wiring

Hi all . Thinking of getting some 13a sockets in the garage/shed and i am going for SWA cable (some cable might have to go underground/under lawn. so , going for 2.5mm 3 core SWA for the sockets . On the screwfix site though the cores of the cable are coloured Brown, Black, Grey. (I am in rep...

Hi, Just wondering how professional alarm companies hide the cable, I’ve seen it before where it’s against the wall but not inside the wall but still looks not too bad. All cable in my house is hidden but I’d like to add some additional cable going up and around the perimeter of bathroom and...

I've moved into a house with very basic central heating controls (one of those timer dials from the 80s) and non traditional piping set up which is causing some complications and I want to do the minimum work at the minute to modernise it. The way they've piped up the house the boiler sits...

during the reno i have a switch which i want to replace but the one my son have purchased has l21 and l22 terminal with a common. The old one have common L1 and L2. could i just have a confirmation of where to connect where. the switch will be metal so would it need the box connected to the...

Hi all, I've been trying to sort out wiring for extractor hood, but isn't working currently. I've put a double pole isolation switch spurred onto a double socket in the ring (shown below), which connects the twin cable that goes to the hood. When on there's power in the double socket, but the...

Hi, I'm replacing an existing Honeywell receiver (R4H91) on my combi boiler with a Hive (single channel) and am confused with the existing wiring in the Honeywell. See images below, 1st image of the current receiver wiring, 2nd image of the wider system wiring in case this is helpful. I'm a...

Hello, after a recent Hive success on DIYNOT, I decided to attempt my relatives hive installation. They have an existing EPH Controls R27-HW 1 zone timer and thermostats on an S plan system. The old timer has wires for L, N Heating on, Hot Water on Thus it is not a simple change as the old...

Hi, I am currently in the final stages of having the driveway laid. I want outdoor lighting and an electric gate in the future, and would like to run the wire from the house to the end of the drive now. Does the armoured cable have to be run underground? If so, what's the minimum depth. Or, is...

Hello everyone, I have a Honeywell thermostat that I would like to decommission as we have a tado smart heating system. I had in my notes that the model is a T6360B1028 but looking at the user manual for the T6360, the wiring diagram doesn’t quite match up. In order for the tado system to...

Hi all, Nice to meet you. I’ve just bought a hive thermostat. Followed along and wired it in, it connects and when I press heat it turns the receiver green… the bad part is it doesn’t actually switch the boiler on? It’s a vogue max combi 26. It used to have a salus open therm which I have...

Good evening, I've just bought a Hive system, consisting of a Nano Hub 2 , a dual channel receiver and a thermostat. I have an oil fired boiler, Vortex Kitchen, a hot water cylinder and dual motorised valves. There is a HIneytwell thermostat too. My question is, the back plate seems to be...

One of my mothers storage heaters stopped working earlier this year and now I've been hassled to get it fixed. All the other heaters are working fine apart from the one in the bedroom. Looking at the heaters there is a switched fused spur and a switch with flex outlet next to each one. I checked...

I'm in the process of insulating a room located above the garage in my house. It has 3 solid brick external walls so gets very cold - I'm installing insulated plasterboard with 50mm PIR (celotex) bonded to 12.5mm board. My plan is to fix the boards using Soudal PB adhesive foam, direct to the...

I’m planning to feed an electrical cable (to connect to a led mirror) through an exterior wall, but there’s insulation and a plastic vapor barrier directly behind the plasterboard. There seems to be enough room to run the cable, but I’m concerned about having the insulation and vapor barrier...

Would anybody be kind enough to please explain to me which wires on my current wireless receiver connected to the boiler go in which section of the Google nest wireless receiver? I would be eternally grateful I’ve included an image of my current one, and an image of the Google nest (current...

Hi, We have a Honeywell St9100C timer fitted which controls the towel rail element of our heating system so there is no thermostat. However despite repeated attempts to program it, the towel rails are just on whenever they fancy it! The Honeywell is fitted through our underfloor heating...

Hi, my old thermostat/controller (DY-107) only has 3 wires as per the image (which is the lower left in the diagram), Live, Neutral and L1 (black) and is for electric underfloor heating. The new replacement is a Heatmiser neostat-e v2 and i'm assuming it should take those 3 wires as L (Live)...

So like many people of my generation, I was taught how to wire a typic UK plug falling under the BS1363 standard when I was younger and have seen so many people wire/re-wire the typical UK plugs over the years, yet very few if any use ferules with the wire cores, whether it be the uninsulated or...

Hi Everyone, Long time lurker, first time poster. I'm trying to upgrade the heating controls for my mother's boiler, it's probably 30 years old and needs upgrading itself but that is a later task. At the moment I'm upgrading it from a timed hot water and heating, to thermostatically...

Hi, looking to put a night lamp on this wall using existing wiring from the switch. The cables coming out the wall are blue, red and one unidentified wire which has just been attached to under a screw on the bulb casing. Couple questions: 1. Is the unidentified cable likely to be the neutral...