm to gas and water which you say it is, so that is correct. the cross bonding which you also say is 10mm is oversized actually, they do not need to be bigger than 4mm nowadays, and perhaps not even needed at all. Cross bonding as per 16th editionis not needed...

Kai, im sure he talking about the earth cable and not the live conductors. The earth cable from the supply point to the consumer unit should be 16mm. The 10mm green and yellow cable(s) taken from the MET which is normally within the consumer unit should go to main incoming gas and water...

As BAS says, Scotland works to BS7671 just like the rest of the UK, but our building regulations are different, and this is why Part P(which is a building regulation) has caused so much confusion up here, because some media publications and manufacturers looking for business make out that Part...

The "earth leakage test" is a test done with the power switched onto the appliance and a figure about 3.5milliamps leaking to earth indiactes a fail with most Pat Testers. Most heavy current Class 1 appliances especially washing machines will give some leakage to earth usually under 1...

www.sbsa.gov.uk/new/index.htm is the new scottish scheme info. Part P has got heehaw to do with Scotland, the probem is manufacturers and even the government, tell you its to do with the new building regulations but fail to properly put the correct tittle of England and Wales before the...

theres a big possibility the thermal cut out has gone, caused by overheating within the inner casing, either by someone covering the vents or the thermostat terminal ( not the wiring terminals) but the bimetal terminals have pitted together and the heater has overheated and tripped the thermal...

if its outside the bathroom in the hallway it is totally seperate from the bathroom - so no special regulations apply. The only recommendation is that if this new socket is likely to or can easily supply power to equipment used outside the equipotential zone - eg outside the house, then the...

a company in our area was doing a lot of council work - eg kitchen refurbs. The council is NICEIC registered but this sub-contract company wasnt. This company though then started to use the NICEIC logos in all thier advertising, which was duly reported by other companies and they are no longer...

is this a split load board - by the sound of it, it is and from what i gather you are swapping the red core of the cable between an mcb on the rcd protected and the non-rcd side to test it, if so then the problem lies with the neutral core from the shower cable terminated into the wrong neutral...

also here http://www.theelectricalshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=256

1 to 2 gang, 2 to 3 gang and 2 to 4 gang converta sockets all available on www.theelectricalshop.com

yip not electronic, but toroidal type. 1 input and four outputs individually fused, you can get this type as individually fused or one main output. they were very common in the early days of halogen lights, although you can still get this type usually in metal shoebox cases, smaller electronic...

i just picked up a 50 amp crabtree pullswitch for a job im doing, as the customer in his wisdom went for one of these 10.8kw showers as well - really why do people get so excited about that extra couple of kw or so. keep showers about 9-9.5 kw and we will all get along fine - but...

now that is funny you should ask. I have had an email back today from the Scottish Executive - Building control department. Scotland Building regs are due for a change as from May 2005. It is proposed that Part N of the Scottish Building regs which already state that competant persons...

yes early to mid 90's served a four year modern electrical apprenticeship in Scotland.

or a four year apprenticeship - Onsite and at college it includes all these C+G courses plus much more. the above obviously is if you are employed with a company if not then its the City and Guilds route