Morning chaps
Im going to look at a job tonight on my way home where a guy says he has a garage fed from a 13 amp unswitched fused spur in his kitchen. { theres no rcd protection in this house }
He tells me the spur is red hot to touch and also a few months back a socket melted in his garage...
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i have been to a job to price up fitting a replacement towel rail and change light fitting in a very small cloakroom with a toilet and basin. The fcu for the t rail is above the skirting but underneath the sink. In my opinion I feel that the fcu should be moved to outside the...
I've got a switched fused spur which feeds another switched fused spur - a bit pointless so I want to remove one.
I realise I could just fit a blanking plate and join the wires inside the box but I would prefer to bury the cable inside the wall and plaster over.
What is the correct procedure...
Hi everyone was looking for some advice on a job that I looked at last night. The house has a new boiler being installed which needs a supply to it. There is an existing cooker switch wired in 6mm on a 30A fuse going to a single socket which the electric oven is plugged into. There is also a...
i have been told by another electrician that a fused spur for a water heater cannot be above a draining board without rcd protection in a office building.I cannot find anything in the regs to confirm with this,can anyone help? also in the same building i have extended a ring main & changed the...
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I have one socket in my utility room, this socket is part of the down stairs ring main. I have taken a fused spur from this socket and ran two sockets of it, room is smaller than 12m squared, so 3 sockets is recommended for this size room, is that correct? I have used 2.5mm cable to run the...
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Can anyone help with my query please. If a fused spur has been installed by an electrician, tested and the relevant certificate filled out, can an alarm engineer connect an intruder panel to the spur using flex.
I am being told by a colleague this has to be done by an electrician...
Need to put some power to a small wall mounted electric heater that takes will take it's power from a 5 amp fused switch outlet. It's in a flat and the least disruptive way I can see of doing this is by running a 2.5mm T&E cable from the immersion switch to the 5A switch fused spur then...
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Right can anyone make any suggestions for this one.
I have to connect up a security light from a single switched fused spur. The op currently has an outside light connected to the spur. They want to keep this and it needs to stay on the switch. The security light also ideally needs to...
Hi all,
I'm a newby and seeking some advice.
My aim is to add a socket (power source to run led lights -12v transformer) from the existing single socket. The socket in place comes off a single cable out of the wall to a fused spur (and then to the socket).
I am unsure if I have a ring...
good evening,
brain has gone walkabouts tonight
can i put a 13amp switch fused spur from a spur i.e
sockets ring main - spur- switched spur?
the load is only a t.v nothing heavy
alternative would put the swicth fuse in before the spur, then spur off the spur but like to avoid as decorated...
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Hi Guys,
My first post so please bear with me.
I'm not a domestic electrician but am capable of carrying out most work myself. This has led to my parents requesting that I carry out a 'small project' for them and involves installing a couple of additional double plugs in their conservatory. As...
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for fitting a supply , single phase, to a lift, 6A load. We state a local fused double pole fused switch, rated at 13amp.
does BS 7671 state for fixed equipment, where the local isolation switch should be positioned ?
thanks
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I need to spur off a ring main to two locations a Boiler Control and Downflow heater.
Is there anything wrong with installing one 13A fused spur unit adjacent to a socket on the ring main and running both cables out the back of it to seperate fused spur units in the appropriate locations?
I have a Cooker circuit on 4mm T&E using a 32A MCB. I have established that my dining room 3 double socket outlets is wired as a radial spur directly off the cooker circuit using 2.5mm T&E (I didn't do it). I assume this is not acceptable but I was wondering; if I add a 13A fused spur for the...
Hello i am wondering if someone could help me out please.
I have been asked to installed a floodlight and my plan is to spur off the existing ring main to a FCU to feed the new light.
My question is what tests do i need to carry out?
Im a little unsure of whether i have to test the whole ring...
Hi. I am moving a TV from once place in my living room to another. There was a single socket on a 13A switched fused spur which I've disconnected, I'm replacing it with a double socket in the new location, original switch is still in place. I'm using 2.5mm to wire the new spur. I've wired up the...
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