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My current project this week is to replace the current 27 year old shed, with a new bigger block built workshop. The old shed Outside old shed by mdbalson posted 8 Aug 2017 at 10:04 PM Old shed by mdbalson posted 8 Aug 2017 at 10:02 PM Inside shed Inside of old shed by mdbalson posted 8 Aug...

Finally got around to fitting the A/C in the summer house. (I have had the unit sitting around for around 5 years to fit, since I removed it from a site as it was undersized for the site and they were going to bin it. It all works OK and was only a couple of years old at the time.) Unit is a...

rewired hall lights as part of redoing the shower room, due to hall lights being fed from shower room lights. Also due to both hall lights only being on 1 way switching. Wiring New Switch by front door New Wiring to 2nd switch New...

Have just started to redo the shower room, here are some pictures (Forgot to take a before pic, but will look and see if i have one from when we moved in, saved somewhere) Old Shower Room New lighting & power cables Wiring Shower Room Isolators...

Here are some pictures of the old peak CU & of the new peak CU I replaced it with. The Old peak CU was a 4 way metalclad MEM Memera with rewirable fuses, the circuits on the old cu were: Cooker & DSO by cooker 30A Sockets (Ring) 30A Lights & Meter-cupboard Light 5A Bathroom...

Here are some Pictures of the Summerhouse: Starting to lay the base: The finished base (Side view): The finished base (Front view): The Parts of the Summerhouse: Side view of the Summerhouse: Front view of the Summerhouse: Lagging & Plaster-boarding...

Here are some pictures of the new lights and switching in my room New cables pulled in to new lights positions: Cables at 1st new light: Cables at 2nd new light: Bases of new lights fitted: Wiring at 1st new light: Wiring at 2nd new light...

I was working on a building site on friday, which was using 240v to power all the site instead of 110v. The festoon lights on the site were all homemade with orange or yellow 1.5mm flex, with connector blocks and a bit of cable to a bulb holder. The supply to the site was from a 16A ceeform...

The Main DB for the house, which is in the kitchen, I have now gotten around to replacing. The meter was moved by the DNO, and all the new DBs have been all been tested and signed off. Here are some pictures of the old burnt line tail which went from the service head to the meter (It was...

I have a 2D maintained EM light in my room which is not working in normal operation, but is still working in EM operation. Could it be the lamp or the control gear which needs replacing. Thanks

Here some pictures of the 3 phase supply in an estate agents in Ashford, where we were fitting a new submain to fed a new DB for the 3 new wall mount split A/C units which our firm fitted: The incoming 3 phase supply, meter, DBs & switch fuses in the cellar: The red phase was...

has any one else noticed how rubbish Wylex cus are becoming latley. As i bought a 8 way insulated RCD cu the other day, but when i opened it to check it, i found that with the breakers to be able to put the cover on you have have the breaker up higher to have it level with the rcd, but in doing...

Here are some pictures of this years outside christmas lights The outside christmas lights (The front outside socket is a single MK waterproof socket with a cable gland fitted to it, wired to a length of blue 2.5mm Artic flex which has a plug fitted to the other end, which plugs...

Now who can guess what these three 3 phase control panels are for :?: They are at a site, which I was working at this week, & last week. There are six control panels on this site This is the inside of the control panel in the 2nd picture, which controls 2 things:(The 2 swFCUs...

Now this is one thick earth bonding cable :shock: This is the earth bonding cable to the gas pipe at a Coldstorage warehouse in Paddock Wood, which I noticed as I was working there this week.

Here are some pictures of the loft lights which were already installed, in the flat which my Nan & Grandad have just moved into. The 1st Light The adaptor in the 1st light, which supplys the 2nd light The 2nd Light Close up of the 2nd Light The 1st light is a...

I am going to run power to the summerhouse which I have had put up at the top of the garden. The length of the SWA which would run to the summerhouse from the shed, will be appox. 40m in length. The summerhouse would be fed from the non RCD side of the shed CU, by SWA to a RCD CU in the...

posted a little late now, but here are some pictures of my outside xmas lights. Outside xmas lights Outside xmas tree Outside xmas lights power box Inside the outside xmas lights power box The supply to the outside xmas lights up in the loft The supply...

I need to move the electric setup, onto a new piece of wood (Like RF Does on his jobs), as the render on the wall where the meter cupboard is, is crumbling off, so the pieces of wood with the Meter & the Service Head on, are starting to come loose (As you can see in the picture below) (There...

I going to be putting a double RCD waterproof socket, outside at the front of the house (For plugging the hover in, to hover the car, & for the xmas lights at xmas), & just wanted to check what type of cable to use. I thinking of using 2.5mm blue artic cable, as the cable will be clipped to...