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    Lighting issue in first floor flat. Advice please guys

    Hi All, I carried out a EICR on a first floor flat the other day. Power circuits tested fine. There are 2 x Lighing circuits for the property. They have both been terminated into the same rcbo as there is apparently a borrowed neutral somewhere on circuit 1. Not ideal but workable as isolated on...
    • Damian Petsas
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    • advice first flat floor issue lighting please
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  2. M

    Rewirable fuses date, code

    1. Hi can you please tell me when rewirable fuses in consumer units were phased out. 2. A spotlight bar is fitted to ceiling with original ceiling rose base pushed up into void between ceiling and floor boards. Code C2? Thank you
    • midgetman
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    • ceiling code current floor fuse fuses installed rewirable still
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  3. N

    Moving main supply, fuse and meter (homeowner enquiry)

    I'm having building work done and would like to have the incoming supply, main fuse and meter all moved. The house is one end of a terrace of three and the main supply is overhead to the other end of the terrace. It crosses the front of the three houses at 2nd floor level and then drops down our...
    • Neil Jay
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    • enquiry floor fuse main meter moving other supply three
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: DIY Electrical Advice
  4. P

    UNDERFLOOR HEATING Quick Question.

    Hi chaps. I've come over from the Tilers Forum for some precious advice. In an hours time I hope to install Electric UNDERFLOOR heating in my own bathroom, and I need some quick advice. Its about the temp sensor. I suddenly saw that it "should" be installed in a conduit to allow its removal if...
    • P4ulo
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    • floor heating probe question quick sensor spare underfloor underfloor heating
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Central Heating Systems
  5. A

    Best and quickest way to cut floor boxes into raised floor tiles?

    Hi all, was just wondering if anyone had any recommendations for cutting out floor boxes in the raised floor tiles. If you know what I'm talking about and have seen them, then you'll know that they're wood with a metal casing around the tile. I've done 100's of these when I was an apprentice and...
  6. D

    Is this Legal - DNO homemade stand lol...

    Well can't say I'm shocked but I wonder what the meter guy was thinking while mounting this meter on this free standing backboard? Note the age of the incomer and the half sized N tail (First one) ... I hope its just a solid link in that fuse holder :whatchutalkingabout
  7. C

    RCD total load vs MCBs

    Hi all again. Enough with helping my friend and back to the main thing, which is back to studying. I am working on my final assessments (practice for my final L3 exam). Big 2 story house with the following requirements (protected devices given accordingly and installation method C, clip...
    • Carlos Arruda
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    • circuit floor house load mcbs rcd total
    • Replies: 15
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  8. J

    Cable ducting under new kitchen floor slab

    I want to lay conduit under a 100mm concrete kitchen floor slab that will be poured in a couple of weeks time (to complete a ring and connect a kitchen island). This will be in preparation for my electrician to do all wiring once the builders are done. Does anyone know if I will need to use...
  9. T

    'Click and flow' click connector block. Wiring a floor lamp. Female / male socket

    Hello, I would like to use a recently bought Click and flow connector block to wire a standard lamp with 3 bulbs. Reading the instructions have left me confused. According to the instructions the female socket is 'for fixed wiring supply' but has room for 3 cables to run into this socket...
    • tigrou
    • Thread
    • block click connector female floor lamp lighting lights socket wiring
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: DIY Electrical Advice
  10. N

    Cu in basement and separate cu upstairs ground floor?

    Hello I am currently rewiring an old house which has tails in basement from meter going into a 60A fused isolator which feeds all the existing circuits from a fusebox in an inconvenient location, to be made redundant. I need to send power to both a consumer unit in the basement, and a separate...
    • NickPynn
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    • basement floor ground separate upstairs
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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    Underfloor heating, boiler , aga and cylinder

    Just wondering if anyone has every worked on a system with all of these working together and if so what cables I will have to run ?? ( look at title )
    • CybiAnt
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    • boiler cylinder floor heating system under underfloor underfloor heating
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Central Heating Systems
  12. Z

    Rewire lighting circuits with limited access

    Folks, 1950's 3-storey town house, flat roof with no roofspace access on top floor, laminate flooring throughout apart from a few bits in hall and landings ... and I need to run new lighting circuits to all 3 floors, CU on ground floor. On quick inspection looks like it is riddled with metal...
    • zippy
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    • access ceiling circuit circuits conduit floor joists lighting limited rewire
    • Replies: 52
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  13. N

    Volt free vokera gas boiler

    Just wondering can anybody help me. The boiler I'm working with is a vokera verve combi boiler. the house has a three zone programmer so hot water, first floor rads and second floor rads each controlled by a 2 port motorised valve.. the basement of the house has underfloor heating.. there is a...
    • Nipex83
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    • boiler first floor free gas gas boiler house valves vokera volt volts
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  14. W

    How cables get from CU to first floor / loft

    quick question for you guys. If we say the house again is timer frame with plasterboard covering the frame, 2 floors ground & first. When the cables exit your CU in a domestic property and go into the wall cavity, how do they get to your loft. The ring for upstairs prob jumps into the wall...
  15. M

    EICR help please 6 flats in one house - shared CU's ????

    I have been asked to carry out an EICR on a property which is 3 floors and has been split over the years as follows. Ground floor apartment, 3 studios to first floor , 2 studios to attic conversion The property was originally one house, then converted into two flats then what it is now. In the...
  16. J

    Max floor area for industrial and commerical sockets?

    I am fully aware of A1, A2 and A3 ring circuits, but does this apply for all installations or just domestic? If so what are the regulations on the other two. I'm looking for the most efficient way to wire two floors of offices and a workshop next to it for an assignment.
  17. M

    Henley block - fuse box - what wire etc

    Need help, I need to supply a 4th floor flat from a basement flat off the same meter, there is the main fuse then the meter. I was going to put a henly block after the meter then straight up 4 floors to a fuse box, I think I need an RCD before it makes its journey up, don't know the cable I...
    • militis
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    • before block box cable don't floor fuse fuse box going henley wire
    • Replies: 47
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  18. HappyHippyDad

    Floor socket on kitchen work top?

    Amongst other things I have been asked to fit a matching floor socket on a kitchen work top. The work top already has a floor socket well away from the sink and now the customer wants one approx 600mm away from the sink. Luckily there is another option of installing a wall mounted socket 400mm...
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    RCDS in hi rise flats

    Afternoon Chaps . Just a quickie lol. Can you verify that you do not need to install a RCD in a flat on the 12th floor of a hi rise block.. Thanks guys
  20. W

    Zone 1 floor light

    Hi there,just a query bout zone 1,I have floor lights to install in zone 1 around a bath and have the correctly ip rated led walkover lights.my query-is it ok to terminate the flex from the light to the mains cable in the 2" pipe I have installed in the ground?the regs specify about types of...

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