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That is disgusting and not acceptable. The Housing Act 1985 (& later regs) requires hot water, heating and safe services. Try again and, if no joy, go straight to your MP. Motto of EHOs is "Friend of the Human Race" -- chase them.

Andy is right; best approach is to use the light fittings as the starting point. Check continuity with all power off (i.e. which wire is which using multimeter and fastening each pair of wires in turn until you have a new diagram. A bit slow but will work; little one will enjoy adventure of...

Local authority Environmental Health Officer is the person to see.

Sorry, misread; thought the whole unit had been changed.

I have a number of 8W ceramic LED lamps = GLS fittings (bayonet and es). They are good and do spread the light as shown by...

I think the OP means that moving the starter makes it work. As two known to be good starters give same effect maybe the connections inside the lamp are loose or the starter holder is badly made. Does the starter wiggle in its socket? You could either take the lamp back (best) or use the starter...

Sounds fine, but may be easier ways. From your description you have some sort of translucent platform suspended under the ceiling on/into which the lights are fitted? Is this correct? Would the driver lie on the platform? Can the ceiling be seen directly (a no) or will all be hidden from the...

Can you cut and cap the water pipes outside the chimney breast and put the cable through the now empty section?

DamianNewrick - Hopefully the roadworks detour is now behind you and you've a clear run to your cabin. Enjoy the freedom.

What exactly is wrong? If you compare the portable generator to a mains supply from a power station to an imaginary single transformer providing SP to a house then, if the transformer was not earthed there would be no point in earthing the house and, as ricicle says, the rcd would need a...

You shouldn't put (another) earth from a portable generator to the ground. You don't need to modify anything. It's designed to do exactly what you want. The principle behind earthing is to give a way for a large current to flow from a fault and thus trip the supply (blow a fuse). The supply from...

This has come up before, and, to reiterate very quickly; actual fatalities might be misleading. I isolated the wrong circuit, put hands in washing machine, got jolt and RCD tripped. Colleague did same without RCD needed a year of skin grafts. Like many interventions in safety there is no real...

Yes, apologies for poor use of the English language. We agree on what is required.

ALL Power off. Join Live and Neutral wires which went to the unused 15 (16?) A MCB and check for continuity with multimeter at IH end.

Does the kitchen have an outside wall?

Just to clarify; I'm talking about joining the internal earth cable (i.e. the one joined to the earth terminal in the garage CU) to the container end of the steel protection. The garage end of the steel protection is also joined to earth (probably directly to the garage MET). The earth wire from...

Probably the best idea is to take to the meeting a workable system and then let the group modify. A suggestion would be SWA from garages to container under the protector. The steel protective being connected to earth in the garages and the internal earth wire being connected to this at the...

Missing fuse carrier?

You're basically right about the container wiring - although much depends on distances, etc. For the stand-alone post I'd suggest that it wouldn't help because, come the first wet day, somebody will fit an extension lead and work inside the container. If this is a university club then there is...

Conny, don't encourage the amoeba. Others look at this http://www.worksafebc.com/publications/health_and_safety/by_topic/assets/pdf/bk101_chap1hazard_recognition.pdf