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Hi I am replacing old plastic plug and light sockets with chrome ones. The instructions for the chrome ones say they must be earthed, obviously as they are metal. I don't fully understand this though. In all of the wiring there are three wires, live, neutral and earth which I wire...

Hi I've been changing some old white sockets for chrome ones. All have been fine - just straightforward swapping over. But I'm having difficulty with one which is a fused/switched socket. It is above worksurface and it operates the oven, extractor and hob ignition. (So there are three...

Hi, I am trying to put up a light fitting. In the ceiling at the moment is an ordinary plastic ceiling rose with the three blocks of terminals. My problem is the light fitting I have has only a small "cup" on the end which will not fit over the existing ceiling rose to hide it. I've...

Hello Hope someone can help - I'm at my wits end and beginning to hate my neighbours (though I know it's not their fault). I'm in a Victorian terraced house. The breakfast room on ground floor adjoins my neighbours breakfast room. There are wooden floorboards which for some reason...