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Dear all, I wish to replace my old re-wireable fuse consumer unit. I have arranged for the electricity co. to come out and fit an isolator in a couple of weeks time. I don't think the existing arrangement is 16th edition compliant. The company fuse and meter are in an outside cabinet...

Hi, I've installed a fcu (with 3 amp fuse) as part of the ring main. I intend to use this to power two circuits. A straight connection from the load terminals of the fcu to a shaver socket in the bathroom (1mm T&E) and the second to power an outside halogen lamp(500w). The lamp is wired with...

Hi again, I'd been doing some work on the ring main and before I reconnected the socket I'd been working on I thought I'd check the continuity between L&L and N&N wires to check there wasn't a break anywhere else in the system. This was fine. However I also checked the resistance between the...

Hi, Hope you don't mind me pesting you lot again. Although my house is fairly small it has been wired with only one ring main which runs front to back under the middle of the upstairs floor branching off as required (if you see what I mean). Currently the ring is off a 30A rewirable fuse...

Hi, I understand that its not allowed to extend a ring main with junction boxes. Is this because the wires are more likely to be pulled out of a junction box than a socket. I ask because where a socket has been added to my ring main the ring main was cut completely (i.e. not just the earth...

Are then any rules about how to do this (I don't have a problem getting it to work). Do I have to use the method given on this site or can I take wires from each switch+rose to a junction box (ie cut 2+e between rose and switch and 3+e from new switch). Conduit is too small to take a 2+e&3+e. If...