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  1. R

    Hi. New to DIY Forum. Home built '83. Main bath has a 1-gang receptacle

    Do I secure an additional 1-gang pvc box to this original 1-gang box or do I have to somehow remove the 1-gang box from the stud and install a new 2-gang box. I'm trying not to destroy the drywall and if I can secure a new 1-gang to the old 1-gang, will the 2-gang wall plate fit ok or will there...
  2. B

    Full rewire needed? First time home owner

    Hi All, Thanks for all the helpful advice in this forum. We've recently bought our first house - yay! With that being said, our building survey highlighted the wiring in the house, and an electrical installation report from 2017, when a new consumer unit was installed, suggested a rewire was...
  3. S

    Why am I getting a 420v supply from the power grid to my home when it should be 220v. All my applicances blew last night

    Why am I measuring 420v across the Live and Neutral feed into my home, when it should be 220v. My appliances have all blown
  4. B

    Rewiring the correct wires for an internal heating element to a Belling Home Oven.

    Hello first post I inherited a secondhand freestanding Belling Oven (make and model below) BEL FSE 60 MF Model Number 444449575 Serial number 31222241 Was working fine for just over 1.5 years until I smelt burning plastic. Disconnected the "cooker flip switch" power supply in my home's...
  5. A

    How to install home wiring

    So I have a circuit breaker switch which receiver current from outside the house. I have a red and black wire attached to this switch and I have run the two wires around the house. Question 1: Should I connect the red and black wire together to complete the circuit? If i dont do this, one of...
  6. G

    New Home Construction with Tripping Arc Fault Breakers

    Greetings All: I am new to this forum and hope I am in the correct sub-group. We are nearly completed with our new home construction...just a couple weeks from moving in. The 200Amp service panel has 4, sometimes 5 arc fault breakers that repeatedly trip at random times. There are NO...
  7. J

    New home. Is it 3 phase?

    Hi, just moved in, and I find this, and haven’t seen anything like it before. Is this 3 phase? any concerns at all? There is a heated pool outside. Could be needed for the pool heater. 1st post, and I thought I’d seek some guidance on here. Many thanks for replies.
  8. Natosha Jacobs

    What is the best way to go on Home Security?

    I have been reading all I can as we approach our build. I know what I want...programmable, accessible anywhere on smartphone, cameras as well as motion, fire, smoke...all that. But my worries are a few. One, I'm on Centurylink for internet and the system regularly goes down and to reset the...
  9. R

    Commercial kitchen from home

    Hi, I'd be getting an electrician to complete any work but would still like an idea first on what is and isn't possible and the best way of going about it. In a nutshell, we are looking at converting the spare area of our dining room into a mini-commercial kitchen by mainly using electrical...
  10. L

    Home alarm system

    I am looking for a home alarm without being recommended by ads and marketing. I would like a wired bell box and key pad, but wireless sensors and door contacts. As i prefer not to run out cables all over my house. Any recommendations please?
  11. Inertia

    My home inspector has never seen this before

    I’m in escrow on a 1977 octagon home and my inspector said that he has never seen a panel like this before (he did not look inside of it since he is not an electrician And it’s bolted shut pretty good). What is something like this going to cost to replace? He “guessed” 4k.
  12. A

    Question about using a wired power strip to the electrical panel in home

    Because I have no wall outlet grounded anywhere in the house, I asked an electrician to help and the solution that didn't involved destroying the walls was to wire a power strip directly into the electrical panel (i got one right where the entrance is, I don't know the exact name but every...
  13. M

    Industrial lighting for home use - UK

    Is the advice I’ve been given correct? The existing lighting in my loft and garage is dark. In my daughter’s work they had some industrial lighting tubes in the warehouse that were no longer required, so she brought round 2 big light fittings. When I looked at the fittings, they seem to have 2.5...
  14. O

    Home office light and socket

    I know this has been asked many times but I'm at a loss for explicit guidance. I'm doing my home office and I am considering putting lights and socket off the same rcbo. Tiny room I use for invoicing, bit of gaming and generally avoiding my misses. If I was doing a custom Id seperate but as...
  15. O

    Home 220 gen hookup issue

    I managed to recently acquire a generator (used) and straight away me and my father started getting it hooked up to the house. We have it set up so it feeds into my main box and powers the whole home (winch intention to just limit power usage). It feeds through a 30a breaker with a 25’ 10ga cord...
  16. C

    How to run a 5000 watt machine at home in California?

    I am interested in buying a medical device that says the max watt output is 5000 watts. As far as I know you can only run up to 20 amp tops at home. I do NOT have a 220 or 240 volt outlet. Everything is 120 volt. My questions are; I am pretty sure it is not going to work with my current...
  17. J

    Electric Issues in New Home

    Good evening all. My wife and I recently bought a house and our inspector missed some major electrical issues that I am now trying to diagnose. I'm hoping that someone might be able to shed some light on this situation. So we initially noticed that we had around 12 outlets not working in the...
  18. E

    Cycling Voltage on light fixture

    I have a fan light fixture which I wired more than a year ago. It has three dimmable LED light bulbs on the bottom which recently started exhibiting strange behavior. Last week the lights started dimming and brightening on a regular cycle, roughly every 5 seconds. The lights will start our...
  19. T

    What’s the worst Job you’ve pulled in on your way home

  20. S

    UK Running a cable for home Welder

    I am planning to run a cable from my house consumer unit to a new consumer unit in my garage. I then want to run a medium duty welder from said garage CU. I am thinking: SWA cable from 32A MCB in main CU in 4mm or 6mm ran under floor through adjacent loft to garage in / not in metal conduit...
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