Electrical Service Archive
Hall lighting The most important thing about lighting hall and stairs is to ensure there’s enough light to be able to move around safely. High levels of general lighting are recommended and it’s particularly important that the lighting on the …
TELEPHONES Telephones transferred cost £10 in May; providing a completely new line about £80 (but it could be less than this if wiring from a previous installation can be re-used). Extension sockets Extension sockets can be fitted at the same …
Wiring new lights If you intend to make dramatic changes to an existing lighting system with lots of new lighting points and new switch positions, it’s probably better to install a whole new circuit than to try to adapt or …
Lighting Most houses are built with a minimum of thought given to the proper provision of lighting and, often rooms have just one central ceiling light fitting. A more sensible arrangement – for most rooms in the house – is …
Installing a spur Step-by-step From a socket Select a convenient socket and checkwhetherthissocket is on a ring, or onaspur. Whenyou have located a suitable socket on a ring, connecta length of 25mm 2 twin and earth and run itto the …
Power points Since the ring circuit can carry as many socket outlets and fixed appliances as you like, within the restraints of total possible loading, it’s usually possible to have sockets wherever you need them at relatively little extracost. And, …
Installing an electric … – heated towel rail – Take a spur from the ring circuit to a switched fused connection unit. Site the connection unit outside the bathroom where itwill be seen as you pass. Choose one with a …
Fitting an electric shower Step-by-step Step 1 Turn off the mains stop valve and drain Tee into the nearest convenient mains pipe. Plumb from the tee to the site of the shower. If the control valve is part of the …
ELECTRICITY IN THE BATHROOM Water and electricity do not mix, so there are strict regulations listed in the Wiring Regulations of the Institution of Electrical Engineers about the electrical appliances you can and cannot use in the bathroom or …
Installing a gas water heater There are two types of gas water- heater other than a central heating boiler: gas circulator This is the equivalent of the electric immersion heater and can be used either as the sole means of …
