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My brother is in the process of renovating a house to live in. He has had most of the work completed, new electrics,pipework for central heating, plastering ,etc and his plumber has coming back next week to install a Worcester combi boiler. His plumber has told him that he must have a roomstat...

I was in a mates garage the other day and noticed his nice new hagar consumer unit.The main earth from the earth block to the C.U. was in 16mm and the M.E.B. to the gas and water was in 10mm. OK so far but here is my querie the supply earth was T.N.S. with just a few strands, at a guess no more...

At present I am working in a pub and along with other jobs I have been asked to look at saving energy on the lighting . My electrician intends to fit cfls inplace of halogen downlights and energy saving lamps to all other normally switched areas.The owner has requested that in areas not in...

I would like to take power to a garden water feature from a spur off the conservatory ring circuit which is RCD protected via a switched FCU to be installed in the conservatory, the cable run being in 2.5 SY cable to the water feature. It has been suggested that it might be better to go via an...

Hi guys hope you can help. About three and a half years ago I had a new boundary wall built partly off old concrete footings approx 20 years old and partly off new. A neighbour is now saying this section of new wall on the old footings has been moved from the position of the previous old wall...

Ive just moved into a newbuild house with canopy porch over the front door and garage. I noticed that there was some rust on the chrome bezzel of the downlights set into the plastic faced ceiling of the canopy.On starting to clean them I found they were standard 230 volt downlights and on...

Hi guys hope you can help. I have a Celtic FF boiler,central heating works fine but the hot water from taps starts to run warm approaching hot and then runs cold within about 15 seconds.Ive tried switching to hot water only on boiler but same thing happens. Boiler is about 12 years old.Any...

Could any of you qualified sparks please help? I am replacing a kitchen and my sparks says that to put a cert on his work the cooker circuit which is from a 32 amp MCB in 6 mm T&E to an isolation switch with a socket needs to be on the RCD side of the consumer unit.The oven switch and socket is...

Some advice would be very much appreciated. On hacking off water damaged plaster in a conservatory I found that the feed for 4 double sockets along the wall had been taken from a single spur in the adjoining lounge with a 13 amp FCU in between the lounge spur and the 1st conservatory socket...

Please help I have a 2 year old Gloworm Micron 60FF boiler controlled by a Lifestyle LP241 clock unit.For the last couple of days without using timer settings and just selecting hot water the boiler will only stop ,on for about 1 minute , it sometimes re lights automatically but then goes out...

Hi guys , hope you can help. A friend with a car park illuminated with a 250W sodium lamp switched by a dusk till dawn Zodion photocell has been having problems. About six months ago the lamp blew so he fitted a replcement, lamp still did not work so he replaced the photocell,like for like,it...

I want to use an electrician who has carried out work for me with no problems. This work is notifiable and he says he is NICEIC part P registered. Being cautious I have tried to varify his registration by both his name and bussiness name.says he has been registered for about 14 months. Could...

I have been told that 12volt lighting uses less electrity than mains 230volt ie 4off 50 watt 12 volt downlights would use less electricity than 2 off 100 watt 230 volt bulbs and hence be cheaper to run. I am not an electrician but as I see it they both use the same 0.2 KW/h,also a tiny bit of...