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    'Click and flow' click connector block. Wiring a floor lamp. Female / male socket

    Hello, I would like to use a recently bought Click and flow connector block to wire a standard lamp with 3 bulbs. Reading the instructions have left me confused. According to the instructions the female socket is 'for fixed wiring supply' but has room for 3 cables to run into this socket...
  2. N

    Cu in basement and separate cu upstairs ground floor?

    Hello I am currently rewiring an old house which has tails in basement from meter going into a 60A fused isolator which feeds all the existing circuits from a fusebox in an inconvenient location, to be made redundant. I need to send power to both a consumer unit in the basement, and a separate...
  3. C

    Underfloor heating, boiler , aga and cylinder

    Just wondering if anyone has every worked on a system with all of these working together and if so what cables I will have to run ?? ( look at title )
  4. Z

    Rewire lighting circuits with limited access

    Folks, 1950's 3-storey town house, flat roof with no roofspace access on top floor, laminate flooring throughout apart from a few bits in hall and landings ... and I need to run new lighting circuits to all 3 floors, CU on ground floor. On quick inspection looks like it is riddled with metal...
  5. N

    Volt free vokera gas boiler

    Just wondering can anybody help me. The boiler I'm working with is a vokera verve combi boiler. the house has a three zone programmer so hot water, first floor rads and second floor rads each controlled by a 2 port motorised valve.. the basement of the house has underfloor heating.. there is a...
  6. W

    How cables get from CU to first floor / loft

    quick question for you guys. If we say the house again is timer frame with plasterboard covering the frame, 2 floors ground & first. When the cables exit your CU in a domestic property and go into the wall cavity, how do they get to your loft. The ring for upstairs prob jumps into the wall...
  7. M

    EICR help please 6 flats in one house - shared CU's ????

    I have been asked to carry out an EICR on a property which is 3 floors and has been split over the years as follows. Ground floor apartment, 3 studios to first floor , 2 studios to attic conversion The property was originally one house, then converted into two flats then what it is now. In the...
  8. J

    Max floor area for industrial and commerical sockets?

    I am fully aware of A1, A2 and A3 ring circuits, but does this apply for all installations or just domestic? If so what are the regulations on the other two. I'm looking for the most efficient way to wire two floors of offices and a workshop next to it for an assignment.
  9. M

    Henley block - fuse box - what wire etc

    Need help, I need to supply a 4th floor flat from a basement flat off the same meter, there is the main fuse then the meter. I was going to put a henly block after the meter then straight up 4 floors to a fuse box, I think I need an RCD before it makes its journey up, don't know the cable I...
  10. HappyHippyDad

    Floor socket on kitchen work top?

    Amongst other things I have been asked to fit a matching floor socket on a kitchen work top. The work top already has a floor socket well away from the sink and now the customer wants one approx 600mm away from the sink. Luckily there is another option of installing a wall mounted socket 400mm...
  11. S

    RCDS in hi rise flats

    Afternoon Chaps . Just a quickie lol. Can you verify that you do not need to install a RCD in a flat on the 12th floor of a hi rise block.. Thanks guys
  12. W

    Zone 1 floor light

    Hi there,just a query bout zone 1,I have floor lights to install in zone 1 around a bath and have the correctly ip rated led walkover lights.my query-is it ok to terminate the flex from the light to the mains cable in the 2" pipe I have installed in the ground?the regs specify about types of...
  13. J

    Conduit bending of double sets

    Where is the back of the bend on the conduit former?
  14. D

    For Sale. MK Electric Data floor boxes

    i have a few floor boxes for sale, different brands Brand new and still in their boxes The best being 3 Compartment MK Floor boxes (4 of) i also have the 2 gang switched sockets that fit inside them The floor box code is 88113GRY The sockets Code is K85671 if you do a google search it will...
  15. H

    Here's an alarming one! :)

    Was at a customers house tonight, putting a couple of new lights up. On the way in and out to the van the upstairs smoke alarm would sound. She then informed me that every time she goes in and out of the house the smoke alarm goes off. It's a wooden floor and I noticed that when you stand on a...
  16. M

    Extension exposed floor joists and safe zones

    Hi extension kitchen with exposed beams. Walls to be dot and dabbed. Requested not to drill joists. in theory the bottom of exposed joists would be where plasterboard goes. So the 150 mm safe zone can be taken from the bottom of the joists? If so the cables can be run in oval against wall just...
  17. A

    Tv socket extension

    Hello, Can anyone please help us on our matter below: I've had a bit of a discussion with my work colleagues (all electricians more experienced than myself) about a job we were asked to do for one of our tenants in commercial office premises. Basically they want to install a new TV hanging...
  18. GMES

    Don't try this at work

    Bit of fun, I hope the link works, I can't believe they fell for it!! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=676323815795861
  19. G

    customer stupidity

    Didn't think I would be turning a job down all too often, but this just takes the biscuit! I know they say A jobs a job but I like to have a certain standard to my name! Got asked too install spotlights in a new kitchen, when I said ok floor above will have too be lifted to allow routing of...
  20. Pete999

    Confused

    I'm going to ask what might sound dumb coming from someone of my age and experience, I don't do much now and have done very little in the way of domestic installations, having spent much of my time on commercial or industrial work, thats not to say I don't know how to install domestic electrical...

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