Hi looking for some advice I wont be doing any work a electrician will be .. I have a outbuilding being constructed and i will need a power supply I have asked for a quote and while looking for advice have been told that the person doing the quote cant be a qualified sparky from the advice given...
Hi, need more advise as getting two different views from electricians. Ty
Detached double garage 10m from house, split equally into garden room and garage on 32a supply from cu in house. Looking to convert into 30m2 granny annex with small kitchen (induction hob, single oven), shower room...
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I’m trying to add a couple more security lights to the existing circuit but stumped at two things -
- The wires travel from the switch, to the existing security lights, then loop back (creating extra cable) to...
A friend of mine wired a 10mm 3 core armoured cable to his shed before I got involved and wired it himself already. He wants make it an air bnb with a ring circuit 32a, lighting circuit 6a, induction hob circuit 32a and a underfloor heating circuit 20a. Will the 10mm be enough for the supply and...
I always turn off main switch before removing cover or doing any work in a DB, but when should incoming supply be isolated ?
When placing a clamp-on ammeter around an incoming phase conductor in a 3 phase board a spark to board casing occurred. Later found to be pre-existing damage to insulation...
I have a single phase stainless steel pasteuriser that has two control boxes attached to it. One box houses the control for the electronics and motor for the mixing paddle. The other box houses the supply to the water jacket immersion heater. The immersion heater is 1.5kw single phase and is...
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I'm having a new boiler fitted in a new location. I need to provide power for the boiler which I'm looking to do myself.
Boiler: Ideal Logic Max 35KW Combi
I've researched the electric supply requirements from the manufacture (image below)
My consumer unit has a spare Contactum 7106B 6A...
Hi I have a question hoping I can get some help. I wanted to know if there is a 400V 3 phase supply (A/A/A) terminated on the primary side of a TMD breaker can you take 2 phases from the secondary side of the breaker (A/A) to create a 400V supply only excluding E/N and use to power up your...
Hi I have a job at work, an ev charger keeps stopping functioning, the company that looks after it has been out and said its not there problem, the supply voltage is 205v ac, (I still need to check this) but is there a step up transformer out there that that can increase the voltage to 240v...
Situation is garden summerhouse fed by own 16A RCBO in consumer unit in garage over 4mm2 (overkill !) SWA . At summerhouse this goes to sockets (no FCU) and to lights via FCU with 5A fuse. The lights are all LED so consuming minimal current From the searches I've done it would seem that is okay...
Hi. I have a shed with its own small consumer unit connected by underground SWA to a connection box on the outside wall of the house. This in turn is wired to ts own MCB in the consumer unit of the house. I am going to erect another outbuilding some distance away from the shed. SWA for this...
My customer has had a completely new supply installed to his garage. The DNO has not put a fuse in the cut out though. I'm guessing he needs to contact the DNO to discuss? I realise it would be very easy to pop a fuse in, but apart from this not being allowed, I also wouldn't know the size of...
I'm converting my old garage into a two bedroom annex. At its nearest point it is approx 10m from main house.
I plan it to be all electric, UFH, electric shower, electric hot water, cooker.
Now, I think there are 2 ways of supplying power to the new annex:
1. Run 25mm SWA tails from henley...
I will shortly be having a range cooker installed that requires 2 x 13 amp supplies. Maximum power required is stated as 3 kW and 2.85 kW respectively. I have a redundant cooker supply on its own circuit, probably 30 amp. I would like to convert this to provide the power for the new cooker. Can...
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Trying to find out if I can supply power to my house by plugging a V2L capable EV like the Hyundai Ionic 5 into a 15A power outlet after the mains power has been shut off?
As trustee of a school I'm helping them with adding a 2nd hand portacabin situated adjacent to an existing one. An electrician has advised the best way to supply the new portacabin, made up of 6 modules, is from the incoming supply to the existing portacabin, to dig a trench and install six 10mm...
There’s is currently a 3 core 6mm swa installed/40amp breaker, the garden room has its own consumer unit with a 32amp ring circuit and 6amp lighting.
The ring circuit has a 1kw heater and a computer/ printer so not a lot of load and the lights are led -total 60w.
They now want a 32amp hot tub...
I'm planning to build a shed in the far RH corner of the rear garden. It will have a reinforced concrete base, wood structure, flat roof and be just under the size that requires building regs approval.
It will take me some time to build the shed so it's not yet time to get a local electrician...
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I need advise. I like to supply electricity to my garage en block for fridge and freezer. Garage is about 50 yards away from my garden. My neighbour has no objection is I pass wire alongside fence wall using a steel post. The wire will stay within my and neighbours boundary wall and not...
I have recently installed wireless ADSL, the phone company dont offer ADSL and the satellite ADSL system I was using is too expensive and the latency was a problem.
The antenna keeps resetting, up to 30 times a day, and the suggestion is that voltage fluctuations are the problem. I do have a...
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