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The outer coating and the steel wire armor had been mangled enough to expose some small gauge wires individually insulated. Far too small to carry any significant current. There would also be no good reason for power cables to be routed that way. Adding everything up it seemed probable it was...

I occasionally had a problem like this. It would only happen when the hot tap in the kitchen was switched off quickly. I figured that the problem was (in layman terms) the water bouncing or sloshing back the other way in the pipe (same as it bounces side to side in your coffee cup) to the hot...

Hi, Yesterday I started replacing my existing garden fence and whilst boring the holes for the posts I hit what appears to be an armoured telecoms cable. How deep should this have been buried, and do building regulations state how far from the boundary line of a property this should be...

Indeed I am a man :) The wife always moans about the fan being too noisy and insists that it mustn't be linked to the light switch. I'll put in a new switch in the airing cupboard next to the isolation switch. Less convenient in my opinion but what the wife wants the wife gets.

Thanks for the advice. When the time comes I'll replace it with in an inline fan in the loft.

Near enough 2.4m. Its about 2.37m high. The decorative plastic cover of the fan protrudes about 10-15mm. The existing fan is mains voltage.

I'm in the process of planning a re-wire of my house (going down the notification route and doing it myself). I'd like to get some clarification on what zone my bathroom fan is actually in at present. Only considering the bath it would be in zone 2. However there is a shower in the bath...

Yellow dots - spot lights 230v 50w - zone >=3<br>Green square - proposed IPx4 rated ceiling fan<br>Blue dot - shower outlet<br>Red shading area inside shower bath out to 1.2m from shower position.