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If you have a split load CU do you have seperate meter tails entering the CU and going to the main isolating switch and seperate meter tails entering the CU and going to the RCD switch. or is there one pair of tails going to the main switch and internal bridging tails going from main switch to...

getting single phase / PME supply rerouted underground to surface box - 100A isolator - cable run into house - service connector - splitting meter tails - 2 CU's. Any reason not to get standard insulated CU ?

What is typically used as a non flammable backing board on which to mount a CU ?

Hi Can you help me get my head round this to decide if it is worth doing it and what exactly to ask for in my quote? Had the man from the REC here because we have a 2 phase supply coming in loft to CU and storage heater set up in upper hall. This supply cable is bound in gaffa tape and he...

we took out a small wooden window to restore - simple open outward like a cupboard type. we want to fit it back in now. Am I right to say that we bed the frame onto lime mortar and then use burnt sand mastic to seal around the window top and sides. Do you have suggestions for making the...

We have a small wooden window - very simple that opens outwards like a reverse cupboard sort of thing. There is no weather protection around the window all around where it closes into the frame. What suggestions do you have for this. There is not enough opening space on the hinge side to put...

Please can some one tell me what the standard procedure / order is with getting a second consumer unit fitted in an extension - so I don't end up getting the elec out twice or more? Thanks

We would like to install a wood burner with boiler that will provide hot water to a thermal store preferably by gravity and have enough heat output for the room it is located in. We would also like to connect into the thermal store an oil boiler for times when we don't have the burner running...

Another question if I am not asking too many. We have an Incoming mains (PME system), which splits to 1.storage heater system with meter and CU. 2.The other part of the split goes to normal meter connected to CU in main part of house then from a 30A rewireable fuse in this CU runs a cable...

Hi I have 2 questions 1.I would like to remove from our new house a couple of Dimplex panel heaters 1250W which are wired into one of the CUs of the storage heater system (main incoming cable divides and goes to 2 meters 1 for normal elec and CU and 1 to storage heater / immersion / panel...

Previous owners unwired extraction fan in bathroom at the fan. have checked where this comes from and it is looped into bathroom light. The cable that goes from light to fan meets fan with red - live term, black to neutral terminal, there is a blank/empty switched live terminal,the earth wire...

I presume the cable length calcs for lighting = all cable from CU to last JB INCLUDING light cable lengths and switch cable lengths coming off JBs - ??

Am planning wiring an extra light into a circuit served by one big JB containing a strip of connectors which all lights and switches come from. There are 5 lights on the circuit and I am planning connecting in a 6 th : total 600W. Problem is I cannot get another earth wire into the connector...

i have a 3 gang switch. 1st gang is 1 way 2nd gang is 2 way 3rd gang is 1 way When I opened it up I expected to find 1 of 3 core switch cable and 2 of 2 core switch cable each gang has 4 terminals two labelled 1 and two labelled 2 However what i found is 1 of 2 core cable and 1 of...

If I have 2 lights operating from 1 x 1 gang switch on a junction box system - I can have JB with 2 core switch cable and light cable coming off and then I string a cable from first light to second light .If I want a 2 way switch and I run 3 core 2 way from 1st 1 gang switch to second 1 gang...

For anyone who has read "2 red cores in a light fuseholder" and could be bothered to map the enclosed out as I can't do a diagram! i would be grateful if you could let me know if there is odd stuff going on here. As some of the red cores going into the light fuseholders seem to have the other...

If I have a multi terminal box with 2 core light cable and 3 core switch cable coming out canput a 3 core strapping cable from the existing switch to a new switch for 2 way use or do I need to feed the new switch from the terminal box also?

I have a 4 terminal junction box in old house. into this JB comes a 1. lighting cable (2core+earth) that goes to a strip light. 2. 3 core and earth cable going to multi term box (I think) 3. a 2 core and earth cable that seem to go to something that looks like and old bakelite connector...

Have been mapping out the lighting circuit from a consumer unit in extension part of house. (the old part of house has lights going off 3 seperate multi terminal boxes) Extension part of house has different consumer unit and 2 lighting fuse holders. Lighting fuse holder A which seems to...

I notice in the 'How to' section there is a reference to loosefill cork garnule insulation - does anyone know where to get this or product names, etc. thanks