hi guys and girls,
I'm new to the forum,
recently left the army and did a short electrical course. (doesn't make me an expert by no means)
my problem is this:
my sister has just bought a house and as a favour I said I would sort her electrics. The house is old (bout 1930s) had old style MCBs...
Lee_Dicks
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keeps
problem
rcd
sockets
tomorrow
tripping
upstairs
Hi,
Was fitting a new light in bedroom today. Have two earth wires, two live (red) and two black in the ceiling rose. Connected it up and the switch is not working, the light is on all the time and will not switch on/off. Have put the two reds in loop and light is in connected in the rose with...
Hi All
New to this forum.
Im currently doing a Electrical condition report on a domestic house that I have just fitted a dual RCD board and Equipotential bonding in
The Neutral on the landing light is taken from the downstairs circuit so is a C2 on the report
Its not practical to rewire this...
I was wiring central heating in energized ( supposidly tested ) house, with only the upstairs lights breaker turned on i was getting 240v N - E on the heating supply ( seperate 16 v supply ). Dug a little deeper and had crossed neutrals / lives on the upstairs/downstairs lighting. sorted that...
Hi everyone,
I'm looking to put two power sockets in my garden shed. The shed is about 10 meters from the house, about 20-25 meters the way I plan to route the cabling.
I've researched this and have come up with the conclusion show in the pic which I hope is mostly correct.
I plan on using...
alan0259
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circuit
don't
existing
socket
sockets
swa
things
upstairs
Hi, I'm in the process improving our recently bought 1930's 3 bed house. The loft has been completely cleared out to spray woodworm treatment, but before the insulation back goes down, I thought this would be a good time to rewire the upstairs lighting. I should point out I'm only a DIY'er...
domestic house call out today- upstairs lights not working , loop in system looks like bathroom lights is first on circuit , got power leaving breaker but no power anywhere upstairs ,no power at any light or switch.
although the stupid volt pen was flashing on initial contact of some of the...
Looking at a heating system tonight, grasslin 24 hr time clock and 3 Zone valves ,down stairs heating , upstairs heating and hot water.
Upstairs heating and hot water not firing boiler. But valves are lit up. So when I turn upstairs heating stat down the valve light goes out but you don't...
Hi, In your opinon is 20amp more than suitable for an 3 bedroom upstairs circuit, cant think why they really need to be 32amp maybe if you started plugging in 3kw heaters :)
thanks
Saw an installation today where an upstairs consumer unit is run off a 40A MCB in the main board.
Two problems
1) Both boards are protected by 30 ma RCD so no discrimination.
2) There's a 40 A MCB in the second board as a dedicated shower feed - the installers have put a 10.8 kw shower on...
Right then this has now happened to me twice.. and ive not a clue whats going on so if anyone has had the same issue it would be good to see what causing it.
Anyways SO i have a 2G2W light switch upstairs and a 2G2W light switch downstairs.. I Wire them both correct.. Up have Brown from 3-core...
I have a plumber mate who is installing an (3Kw I believe) Immersion heater into a property and needs it wired in. I know in an ideal world, i new circuit from the CU, 16A CB and 20A FCU, as we all know the world is not always ideal and getting a new circuit from the CU to the airing cupboard...
Been to look at lights today that was not working properly. After investigation I think the problem is in a switch which seems to have a feed from the downstairs lights and what I thought would be the loop to the next lighseems to have a voltage from the upstairs lights. When I put my tester...
Jjm
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lights
neutral
readings
strange
thought
upstairs
voltage
volts
Hi Chaps
Thanx to everyone who sorted me out with the last query . on to the next.
I have been asked to install a second two way switch in friends hall way. The existing switch is just inside the front door and controls the hall and landing lights as normal , what she would like is a secondary...
Young Dave
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downstairs
extra
landing
light
lights
switch
two way
upstairs
I am a fairly new electrician and recently received a call out from an elderly client who says that on 6 occassions over the last 5 years there have been numerous water leaks transpiring from the flat above hers. She says on at least 3 occassions the water was pouring out from the spotlight...
Hi guys got another quick question.
I am going to change 2 fuseboxes in a house tomorrow. Now the main one under the stairs does all the ground floor sockets, kitchen etc and i will fit a 17th edition dual rcd board.
The second fusebox is upstairs fed from a henley block under the stairs and...
Maybe a bit of a silly question but im interested in what you would do......
2 gang switch situated in the hallway at the bottom of the stairs, 1x switch operates light in downstairs hallway off the downstairs lighting circuit and the other switch is the 2 way switch operating the upstairs...
Hello
I live alone, so I have no help here with electric issues and would really appreciate some advice.
I have no working lights upstairs at the moment, and don't know what to do.....
I switched on an upstairs light this afternoon, and the bulb blew and the rest of the lights in the fitting...
Tara100
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again
circuit
electrical work
help!
lighting
lights
please
tripped
upstairs
won't
working
Hello guys had a lady on the phone who said she has upstairs and downstairs ring mains, she can plug the 1400 watt vac in upstairs and its fine but she cant plug it in downstairs as it trips the RCD protecting it I am not sure never come across this?
hutch6447
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downstairs
leakage
other
probably
rcd
rcd tripping
tripping
upstairs
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