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...
Im after a metal clad 1g switch plate with a 1g switch and em light test key switch on same plate. Doesn't seem to be one anywhere. I know I can use a grid switch or Scolmore Click. Anyone know why this is?
Has anyone used a brass gland plate to earth a line of SWA glands e.g. at a DB, and had anyone such as an NICEIC inspection flag it up as non-compliant?
I am proposing to screw a flat plate of brass onto the top of the DB and mount the glands through it with their usual locknuts, A brass bolt...
I wish to install a bathroom extractot and cooker hood from an existing 32 amp 6mm cable . I intend to use a duel applliance outlet plate to split into two 6mm cables running to seperate 3amp FCU's from there 1mm cables to all parts that follow . See diagram . Is this in line withs regs. Thanks .
Hi everyone,
I have read few posts about dual appliance outlet and wonder now if it can be used in my case. I have 32a 6mm cable to 45a switch supplying 6200w hob. Current oven is 2,4kw 13a plug. It will be replaced with 7,4kw induction hob and 3,6kw oven. Can hob circuit be used for both...
I have a Salton Mini Oven with one 8 inch and one 6 inch solid plates. The 6 inch plate has stopped working and I went and got a new plate from ARB today but when I got home, I realized the new plate has 4 connecters numbered 1, 2, 4, 3 where the old one only had 2 (Live and Neutral). I assume...
Been asked to fit new oven , which comes with a 13a plugtop , there is no socket close to plug into , if i cut plug off and connect into cooker unit connection behind cooker , do i have to adjust the 30a cooker unit fuse.
Evening all, got this rating plate on a portable feed augar motor, it's currently wired in some seriously past it SY cable, the farmer wants to renew it , I've suggested H07RNF as best choice, but I'm not clued up on reading motor plates to size it, I see 29 on the plate, and assume it to be...
Hi all,
Trying to change a facetted. Not sure how to do it. Got a bit master phone line with this layout
A White
B Orange
2 White
3 Green
4 Black
5 Orange
I want to change it for a new metal face plate, which has
1 2 3 4 5 6
What do the cables do.
Thanks for your help
Cheers Tony
hi. i know what sockets most be at least 300mm from the cooker. but if socket is removed and blank plate installed, does it still need to be 300 mm away form the cooker?
I have a 1-gange box on the wall where an old wall sconce was. The new sconce has a round wall plate. Is there a way I can convert the box to accommodate the round plate without having to replace it with a round junction box?
Quick query,
When installing a kitchen, is a cooker outlet plate a requirement (recommendation) or could I bring the heat resistant flex from the oven directly into the cooker control unit (45A switch with socket outlet)?
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I’ve just had a new stud wall put up. I have chrome light switches throughout the house but with metal pattress boxes. Am I correct in thinking a plastic drywall pattress box will be ok with a metal switch as long as the CPC is wired into the faceplate....or do I put in another noggin and use...
I wired 3 plate method loft light from supplying from my sisters bedroom light ceiling rose, the only way the loft light I fitted tuned on is if my sisters bedroom light was off, so then I it was really bugging me I went back to my connections supplying the loft light at my sisters ceiling rose...
Hi.I am a DIY enthusiasts and do have the basic knowledge of electric science.
As I am about to refurbish my kitchen,I have bought an electric single oven power rated at 3.60 kw and a gas hob power rated 1.3kw.
The existing setup is:6mm t/e cable running from CU/Fuse box (on a 32amp MCB) to 45 A...
Hi, my daughter has a mitsubishi colt 1.1 litre 56 plate. Her car beeps 3 times and then changes the radio station. This has baffled me. Does anybody have any ideas please. Thank you.
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