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I would like to build a raised bed in the garden, 1 side would be the house, 1 side the shared garden wall. The third side would be a curved one which I want to build. I've dug the trench for the foundation and got all the bricks. Easy bit done. The wall will be no higher than 2/3 bricks above...

Scenario : (i)spur from inside the house, straight back through the cavity to outside (ii)into outside conduit, which then carries the cable further along the wall to an outside socket So, where the cable comes out of the wall into the conduit connection fitting, there is room for the...

My electrician won't be able to come round for a couple more weeks, but all the wiring is in place for my new hob. I'm thinking of putting it in myself (I know it must be notified, but we really need to eat! and he can test and cert it when he gets back). I have two questions. Normally the hob...

New hob has arrived but doesn't have the flex for the hob to go to the switch. The electrician, when he rewired the house, left a 6mm radial (32mcb) for the arrival of the hob. This was a short while ago and he's away for the moment, but has asked me to get the flex. THe connector block under...

I've just put the wiring in for a loft. Two double sockets fed from a 13a FCU. There is now going to be a new combi boiler put up there and it needs a feed. Is there anywhere in the regs which states that I can/can't put a 3amp fcu at the end of the new 13a fcu radial installation? Or am I...

The missus has converted the area under the stairs (to loft) in my daughter's bedroom into a den/snug kind of thing. At the moment there is a socket fed wall lamp in there with a switch on the cable fed from a double socket. My daughter is very young with inquisitve little fingers and also...

A colleague mentioned, yesterday, that there is a problem with her two way lighting system. I've tried to work out the puzzle myself by drawing diagram after diagram to illustrate how her circuit is wired up to give such a scenario, but haven't found the answer yet. The scenario is :- Two...