Ok so the scenario is there is an old MICC or pyro 1.5mm 2 core cable supplying the garage run underground on a 16A circuit breaker that is RCD protected.
In the garage there is a water pipe fed from the house, at the house it is bonded using 10mm, at the garage bonded with 6mm. I think the...
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I moved into a quite old house with old storage heaters.
Hoping that I`ve googled it right , it shall be unidare storage heaters ums 718 93.
Also attached its photos.
Apart from that I have Economy7 meter with day rate ( rate1 ) and night rate ( rate2)
As I am very new to storage...
I've got an old furnace fan I kept the last time mine was replaced. I'd like to use it for various purposes. It has a red, black, yellow and orange wire. Also a purple going to/from I'm guessing a capacitor on the side and a green ground wire. Can I wire it up to be used on 110v ? I have...
New switch has an earth terminal in the back box and COM, 1 WAY, 2 WAY on the switch. My power in and pond pump have live, neutral and earth wires, what goes where please?
I carry out some maintenance in a local cinema which is now 100 years old and every time I go into the projection room I look at this old decommissioned rectifier and realise how easy things are for use nowadays with all our tools and modern electronics.
I'm guessing this rectifier was built to...
Apologies for using this forum once only, but grandson likes to explore and these industrial cables are the other side of my fence and run further in to their garden, slightly hidden,, and I worry about his safety if he pushes through the fence (he's a little rascal)
Thank you
Hello all! So as the title says and as the pictures will demonstrate, I have received a very old drill press. However, the cord was absolutely destroyed and needed to be replaced. I had no experience doing this, but followed along with YT videos and was able to replace all the wires, and added a...
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I have a question. When you want to do an electrical work on a switchboard and you realize that some cables are which are not double insulated are bare out of enclosure, do you have to fix it ? Does it consider a fault for the last electrician working on the switchboard even if it wasn't your...
We have an old 1930's fuse box with integral master switch which we are replacing with a CU. Incidentally the house extension has its own circuits and CU. Both circuits are supplied through one one meter and supplier master circuit breaker.
There is a (heavy) splitter box for the two...
Originally one all the bedrooms had plaster ceilings. In one bedroom someone added firing strips and installed acoustic ceiling tiles on top. The ceiling tiles were removed during renovation and then a licensed electrical contractor ran Romex along the firing strips to the center light and...
I'm swapping out some old 3036 rewireables for some 60898 plug in Mcbs for an old boy foc, do you have to change the bases as well or is it just pull out push in?
Seems simple but I've never swapped them before and I want make sure I have all the bits
I'm fitting some new light fixtures in my livingroom, problem is the wires coming out of the ceiling don't match the simple live, neutral and earth. I'll stick a picture up to explain but basically I have a switched live, permanent live and what I suspect is a neutral, I have the wiring of how...
I am in the process of having some renovations done and as a small part of this I am planning to replace a set of outside wall lights. I asked my electrician what the voltage was and was told 240v so I bought a set of weatherproof 240v LED lights. For various reasons I have had to change...
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Glad to have found a good forum to ask my electric related questions.
So my property had old vir cables nearly throughout and ceramic fuses. The company doing the rewire is 3/4 of the way through, but I have a few questions.
1. Are the original light switch back boxes still under current...
Still on a learning curve and need a bit of advice.
I had a chip fryer fail today passed the earth but then failed insulation on 500v setting class 1.
It’s only 2 weeks old. Fryer next to it passed fine. Then a pizza oven had the same problem!!
Any advice appreciated... well most of it ?
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