electric cable

A few years back, I removed a socket. Can't recall if it had a purpose or what it was, but hid the individual wires behind some tiles. A few months later, I noticed a socket which is further along the wall stopped working. Interesting, another socket further along still works. Anyway. I am...

Hi all, l’m new here so apologies if l’ve posted in the wrong place. I’m not an electrician by any means but I’m trying to install a new light fixture which l bought from habitat. It only has a live wire and neutral wire and is class 2, double insulated. My current issue is my old ceiling...

Hi, looking to put a night lamp on this wall using existing wiring from the switch. The cables coming out the wall are blue, red and one unidentified wire which has just been attached to under a screw on the bulb casing. Couple questions: 1. Is the unidentified cable likely to be the neutral...

does anyone know if the below is done to the correct zones ? we had an electrician that is doing a full rewire, there's more examples of weird things is this within the correct zones ? I think the below is fine but seems too packed with no protection unless it doesn't need it ? the...

Hello everyone, Looking for some advice/opinions on some work that has been done so far to get electrics running down to our garden office. Essentially, it seems that the works done on getting electrics and an ethernet cable down to our garden office has not been done properly. I have attached...

don’t really know any sparks so hopefully i can get some advice please. I’ve just bought a house and all the sockets aren’t sunk into the wall and the cable is the same all ran in pvc trunking around the whole house. Looks like there’s been a rewire as mostly new cable’s but i want to chase them...

Getting my bathroom redone has turned out to be a cursed project. Every few days something else goes wrong. The new pipes that lead to the bath taps started leaking overnight, dripping through the ceiling below. Fortunately ? the floorboards are still partly up so I could see where the leak is...