Hi folks,
We moved into a new flat about 6 months ago and have realised we're being billed for all of our electricity at the expensive "all day" rate - despite having a very large "Thermaflow" electric boiler which is designed to draw tons of power heating up water overnight to use throughout...
Evening,
Although I cannot see a specific regulation can anyone come up with a reason why someone could not run 2 line and 2 neutrals with both circuits fed from the steel wire?
To verify this would feed 2 number lighting circuits down one path, but
I.e 1No 5 core swa.
From a cost point of...
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I am running a new upstairs lighting circuit and need to find a route down to the consumer unit which is in the cupboard under the stairs. The easiest and least disruptive route would be via the airing cupboard, in trunking, then under the floor from which I can drop down through the ceiling...
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I have an open plan flat and want to get power to a kitchen island. I really want to avoid getting it through a pole from the ceiling. It's a new build approximately 13 years and has under floor heating. I believe it is electrical under floor heating, and from making a drill hole under a...
Hi all,
I have stupidly drilled through the same electrical cable TWICE 1 inch apart. This is above a twin plug socket which obviously now doesn’t work. The holes are about 1m above the socket.
As a temporary measure I was going to connect the wires individually with Wago connectors but the 2...
On a domestic inspection and testing certificate or conditional reports, I always put maximum disconnection time permitted by BS7671 as 0.4 sec. I've been given a testing job for an HMO property and on the previous conditional report, the maximum disconnection time of 0.4 sec is only given for...
Hi any one got some advice on putting a cooker extractor hood discharge through timber frame house wall. Reason I ask is that I use to work (labourer) on timber frame houses a long time ago and think there could be some sort o guide lines related to going through the timber wall and membrane ...
hello.
Dejavu for some folk, but here’s the scenario:
My house is two-storey brick, my shed is 10’x3’ (odd size I know, but the back yard is small) made entirely of wood, no metal at all.
The gap between the house wall and shed is 300-400mm.
At present there is no power to the shed, so I have...
Hello peeps, just looking for clarification on my practices here .
In the past , I have taken many cables through the same hole drilled in a joist . Mostly lighting and smoke detector cables , not heavily loaded ones , but on site , time is sometimes critical.
Have I followed " normal practice...
There was a post yesterday, can't recall the exact one. I'll start by saying I wouldn't do it and never have, there were several reasons and answers that, although they provided some sort of response, there was never any definitive proof as to whether it was against the BS 7671.
Now I don't know...
We are rewiring a stair lighting circuit and the door entry supply passes through one of our light fittings which is a seperate circuit from the lights.
Is this ok if it is marked up at the DB?
Hello,
I drilled a hole late last night after a long day and stupidly didn't check the wall directly under the plug socket (I know).
The RCD tripped and it appears to have just exposed the copper wires, just the sheath is damaged (pics attached).
From a bit of googling it seems there is no...
Hi just wondered if someone could clarify the regs for me,got a control panel feeding a machine isolated by a three phase isolator which also turns the lighting off ,but we need the lighting to remain on when the isolator is switched off,what are the current regs regarding this thanks
Hi all,
Just fitted a car charger , I need to put an earth spike in but having trouble siting it, the main consumer unit is on the garage wall , directly behind it is earth as the garage is set into the hill if you know what I mean so if I drill through the wall I will hit the mud, is it ok to...
Hi,
I have asked an electrician to install electrics in my house's garage. I'm happy with the electrical work he has proposed and quoted for, but I wanted to check his approach to running the cable to the garage.
A armoured cable will exit the house through the meter cupboard on a side wall...
Hi gents,
I am going to a job to install some new external lighting on a factory on Monday. There are 5 new circuits to run in total. They want these to be controlled by a time clock an photo cell but also run through a key switch and contactor. It’s been some time since I wired contactors and...
Hi,
I bought some new lightbulbs the other day (photo attached).
On the packaging is a symbol of a bulb in a house, crossed through.
Please can anyone advise what the symbol means?
Thanks in anticipation!
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