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    earth question?? am i safe?

    yup thats the one. my main source of earth (providing the water board havent put plastic pipes in, and they have had the streets up in recent years due to burst pipes) think i might have to try and get pull some slack and fully clamp it myself (just looked a little closer and this is the...
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    earth question?? am i safe?

    that goes to the CU (i assume) it goes into the gap between the cellar celing and the kitchen floor and i can only assume it follows to the CU
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    earth question?? am i safe?

    ok so here's the update: sparky came today and i told him bout the earth, he was unsure why they disconnected it from the water main but he said he would reconnect (which he almost forget untill i mentioned it as i was showing him the door) he's done all the sup bonding on the pips for the...
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    CU change

    Replacing the Consumer Unit is notifiable to your local building control department under Part "P" of the Building Regulations in England & Wales
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    new shaver / light socket

    the lighting is on 5a mcb with 2 radial circuits on each
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    earth question?? am i safe?

    how often is a PIR required?
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    New mixer shower tapped from bath pipes

    thanks, will let you all know how it goes
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    earth question?? am i safe?

    unfortunately cause its a rented property we have no say in what we get, but we are due for a CU upgrade with a split load on with. i will ask the sparky about the earth while he's here
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    earth question?? am i safe?

    yeah they are !hopefully!
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    earth question?? am i safe?

    we're they ever earthed is the question, look at this pic: http://www.arcintl.force9.co.uk/elec/40.jpg before it was just those two braided cables going to next door via a fuse in my house and now they have changed it (see http://www.arcintl.force9.co.uk/elec/7.jpg )
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    new shaver / light socket

    will i have to use 2.5 t&e or will 1.5 be ok?
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    New mixer shower tapped from bath pipes

    yes it was a cylinder in the top bedroom above the bathroom i am going to put up a fake wall and tile over it so none of the pipes will be seen :) opt out for a thermostatic shower? i was thinking of getting a thermostatic mixer? is this not suitable?
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    New mixer shower tapped from bath pipes

    what would i achive from coming down from the cieling? wouldnt i have to come across then down that way? rather than coming straight across? (the boiler is 2 floors down if that helps so its not a case of gravity is it?)
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    New mixer shower tapped from bath pipes

    just put a pic up of the bathroom where id like to put the shower (needs decorating obviously) http://www.arcintl.force9.co.uk/bath/1.jpg as you can see in the pic there is the white boxing in the corner where the water piped ran down from the airing cupboard. now that the boiler is in...
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    new shaver / light socket

    i would of liked to take the feed from the cieling rose in the bathroom but i know our joist run the wrong way so i cudnt of fed the wire to the wall without having to hack into the cieling after every joist. i will check and see if the extrator has a permanent supply (it should because my...
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    new shaver / light socket

    there is no shaver socket in the backroom and only a pull light cord switch outside, there is a extractor fan inside the bathroom above the sink. can i spur from the extractor fan and run a fused spur to a new shaver / light socket?
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    New mixer shower tapped from bath pipes

    we have just got a new isar HE24 combi boiler fitted and i would like to put in a mixer shower as we have no shower and now we have a combi it takes twice as long to run a bath and dont even need to put any cold in it, so obviously shower may help. can i tap off the water pipes in the...
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    house alarm

    is there any lights on the control panel on/flashing?
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    Extractor Fan Control

    not sure whether this helps or not, but my extractor fan in my bathroom (no windows either) comes on automatically with the light and it has a switch on the fan so you can set how long it stays on after the light has been switched off. when this was installed by a sparky, they set it so that...
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    Maybe of interest to competent DIYers...

    please post for all to see how this came about. would be a very interesting topic
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