electrics

Hi guys Trying to wire up outside lights. I have a 2 way switch operated from house and garden. The garden switch is currently 1 gang I’m wanting tk add additional lights on a different switch. So the outside switch currently has 4 wires Earth Brown to comm Black to L1 Grey to L2 Changing to a...

I will try and keep this as brief as possible :) I have seen helpful/ similar debates on these forums re EIC/ EICR etc so have joined up in the hope that somebody will help! Grateful for any thoughts.... We are in the final stages of conveyancing on our house purchase and have come against...

Hi. I have an older style fuse box (not wired). 6 fuses. 1 downstairs sockets (2 room, includes kitchen) 1 upstairs sockets. 1 downstairs lights. 1 upstairs lights. 1 cooker fuse. 1 combi heating/hot water fuse. The fuse box fuses for sockets and cooker are all 30amp. Had fridge freezer, washer...

Hi all, I’m a sparks and I’m struggling to get my head around wiring up a single zone wet UFH to a Worcester Heatslave Oil Combi Boiler. The boiler has a built in programmer to do the hot water and rads and rads currently have no room stat so it’s all controlled directly at the boiler and the...

Hi, I just want to confirm everything before wiring my van conversion. I have a portable power station that I am going to be wiring a fuse box to. I spoke to someone on here before about it and they gave me some info but a few things have changed so just want to confirm everything will be ok. 4...

Hi, I am converting a van into a camper and attached the solar panels to the roof yesterday. When I first connected it to my portable power station the input went up however when I checked today, the input was at zero and the battery was at zero and died shortly after. I only have an AC voltage...

Hi, Wondering if anyone could help. I am about to replace my ceiling lights with the modern led ceiling lights but noticed it only has two red wires coming out. The old ceiling rose has few sets of wires connected to the terminal block. Which wires do I need replace? See photos attached. Any...

Question about connecting microwave

Hi, currently converting a van to a campervan. I have never done electrics so decided to buy a portable battery to simplify things. I now need to power more things in my van than I thought when I bought the battery so don’t have enough room to plug everything in on my battery. My plan is to wire...

Hi, wondering if anyone could help me please. I've installed a new consumer unit in my house. Upstairs lighting, sockets and central heating all working no problems protected by RCD. Downstairs lights, utility ring main, lounge ring main and cooker all work fine until 2nd RCD installed to...

Hi, I need some advice please! I want to move my kitchen around and would like the dishwasher and washing machine on the other side of the room. The issue is that on that side of the room there is only 1 spur switch/trailing socket. Is it safe to run both dishwasher and washing machine off...

Hello, I am currently building my garden office, converting it from a bare brick wall with a concrete slab. I am doing the full renovation, including stud walls with rockwool insulation, plasterboard, tape and jointing etc. Im currently doing my stud wall but after i need to sort the...

Hi all, forgive me for asking what's probably a very silly question but I'm going to replace a light switch and just wanted to learn what each wire was doing first. The switch is powering a single ceiling lamp. I thought I'd better take a photo of its current set up, and copy that exactly with...

I've had the house rewired recently so know all the circuits are as they're supposed to. I'm now at the stage of installing downlights in the kitchen. I've bought 11 double insulated LED downlights...

Hello I’ve recently had all the internal walls (paramount partition board ) upstairs taken out and replaced with 90mm studwork. I’ve just put 12.5mm plasterboard on and was wondering if it’s better to cut the holes for the sockets before or after it’s plastered? Thanks

I'm attempting to hang a large mirror on an internal wall in the hallway. There was a mirror there previously but the old fixings are in the wrong place. I checked the old holes and it appears to be plasterboard with a small cavity and block behind it. Tapping the wall reveals hollow and hard...

So I had a room in my house with no plug sockets, It was a very old room and I wanted to use it as a small office. It needed plugs, 3 doubles to be precise. The room was bare brick so I plaster boarded on dabs. To install the plugs I created a spur off a plug on a ring main in the room...

Hi all, Happy New Year! I'm currently looking at buying my first property and visited a ground-floor maisonette over the weekend that I feel has a lot of potential. The flat was recently refurbished and looked perfectly fine in the advertising photos. However, when I arrived for the viewing, I...

Hello! My partner bought a BOT 313Wifi thermostat for our volkera boiler (Installed 2016) assuming I'd have no trouble wiring it up! Trouble is, I'm not certain and don't want to cause any short circuiting! Our existing thermostat is bluetooth via the wire below. Can anyone advise on which...

Hi there, We've recently had an electrician add an extra socket and extend an aerial cable so the cables for the TV and other items are not trailing across the floor on show. He managed to do this via making a number of smaller holes and fishing the cable though those holes. As opposed to...