Hello all, first post by a new member so apologies for any posting faux pas in advance. (Hopefully this is the correct place to ask this rather long question)
I’m in the process of re fitting my kitchen and was planning on making a couple of minor changes to the wiring installation. All of the...
Hello there, a friend of mine is having her bungalow rewired and the contractor has told her she has to have her kitchen ceiling fan removed as it a hazard. He told her if the gas was accidentally left on the fan would circulate the gas and that the fan motor was a likely spark producer. Has...
We are having our kitchen moved to a different part of the house. I have asked that the wiring for the new kitchen be using a new consumer board. The old kitchen will be changed into a bedroom. What changes need to happen to sockets and wiring of old kitchen. Also in the new room where...
Please can you help?
I have 2 lighting circuits installed in the ceiling in the kitchen
- newly installed.
Both on separate circuits with independent switches
It is 8 recessed LED fittings For each
One set is silent when on
The other set has a pronounced buzzing sound when turned on. This...
Hi guys,
I just needed some advice on running a 2.5mm cable.
As I'm still a trainee doing my college course, I thought I'd ask the experienced guys on how I can do this.
I have made the video on youtube to explain exactly where the cable needs running.
Here is the link.
Any advice is...
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Looking for advice. I have string lights in my kitchen and twice now, where the wires connect to the transformer they melt! I have the transformer connected to the mains which comes from the wall switch. Any idea why the wires are melting?
Hi guys. I've had my kitchen 're fitted and in doing so 're wired. The hob and cooker both off of 32 ampseperate breakers in 6mm cable.
The rest is on a socket loop 2.5 mm cable in to a 32 amp breaker. But linked into the loop is a 3 gang isolator grid for cooker hood fridge and washing...
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I was asked today to add 2 extra sockets on to an existing kitchen ring, however the board is an old wylex with the push in MCBs so no rcd protection. To add the extra sockets would it require A board change/rcd isolater?
Thanks
Currently pricing up new electrics for a new kitchen. I am not a spark nor do I intend on doing the work - I am simply saving some time and money by speccing exactly what I want prior to getting quotes.
I have the following appliances on dedicated circuits:
Fridge freezer (fed from B20 MCB on...
I’m a retired Electrical Engineer (was MIEE when I worked) and worked on electrical systems in nuclear power stations so I consider myself competent to perform electrical work. However, I have never been registered to perform work on domestic electrical installations. A friend asked me if I...
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If anyone could help.
We have blue led strip lighting under and over our kitchen cabinets, after a few days of moving in some of the lighting went off.
I’ve looked under the cabinet and found the attached photo.
1) I it wired properly?
2) how comes the yellow and green wire is...
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We are rewiring a house and have reached the kitchen.
We have run a 2.5mm cable from consumer unit which will connect as ring for over worktop sockets, and in the same ring we plan to run spurs (switched and fused) for:
1. washing machine
2. dishwasher
3. boiler
4. gas hob...
Popped in my Sisters house earlier today to see how she was getting on having a new kitchen fitted.
First impressions were quite good, install of units so far seemed good, new floor was good, my sister then pointed out the new sockets that he had installed.
Sockets were loose ready for him to...
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I am hoping you can provide me with some insight. I've just bought a new light fitting, and before fitting I attempted to turn the downstairs lights off at the CU. It killed all lights bar the kitchen light (the one I was planning to change ). However, to stop power to the the kitchen...
We do work for a beposke kitchen company who more and more of time are having granit worktops with grove taken out underneath for LED tape
We are currently using IP rated tape but proves difficult sometime to string away the plastic cover to solid on joints to round the corners
I’m...
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My electrician is currently wiring a new kitchen and has wired in a cooker switch to a cooker fused spur shown in the attached photo for the electric cooker oven. He has used 6mm flex wiring for the circuit. The cooker hob is gas. He has installed a B32 for the circuit back at the...
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We have recently purchased an 1800s 3 bed terraced house and have been told we need the electrics looked at.
The main board has not been changed since the 1960s and we wanted to find a competent electrician who can get this done for us over the next few weeks. We're in the Scottish...
Can someone please confirm if a single spur off a ring main is allowed in a kitchen? My plumber has said you cannot have spurs in the kitchen, must all be ring main?
Use: To create an extra socket under the kitchen cabinets, 6" off ground, will be used for single ELV DC Alexa PSU as limited...
Hi all, I'm a newbie to the forum and I'm replacing a wall mounted extractor fan in the kitchen. The existing fan wasn't working when we bought the house, but it is wired on twin and earth cable and is switched off and on by an isolation switch (no pull cord). I assume that it didn't have a...
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