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I politely request that you desist from being a total tool for once. Give yourself a day off. I note your post count. >35K posts!! Are you housebound? Do you have a job? Or is this your job? Trying to prove to the world that you are the planet's cleverest person? You are a bore. A dullard...

The Govt are currently reviewing Part P apparently, as they want to know if it has been successful. Considering it hasn't been publicised, is seen as a money making scheme, and drives people into the arms of Vaslav and his chums, maybe we are better off without it? Why should we have to...

One of those cables is the switch line, and the 'neutral' as you describe it is actually the 'switched live' - hence the bang when you turn it on. You need a continuity tester to find out which it is. If you have one, with the power off just touch the red and black or each cable with the...

Just a thought, but how long are these extension leads? I'm just wondering if you are getting massive volt drop causing a malfunction if there is nothing wrong with the internal wiring. By the way, if it's a sealed plug you can cut it off and replace it with one you can get into in case of...

I take it that your cooker switch also has a 3-pin plug on it too? If so, then a 3amp fuse in a plug with flex up to your extractor won't be a problem won't be a problem.

Watts = Volts x Amps. 230V x 65A = 14,950W Most houses are about 240v anyway, and your fuse will blow a bit over 65 Amps - not a smidge just over it - which gives you quite a few more Watts to play with.

There's a thing called an Oozi box that's in the current copy of Professional Electrician (free at most wholesalers), but it's a load of expensive old bollix. I just dig out the plaster with an old chisel - voila!, good as new :) Mind you, I have also had a cantankerous old git (since...

I sincerely hope that you haven't got lights wired in a ring. Very bad form. Are your lights 50W each? Could you reduce the wattage by replacing for lower wattage or LEDs if the wiring is inaccessible? Better still, if you can follow the twin & earth to each light, wire in a 60VA...

How many lights does this switch work when functioning correctly?

I have and it does. Thanks for everyones' input but I have sussed it out. In drawing out the layout when the int switch is in a certain position it causes a permanent feed to the end of line switch :o Will have a jig about at the int switch, and if I still can't rectify it, I'll move feed...

Common in the top, one strapper in L1 on its own, the other strapper in L2 along with the live to the lights. I should also mention that the end terminal is a 2 gang, fed on the non-2way side that does the bathroom lights, shaver light, and the 3C to the fan isolator, but I am 100% convinced...

That was my initial reaction as it was wired by my junior, but not so. 2 x 3c&e, both commons in a block, both greys in L1, both browns in L2 and definitely one cable top, and one in the bottom. :(

Sorry - forgot to say that my next port of call will be two swap the switch outside the bathroom in case that is the culprit.

Hi Completely rewiring a big old manor house at the moment, and this has me puzzled. I have a corridor with a bathroom halfway down it, and a bedroom at the end of it. At the top of the corridor I have a 2 way switch, into an intermediate switch outside the bedroom, then ending with a 2...

Unless I just went completely mad and all that I learned was wrong, at least one of the switches either end should be a simple on off switch, shouldn't it?

Bought the house nearly 18 months ago. One of the previous owners was a plumber I know. The two tanks in loft are black plastic (not metal), and neatly lagged. Don't know how old cylinder is, but boiler is a Potterton NetaHeat. One rad in bottom centre is a git to heat up, you've got that one...

Sorry, I'm sure it has been dripping when off too. Does this make a difference to the diagnosis?

P.S. Can't draw!! And if I could wouldn't have a clue how to put picture up on here!!!

OK. It's definitely NOT from the overflow. It's a 22mm pipe that comes up from the airing cupboard. Two other pipes join into it. One comes straight up from the boiler in the garage, the other one has the valves and the pumps on it. As another poser, the water coming into header tank (why...