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  1. M

    Surface box over flush

    Hi New member here. I am a multi-trades person dealing with commercial property maintenance. I’ve joined because I have some queries that can only be answered by pros - and I hope to be able to provide a few answers. First up: I have a flush fitted back box in dry wall. I need to run new cables...
  2. G

    Surface mounted cooker circuit

    Hi all, I have been asked to install a new cooker circuit but the customer wants everything to be surface mounted to keep costs down. Do you know of any cooker connection units that are suitable for surface mounting e.g. have an appropriate back box? Cables will also be surface mounted using...
  3. FatAlan

    Just below the soil surface in my front garden!

    Builder started scraping the vegetation off my front garden last week. Bang! Power cable no more than about 30-40mm under soil. Interesting watching the DNO guys come out and fix live. Very efficient
  4. B

    Open grommets on cu top surface

    Hi, Got some additional circuits to install as part of an extension. CU has recently been changed by another contractor to an amd3 unit, but cables enter cu through a couple of knockouts on the top with standard open grommets. As it happens, the cables are so tightly packed in one you could...
  5. O

    Ideally I need some 2G white surface boxes in PVC with 20mm knockouts

    OK. Ideally I need some 2G white surface boxes in PVC with 20mm knockouts on both sides ....... Centaur do some with a 20mm knock out on 1 side Other manufacturers seem to do them on the top and / or bottom Any suggestions chaps & chapesses Thanks
  6. marconi

    ADVICE PLEASE - SURFACE CONDUIT SYSTEM FOR REWIRE 3 BED SEMI FRC

    I am heading off next week to visit my parents (84 and 83). They live in a nicely decorated and carpeted 3 bed semi with original wiring from 1965. I noticed last time I visited they have the dreaded green goo in the 7/029 wiring. The 1/044 lighting does not have it. They only have one or...
  7. K

    Surface mounted wiring into recessed box for boiler?

    We are now 18 weeks into a six week project. There are so many things that just seem a bit botched. I'd be grateful for any advice - is this usual, legal, acceptable? 1. The electrician suggested a grid pattern for down lighters but now that the plastering is done the lights are very off...
  8. L

    Is surface mount cabling permitted?

    Forgive me if this is a dumb idiot question, but I'm not a sparky and I have a need to know. My wife and I are in a 15th Century cottage and most of the electrics is the original wiring from when electricity came to the village in the early '50s - lead covered stuff for the most part. We had a...
  9. M

    BLACK surface door contact

    How do all, does anyone know where I can purchase a black door contact from, my customer has just had a new door fitted and is insisting on a black contact.. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
  10. B

    How to layout mutiple surface mains sockets in log cabin?

    Hello I have just had a new log cabin put into our back garden, I will be using this as my home office as I work from home a lot. I will be running 10mm armoured cable from the house CU to the log cabin and have purchased a new 6 way CU for the cabin. I am now sorting out the mains sockets...
  11. oxford 12

    Time delay RCDs and cables in walls

    Your carrying out an eicr on a domestic property with a time delay 100mA RCD protecting lighting cables within 50 mm of the surface. What code would you give it c3 or c2?
  12. charlie76

    Stramit - Straw Walls - Installation Reference Method

    Evening all. Working on a bungalow at the minute with the dreaded stramit walls. All my new cables have been surface, galv capped and the builder is dot 'n' dabbing over. There is an existing radial serving sockets in the living room which is not being rewired. For those that are familiar with...
  13. HandySparks

    LED Panels, surface mount

    I've not used LED panels before, but thinking of suggesting them for a ladies changing room refurbishment in a golf club, so appearance is important. The room is about 4.5m x 9.5m. Ceiling height is about 2.4m at a guess. The existing lighting is by three LED round ceiling bulkheads, plus LED...
  14. FatAlan

    Garden Lighting

    I know this has been discussed before but here is a slant from my angle. (Does that count as a pun?) I've been asked by some friends (true in this case ) to sort out their garden lighting. They already have three RCD protected circuits from a seperate CU feeding outside junction box via SWA...
  15. C

    Garden lighting

    hello guys I have a garden lighting install coming up, Everything is decided apart from the type of cable to use. We have bedding lighting on a 30ma RCD so I assume I can do away with SWA or if anyone has any suggestions?
  16. R

    Just had full rewire done, cables very close to surface or coming through skim

    we just had a full rewire done on a 1920's property. Electrics been completed and signed off with certificate. Making good on wall chase areas done by plasterer hired by electrician. We have just come to decorating and found that in a few areas the cables haven't been chased deep enough and are...
  17. Pat H

    Solutions for Surface mount to conduit.

    Anyone got any other solutions for getting from a surface mount socket to surface mount conduit (plastic) I often have to add a radial spur from a ring main socket. Assuming I need to retain the double gang 13A outlet I either: Add a single gang back box next to the double socket. Stick a Fuse...
  18. gazdkw82

    Shower Cable Surface Mounted

    I was at my folks house yesterday and when I went to the toilet I noticed whoever has installed the electric shower (it's been there a good 10 years) fed the cable down the wall in trunking. The shower is slightly offset to the bath so I guess it would sit on the outside of the shower curtain...
  19. Dan

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  20. P

    Testing hotplates on an electr cooker

    This is maybe not strictly a PAT testing question but you PAT testers might be able to help. I am renovating a set of electric cookers and start by testing them disconnected from the supply using PAT testing principles. So I test for earth continuity and insulation resistance. If OK then I...

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