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My daughter's one bed flat has 4 Tesy 500w convector heaters, Centaur plus C17 programmer, Grasslin Eco save immersion controller and a two element HW tank. She works very irregular shifts at the hospital so has to constantly change the programmer to suit her shifts and often just leaves it...

Hiya first time posting so apologies if not the right place/I'm not following correct etiquette. I've moved in with my boyfriend and am doing up my flat to put on the rental market. I'd like to get a pre-certificate EICR to see what may need to be done/fixed. Where's a good place to find a...

Hi all, I have just moved into a house and went to use the light switch last night, it buzzed then shorted. Took the switch off this morning and there looks to have been an arc across to neutral(?) This switch has 2 feeds, looking at it the right switch controls the downstairs hall, the left...

I'm replacing an inline extractor fan with the exact same model with a timer function but I'm having trouble understanding the wiring diagram. I've removed the wires from the old fan and got the new one ready but I'm struggling to understand what to do next. The previous wiring setup was shown...

So I've finally got round to looking this plug as i want to box in the fuse box and its making it a awkward job. Turned all the fuses for sockets off and the small plug has been wired up to the garage trip switch ?? This is the previous owners handwork again

Weird one and was wondering if anyone can help? I originally booked for an electrician to come and have a look but had to cancel due to being in isolation for 12 weeks (fun). Can anyone give me any ideas on what this might be? Electrician said it could just need a new pull cord switch in the...

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Hi, trying find out if I can run the flex wire from electric towel rail all the into the attic where I would like to put the fused switch spur. (the attic is easily accessible via a door in upstairs bedroom. I would put the switch next to the attic door for easy access). Please see diagram. I'm...

My flat is heated by a Creda Comfortaire AB Warm Air system which uses off peak electricity to heat up bricks (like a central storage heater) and then has a fan controlled via a thermostat to distribute the warm air though ducts in the flat to each room. It's a brilliant system and I'm very...

Hi, I fitted a new shower back in July, went for the exact same kW and everything has been great until this week when I stopped getting 240V at the shower. All I can find is the breaker but there doesn't seem to be an isolation switch anywhere or a fuse, I don't have any power at the shower...

Hi Yesterday our toaster started tripping the main rcb - we believe the toaster is faulty but would of expected the kitchen socket rcb to trip not the ring main rcb - the entire ground floor tripped) - is it expected the main would trip? echo0EA4E3BB-6F23-421E-BE44-7286D7BB619C by bainbrij...

Hi, I have moved to a house with a oil Combi boiler and a thermostat (Grant) which is on the wall in the kitchen. Can I replace this with my hive receiver do you know? I'm a joiner to trade so very limited ability with things like this although I replaced my old one but it was like for like...

Hi, I’m not an electrician so won’t pretend to understand anything. But I’ve just lost all power to my flat, nothing tripped off but the power had been intermittent on and off when ever it rains. I’ve visited the meter boxes and there were a smell of burnt plastic like when a capo blows and the...

Hi all, I had a similar thread a while ago but not wanting to necro-post it and also to try and ask a more specific question, I wanted to start a new one. So: I have a double socket in a hallway, with 2 cables going into it, so assuming that it's either part of a ring circuit, or the mid-point...

About a month ago, I was in one of the office wings of the building that I work at. Went out the fire exit to enter the internal fire-escape stairwell of the wing that I was in to grab some network cables that were in a box that I needed (box of cables was in stairwell). On coming back into...

Hi all I was wondering if anyone can help, I've been battling with my Videx entryphome system for months now and have some of it working, I'm a joiner by trade and not very close up on electrics as you can probably tell. It was not a like for like handset replacement so I improvised but the...

I’m currently redoing an old house, I am abit of an amateur when it comes to electrics. The decorators have taken the light switches off and I have since bought new ones. In the master bedroom there is a double switch that controls the dressing room and the bedroom (there is another single...

If cable is installed perp to joists, threaded thru a series on in--line holes in joists, does the cable need support additional to and between the joists? The gaps between are 320-350 Not that it seems to have made much difference to the original sparks that wired the house, there's a 1.5mm...

I got a new Immermat flash timer. It 4 terminals: Live in, Neutral in, Live out and Neutral out. There are only 3 wire coming into the timer: brown, black and grey. How do I connect the wires to the terminals.

Quick electrical question I currently have a floodlight outside wired into a fused spur which has been taken from a socket many years ago. I've recently had two more flood lights added (mrs not me!!), everything on LED so not an issue with load. When the builder put the lights up he ran...