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The Mrs informed me last week that after about 15 minutes of ironing the RCD kept tripping. Was only happening when using the iron. She assumed it was just the iron as it was ancient & went & bought a new one. Same problem still exists with new iron!! Pretty strange as no matter what you use on...

Someone I know has asked me to fit a light on top of their roof & to fix it on toa pole that has his & his two neighbours TV aerials on it. I'm not to keen on the idea, is there any reason why this shouldn't be fitted on this pole, regulations wise?

I understand you're not meant to run fire cabes that are used in a 24v system along with 240v cables. The route I'm taking with the fire alarm cable has to go through an old block wall, there are twin & earths running through this entry, is there anyway I could still run it through this entry or...

My gran just got a gas fire installed, the plumber clipped the pipe round the bottom of the house from gas canister in back garden to fire. The metalwork ain't earthed. What's the easiest option to earth it as I assume it needs it, small earth rod & link onto pipework? Is this satisfactory?

Any help will be much appreciated. Water heater was heating the wter absolutely boiling so I replaced both rod stats. Now the top stat (the boost) is working fine, when power goes to it it starts heating up, making a noise similar to a kettle boiling but not as loud but when the off peak comes...

My hot water is heaated by an immersion heater. The water is very very hot all the time. I looked at the stats on the immersion they were both at 55, is this the reason why or could it be something else?

I used to have a electric cooker and hob in my kitchen. I've now replaced the cooker and it's only a single oven instead leaving the old hob still in. The hob is plugged into the same 13A socket it's always been plugged in to, with is spurred from switched spur. Now I have an empty cooker...