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    Replacing wiring and plug on an LED floor lamp

    Hi there, I'm hoping someone may be able to advise on whether my LED floor lamp can be repaired or not. The cable has split from the plug, as per the below photos. Can anyone recommend a replacement plug/transformer + wiring? There's a join under the base of the lamp, which you can see in the...
  2. D

    Dropped MCB onto tiled floor, damaged internally?

    Hi folks, quick question, I dropped a C16 MCB from 5 feet up, onto a tiled floor. No visible damage so I put it back with the others. Could it be damaged internally so as it would allow current to flow but fail to actuate in the event of over-current? Or is it a case of, if it's damaged, it...
  3. Sara Davies

    Question for a new product: uni student. What jobs are done on the floor / kneeling most?

    Good day I'm a university student on a product design course. To create a product around electricians day to day work making your lives easier. My main question is what work do you conduct most on or near the floor? What tools are used in those jobs? lastly what are your issues an...
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    Ground Floor Bathroom Extractor Fan Query

    Hi. My current axial Xpelair model 92614AW ground floor bathroom extractor fan is installed in zone 1 and doesnt work efficiently at all. Its wall mounted but doesnt go straight to the outside as there is now an extension on the back of the bathroom. I think either I need to get a more powerful...
  5. M

    Electrak Busbar under floor

    Customer has a set up using Electrak 63A under floor busbar, fed in 10mm armoured and backed up with a 63A c type mcb. From this he has 32A unfused tap offs wired in 4mm in flexi conduit going to 16A rcd which then feeds 3.15A desk top supplies. Am I right in thinking the 4mm feed needs...
  6. K

    under floor heating 32amp final ring advice needed

    Hi all looking for some advice as a non sparky , be gentle :) To be clear I wont be doing the work myself , just want to be better informed. I already had an underfloor heating mat rated at 6.8A installed in my kitchen , this worked off a fused spur (13A) on the kitchens 32amp Ring final...
  7. RicoRepairs

    Ground floor lighting trips circuit breaker.

    Hi all, so just moved into a new property, the light fitting/rose was removed from the living room, nothing looks to be shorting (But there is a single neutral with no connector block?) but the breaker trips straight away. There are 4 fittings on this floor, none with bulbs in, none with any...
  8. M

    Industrial Floor Sander not getting enough current?

    I have an at my local scout group. They have employed a company to sand & varnish their hall floor. the company is using a couple of Lagler Hummel machines 230v 50Hz each requiring a 16A supply. (as a screenshot). A 16A fused socket has been connected to the hut ring main (by replacing a...
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    3rd Floor Flat Lost Main Earth

    Hi All 3rd floor flat has incoming supply via Conduit which was being used as the earth. Conduit at some stage has failed leaving the property with no suitable earth. Would it be necessary to run a new sub mains and renew the supply also or is it within the regulations to run a separate...
  10. Blake1

    Earthing spike for upper Flat via flat ground floor

    Two flats, I live on ground floor, neighbours have just moved out from upper floor flat, lived there over 20 years. Spoke to new owner last weekend about possible issue with electricity could they check empty flat. Issue concerns high electricity bill, whereas previous owner paid half for their...
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    Weird old wires found under my floor

    ...fortunately not connected to anything! The black one with the red stripe has conductors consisting of 3 strands, each about 0.75mm diameter which seem to be copper. with some other metal coating. (or maybe I'm imagining the reddish glint on the cut ends...). Insulator in terrible...
  12. Mark42

    Metal saddles inside trunking when only 400mm off a concrete floor?

    I'm a bit out of touch re 18th edition. Is it really necessary to fit loads of additional metal saddles inside trunking when it's only 400mm above the concrete ground floor of a sports hall? All the stuff about premature collapse makes sense, but where, in this case, if the cable going to...
  13. newfutile

    Metal chequer plate floor bonding

    In a communal electric intake room for flats (meter room) there is lots of bonded trunking and tray, also the metal door frames were found to have extraneous parts linked to earth , these have now been bonded. They have now fitted a metal floor , i have not conducted a IR test to earth as yet...
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    External floor lights, WHY?

    Has anyone seen any of these last more that five years? Even then the work involved in resolving issues becomes crazy expensive. I think these are mostly specified by architects and no sane Spark would suggest them. Here's some I had the misfortune to be asked to "get working", yeah right...
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    The consumer Units for flats in communal area

    My daughter has ground floor flat, there are four flats on each floor. The consumer Units for each flat are located just outside each flat in the communal hall way, Is this against the Regulations?
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    Repairing damaged Under Floor Heating Element...?

    Just been to a customer's who has just had LVT type flooring installed on top of under floor heating. Unfortunately now whenever its turned on, it trips the RCD. So seems the floor fitters have damaged an element. Its in 2 sections, one reads 50ohm, the other is open circuit. So defiantly...
  17. Msitekkie

    Height of Zone 1 2.5m above the shower tray or 2.25m off the floor?

    When looking for the height of Zone 1 above a shower, we typically look at the diagrams which show 2.25m above floor level, with no Zone 2 above (although some variants of the zone diagram on various websites do show a zone 2 above a shower). The text however (under 702.32), says Zone 1 is...
  18. K

    Top floor lighting gone - fuse replaced, still no action.

    Hi, As per...the top floor lighting is all gone - i've tested and changed fuses on every part of the box and I cannot get the lights back on. Bulbs changed for ones I know 'work' too. What has happened? (if wrong forum sorry)
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    Huge job!!! Cutting Raised Floor

    Hello guys, I have 300 holes to be cut for floorboxes in raised floor tiles(office type) Steel cover with chipboard inside. We are used to cut the tiles with Jigsaw but after some cutting jigsaw always the cuts become at an angle and not staight.. So the question is what would be the best...
  20. K

    GFCI outlet required for dish washer ? outlet height from floor ?

    The more I learned about home electricity, the more paranoid I become about outlets in my home. First, in my 40+ yrs old home, ALL outlets are 9 inch above the floor surface (measured from the floor to the lowest edge of the outlet), including garage outlets. I just learned that NEC requires 12...
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