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Please forgive my elementary question but I'm quite young and learning new DIY stuff every day. Found a plug in electric mower being given away free - think it's just got a faulty power cable. Tested cable resistance with multimeter by putting red probe on bottom left plug prong and black...

can someone please offer some advice... i'm trying to run an alarm cable from the loft down to the ground floor. I've found there is an EMPTY cavity inside our house which i can drop the cable down but my question is how do i locate the cable and then pull it through on the ground floor. the...

Hi, I am adding a light into the loft and luckily for me, the existing upstairs switch is on the opposite side of the airing cupboard wall. For ease, I am thinking of running the switch cable (1mm) down through the airing cupboard ceiling and through the wall into the switch box. Are there any...

If cable is installed perp to joists, threaded thru a series on in--line holes in joists, does the cable need support additional to and between the joists? The gaps between are 320-350 Not that it seems to have made much difference to the original sparks that wired the house, there's a 1.5mm...

A while ago I put a wall light up on the back of my house next to the back door. I believe I did this safely and this was my method: I took a spur from a nearby socket, chased the new 2.5mm T&E wire in the existing conduit (straight up from the socket), took this along the wall (at 100mm away...

Hi I need to move a virgin media cable about 2m across the wall, luckily the direction where the cable length allows! The current hole is to small to pull the cable out with the end on, so I’ll need to cut the cable, drill another hole, insert through and crimp a new end on. Does anyone know...

With the 18th edition (don't have a copy yet), what applications can you still use conventional plastic cable clips? Do you have to use metallic cable clips holding cables on to joists in the void between ceilings and the floor above, and how about attic spaces? Regards: Elliott.

I'm looking to make an extension lead of over 60m to run a well pump of of the generator after storms or other power cuts. It needs to run the pump which is rated at 2400 Watts. What diameter cable is needed for this to allow for power loss over distance.

Hi all, I was looking for a recommendation on wire and power supply and controller for the rgb smd light strips. I have in total just shy on 22m of what I believe is 5050 60led/m. I got them off ebay a good while ago and it came with 3 power adapters rated at 12v 5A (for 30M kit). Hence 1...

Hi, a friend if mine has bought a house, which has 8 core alarm cable run from (1) front of the house, (2) back of the house and (3) garden shed to the electrical cupboard underneath the stairs. The cables are just rolled up without any connectors/connections and it seems like it has never been...

Hi Guys, I am going to be installing a CCTV system on my property this week, though i have been skeptical on how to hide the wiring on the external brick wall. I do not want to recess the wires into to wall or through the cavity. I would just prefer to cable clip the wires on the brick wall...

Hi Guys, I am going to be installing a CCTV system on my property this week, though i have been skeptical on how to hide the wiring on the external brick wall. I do not want to recess the wires into to wall or through the cavity. I would just prefer to cable clip the wires on the brick wall...

Hi Guys, I am going to be installing a CCTV system on my property this week, though i have been skeptical on how to hide the wiring on the external brick wall. I do not want to recess the wires into to wall or through the cavity. I would just prefer to cable clip the wires on the brick wall...

I'm hoping to light a driveway inexpensively using little LED lighting 25 mm lamps. I'm thinking that it should be low voltage for safety and cost but how do I calculate the size or rating of the transformer? Is there a simple calculation I can use? Also what type of cable should I use? I'm...

We've just bought a property and whilst renovating, we've realised that there is no aerial socket in the lounge. There are Sky cables that have been left by the previous owners, however we use BT for our TV and without an aerial connection we can only view the internet provided channels such as...

Hi folks, our existing old-skool Creda electric cooker is on its last legs, and just so happens that my brother was getting rid of his nearly new Belling cooker as he's having a new kitchen. The existing cable connecting to the Creda is 6mm (says so on the outer sheath). The new Belling oven...

Hi, I am building a summerhouse and want to lay an underground cable to the main house for electrics (it's only about 10m away). I will get an electrician to link it up to the house's electrics, but was wondering what sort of cable I will need. It will need to power a maximum of 3KW of...

I've run some cables up thru some back boxes for 240v sockets and was just putting some pvc channel over the cables (pairs - it's a ring) when I thought that it might be easier to get the grey outer off before the cables are fixed in place behind the pvc channel and up thru the grommets. Is it...

Hi I've run some cables through a wooden joist but quite a small hole so the cables are very close to each other at this point. Is this going to give me temperature issues when I want them connecting upto a shower, the water tank and an oven? The oven is single electric oven and came with a...

We have a contractor in work carrying out PAT work. He has failed an appliance which, whilst not strictly being portable in that you can carry it around, is connected via a BS1363 plug. His reason is that the 2.5mm 3 core cable is too large for this plug and the maximum diameter should be 1.5mm...