Hi all. In our lounge we have a 3 gang light switch. One switch switches the ceiling light, 2nd switch switches a pair of wall lights, and the 3rd one switches a picture light mounted above the fireplace. Ironically, I may need to remove the picture light to make way for a large picture. So my...
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Iam a trainee electrician currently have my 18th edition and doing my level 2/3 diploma
I have been working with a electrician for the last few years so have some experience
I do struggle with pricing jobs and feel I tend to under cut myself and would...
I was in a thread the other day and somebody showed me a screen shot of a, what I think if I remember rightly was, the "install EF to homepage" on mobile devices.
I had the notification and just swiped it away.
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Recently moved into a house from the 70s. There's no ceiling light in the living room. Assuming the switch for the room was to one of the outlets for a lamp. After testing to find which outlet it was, to my surprise, it was all of the outlets in the room. Yes, One switch turns ON/OFF every...
I have a switch box, I believed is from the 63 installed, that I want to remove but couldn’t because the conduit connection to the box looks like it’s press in. There is no nut. How would I go about removing it.
Our Northern California home built on 1977 has a built-in Gard-Site Smoke Detector model 081-612. It does not has battery. Its mounted on the ceiling. We assume its AC hardwired, correct? Its making false alarms. How do we remove it? Thank you very much for your help.
It's made by CASADY...
I was wondering if you know whether this is something I can safely disconnect and remove? Think it's from old internet set up. The cover said virgin media. Thanks!
We had our gas disconnected last week and the meter removed. We need to start removing the redundant gas pipes in inside the property. There is earthing connected to the main gas pipe 1 meter after it enters the property. Can we go ahead and remove all the redundant gas pipes including the...
Dear all,
would appreciate your help in identifying what this and how do i replace it with another one. As it won't unscrew clockwise or counter clockwise and doesn't pull out either.
Many thanks,
sosodef
...Replace it with a connection to a ground spike via the heat sink.
The 1.5kW GTI has no off grid capability.
This separates the house PE from the inverters but is it the right thing to do?
New to the forum, this is my first post.
Evening all.
Following some brilliant help yesterday I have returned for more advice 😂.
I currently have this horrendous live point randomly situated in the middle of my wall.
I would ideally like to remove this and cover it.
My question is, can you please recommend something to isolate...
I have a 7 year old integrated Neff K42 fridge freezer and I need to replace a couple of the attached kitchen cabinet doors hinges. In order to do so I need to remove the appliance from the casing but cannot figure out how to do it.
I have removed all of the visible screws on the...
I have a Generac GP8000e generator that I plan on back feeding the main panel of my home with the portable generator, power inlet box L14-30a and breaker. First, I will install an interlock between the utility main breaker and the generator back feed breaker. I will only use the L14-30...
I have a dimmer switch in my dining room. My son was begging me to remove the dimmer switch because he thinks it will burn out the ceiling fan motor (yes it controls both light and ceiling fan together). I told him many times it makes no sense but he never listened. Then one day he decided to...
Hi all,
I got Economy 7 and 2 consumer boards, but only want 1 consumer board as it'll look a lot tidier and save me replacing the E7 board as its very old and needs replacing. The E7 board only runs the immersion tank, used to run heaters too but I moved those circuits to the main consumer...
I have a 4-bulb fluorescent light, previously wired for T-12?, now wired for T-8, with a bad ballasts. I think my tombstones are non-shunted. It looks like I can just remove the ballast, direct wire the whites to one side of each of one end's tombstone, and the blacks to the other side of the...
I have an electric, slide-in range, GE model JSP42DN2WW, that continually shows a hot surface light on, although the surface is not actually hot. After going to YouTube, I can see that the problem most likely lies in one of the burner's limiters being stuck. The YouTube video is a good one...
Hello
I'm trying to change a light switch but the screw caps are stuck.
I've tried all the tips I can find including blue-tac, sticky tape, levering with a stanley knife and a small screwdriver.
Any other tips anyone has please?
Thanks
Karl
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