dormer style house
do i need one or two alarms upstairs here
is one in the lobby beside bedroom enough?
i have 2 in entrance and corridor below
+kitchen heat and living room optical smoke
davelerave
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Hi,
I've moved into a 1920's 3 bed semi that needs a rewire. Currently got old wylex CU with rewireable fuses, sockets on skirting boards etc.
I'm after a rough guide on how much a rewire should cost. This is roughly what i'll need
Cellar - New CU, 4 x double sockets, 2 x lights
Garage, -...
Have a customer who has three TVs, all new Freeview-enabled models. Lounge TV is fed from aeriel on roof and picks up Freeview signal ok. Kitchen TV and Main bedroom TV are both fed from an aeriel inside the loft. Both have poor signal and terrestrial only. There is a sky dish with a quad lnb...
Ok. been looking to fit one of those fibre optic light systems for daughters bedroom. Has anybody done one berfore, how much of a ball ache is it (but i dont mind as its for my daughter) and if so reccomend any specific systems??
this is the cheapest i hav seen, but not always swayed at how...
ukpablo
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aus
bedroom
ceiling
electricians' talk
fibre
lighting
lights
Just completed a tasty domestic PIR today loaded with problems. The only concern I have is regarding sinks in the bedroom with a light switch on the wall next to it supplying a recessed spotlight above. With all the bits located in building regs, BRB and OSG, there apears nothing related to just...
Graeme Harrold
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building
electricians' talk
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light switch
price
switch
My mate has converted a bathroom into a wet room etc. He has not installed any new circuits but moved old circuits (lighting) Sockets from a bedroom.
He has converted the bedroom into a wet room.
Does he need a part p cert or will a minor works cert be ok as he has added no more circuits ...
eco-tech
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bathroom
bedroom
certs
electrical work
electricians' talk
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minor
works
try and make this as brief as poss. customer wants 4 extras sockets and 6 downlighters in bedroom. prob is, his CU is an old wylex 3036 8 way ,no RCD, and is going to be relocated and replaced when he has an extension built. it's in the back of a kitchen cupboard virtually impossible to work on...
Hi, I wonder if anyone can help with my project :confused:
My bungalow has two lighting systems from the mains. One for the three bedrooms and one for the reception rooms/garage.
The rear bedroom is the last light on the circuit and consists of a single switch to one light.
I want to put two...
bri7
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aus
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electricians' talk
extra
lighting
lights
Hi, thanks for your help last night, I now know how to install.
Heres question 2:
My bedroom is the smallest room in the house but would suit 4 spot lights.
I'm wondering what you would recommend for me to buy (on eBay).
240v or 12v LV spots?
Maybe 12v spots because of the size of the...
Hi, I live in an ex council property (3 bedroom), smallish house on a block. Not sure when it was built (wired), bit cofused on the lighting wiring because i'm used to doing it the way i'm shown at work.
Basically I currently have a light up with 2 neutrals and 1 live at it. But at my switch I...
MrTrance
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downlights
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lighting
lights
putting
Teenagers Bedroom / Parental control
A customer has asked me to provide a method of control over a teenagers bedroom sockets to stop use of PC and games etc so they do not interfere with there study time.
has any body done this?
or
What would you suggest for this?
Thanks guys.
Need help with regulations on having a bath in a bedroom (boutique hotel style). My electrician says you can't put water within 3 metres of an electrical socket, however loads of hotels do it.
Can anyone advise please.
I would really like some advice exactly how you would price for a new build plot..
Im not after an actual price as i have no spec as of yet but wondering how you work out your total figure per plot..
Are you doing it price per point?
Is that a different price for sockets, and lighting for...
TPES
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Hello everyone
I need to find a way to add a downstairs electic shower unit for my elederly mother (87) who is partly disabled.
Is it possible to put a shower into the corner of a bedroom, and still retain plug sockets for normal bedroom items such as telly and electric blanket. The bedroom...
jandjrothwell
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I cannot afford an electrician therefore I am having a go at my bedroom light myself.
The problem is that there are 3 cables where the old light was, therefore 3 x red legs and 3 x black as well as the earths.
The light fixture I have has a connection for L, N and Earth.
Now I understand that...
Kingbroady
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