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Been using a portable spot light for when I'm working in dark spaces or at night and never really paid attention to the plug used on it. It was given to me by my dad. Looked at the back of it and noticed "Empire Made" with "Unbreakable Rubber" written on the front. I'm guessing it's '50s to...

Greetings all, I've just temporarily installed a nest Outdoor Camera and fed the 25ft of cable through the windows until next week. I then intend to fit an external socket and take the power from that via the 3 pin plug. My idea is to do the following: Convert the unused phone socket next to...

Regards: Elliott.

Hi all, I have recently replaced one of the sockets in my house and for some reason it is tripping the RCD on the consumer unit. Can anyone help please? A little background info, Following some recent works on the house I have had to replace an electrical cable to a socket as the original...

Used MK SG and DG sockets for years, but folks are now telling me there are other that are much easier to wire up while being same or better quality for every day use. Whats the opinion on other?

On a wall side where a 42inch TV screen will sit on a table there is only the one double wall electrical socket, yes, you'd think there'd be more than this on that wall but there isn't, and it has to go on that side, but anyway here's the question lol. As I'll be having a TV, router, TV Box...

Looking for some advice with a randomly tripping RCD. Last week I got up to find the electrics had tripped during the night. No individual switch had tripped, just the main one. By process of elimination I narrowed it down to the upstairs sockets. I left them off and when I returned from work...

See: https://clockwork.property/help-advice/change-fuse-plug-socket/ :ROFLMAO: Poor advice as best.

Hi. Moving into a house with only one socket in each of the three bedrooms. I need to have proper look once moved in but I know the consumer unit is new and believe wiring to be in good condition at time of install in recent years. Can anyone advise me if I can change single socket to double...

Hi - we have recently moved to Italy and brought most of our UK appliances with us. After blowing a couple of UK-European adapters on the washing machine I realised they were most likely rated too low at 7.5A - on the second occasion one of the pins even managed to fuse itself to the connection...

Hi All, I have a socket in the bathroom which has gone dead. I can tell this is not on a ring main as it only has one set of wires connected to it, could anyone tell me how I would find out whether it is connected directly to the CU or it is a spur off another socket. I was going to open all...

I can see similar threads have been posted previously (although I already have an external power supply) but I'm wondering if there are technicalities of doing the following:- There is already a double external socket wired to the back of the house (new build). I spoke to the gardener who...

Hello. I want to put in a small, LED up/down light by the back door. I know how to do this and I have the equipment to do it, but I've not been able to find a clear answer on which type of cable I should use. My current idea of the set up is this.... - There is a socket near the back door...

So my Auntie has moved into her new bungalow and had her fibre broadband (BT Infinity) set up the other day. Unless I am mistaken, below looks like an extension telephone socket. Can anyone confirm that this is an extension socket? So far, this is the only telephone socket she can find. Also...

I want to replace a double unswitched electric socket with a switched socket. I removed the old one and found the ring main to be extremely thick braided cable and the socket had 2 connections for live, neutral and earth which meant the cables had a snug fit. The new socket has only has single...

Hi all. I've just installed a burglar alarm in the understairs cupboard. The manual calls for a 2A FCU to supply the power. Next to the panel, there's a single socket which appears to be a spur from another socket on the ring main as only one surface mounted cable goes into it. The single...

I am planning to do the wiring for my new kitchen extension. All my power sockets will be low level and run of a new ring circuit. Is it best for the cables to run: a) From the socket downwards, under the floor insulation on to the next socket, b) Out of the socket horizontally, behind the...

Hello to you all and Merry Christmas first of all. I'm hoping the Christmas days after-celebrations boredom will provide me with some answers :D. Before I start I appreciate everyone will advise me to call an electrician and have it done by them. This is what I might do unless it's a very...

Hello, I have just moved into a house and in our living room there seems to only be 2 single sockets. Ones fine but the other is near where out home entertainment system (TV, audio, lights etc.) Will go. We started with extension cables but before we knew it, we had extension on extension which...

Just wondering what the regulations were for how close a socket could be to a sink in the year 2000. The photo below is from a kitchen at a commercial office building that was likley built around the year 2000, the edge of the socket is only about 100mm-150mm away from the edge of the sink ...