wiring

Hello all, So this is my first post and I need some advice as I think this is probably an obvious mistake I'm making so I'm hoping someone should be able to help! I'll try and keep this as simple as possible and I've attached a few photos for clarity! In short this is the situation. 1) I'm...

Hi moved into Partner's old 1950's flat recently and trying to make sense of the telephony setup. Broadband is slow (10Mb when should be 30Mb) and wiring hasn't been touched for a long time. Long term IT specialist - but used to ethernet - not this stuff. Any help appreciated - see images *...

Hi all I was wondering if anyone can help, I've been battling with my Videx entryphome system for months now and have some of it working, I'm a joiner by trade and not very close up on electrics as you can probably tell. It was not a like for like handset replacement so I improvised but the...

Hi Hoping for a clue. All 5 Down lights in hall stopped working suddenly after fine for 8 yrs. As far as I can see it’s 1 transformer (35-105w 240 to 11.5v) with 5 20w halogens in parallel (daisy chain?) I assumed transformer issue so replaced like for like no joy. When I switch light...

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...

Hi all, Replacing kitchen light but not sure of the wiring. 2 light switches in kitchen, old light was a strip light. 3 live, 3 neutral and 3 earth. There is nothing indicating that 1 of the neutrals is a live. Please help lol Many thanks Lee

Hi i’ve had a new electric shower installed today. By an electrician through my landlord. He replaced the old one with a Triton T80 Z. I’ve just noticed an exposed green wire, underneath the casing. Next to the water pipe. Just worried that it’s not safe. Cheers for any help with this.

Hi all, I'm wondering if someone can validate my wiring plan for my Nest + Vaillant Ecotec Plus boiler. It's an early Gen1 nest so only does the heating. The boiler is new and the installers were confused by the older Nest so at the moment the Heating and Hot Water both have to be on all the...

Hi, I'm trying to set up a Texecom Odysey X3 siren on a DSC PowerSeries PC1832 panel. I can't work out the wiring from the panel to the siren. The DSC has just two bell outputs: Bell + Bell - The Texcom Odysey X3 has +12v Bell Tmp 0v Strb Please can someone explain how I should connect these...

Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help identify the wires under the combi boiler. There was once hive installed however the previous owner has taken the reciever and install a standard danfoss thermostat. This is how it has been left. 15543993042235156073894454745445 by Matt Bezant posted 4 Apr...

Evening all I have the Hive thermostat on order and should be here tomorrow. I currently have a Salus RT300RF wireless thermostat which i will be replacing. The boiler is a viessmann vitopend 100 combi The current wiring on the Salus receiver is:- COM - Grey wire and brown loop NO - Black...

Hi all, After some great advice on here I have finally sorted out 10 ceiling speakers around the ground floor of my house using a spare Onkyo 5.1 surround sound system I had. I invested a lot of time in making MDF boxes for the speakers in the ceiling and was careful to select speakers and wire...

Hi all, new to this forum, but thought I'd join up, hoping for some assistance. I've just installed a Texecom prem 48. All working ok i think. All with EOL wiring. One 8xp, 16 zones being used. 2 contacts share a zone on each garage door. Other than that everything has independent zones, 7...

Hi, I'm setting up a two magnetic contacts on one wired zone with a junction box and a FSL (and yes, I probably should have settled for a simpler system as I have no experience in alarm systems). Anyhow I managed to make the contact chime when commissioning. After that I played around with...

Hi. I'm adding an extra 170mm of insulation to my loft but I have electrical wiring running around. It's basic wiring for the lights in the bedrooms and bathroom but I wondered if they will be alright covered up? They are covered in places by 100mm (which is the reason I'm topping up as it's...

I’m having a pair of new ovens installed during a kitchen refit and I’m a little confused about how my electrician has decided to connect them. The ovens are Neff B57CS24N0Bs and are rated at 3.45kW. They came with cables naked 16A/230V and the instruction require them to be hardwired to an...

I have an unbranded WiFi thermostat labelled rn004. I'm replacing a Danfoss rmt 230. 1) The new stat has 2 thin white wires coming from the side, around 5cm long each. Are these for extra temperature readings from floor etc? If so, how do I not use\bypass them so I can just use internal...

I am replacing my old RF thermostat (Tower RF-205) with a Heatmiser RF-Switch but just wanted confirmation on the wiring. The old thermostat has 4 terminals. Live and Neutral I'm happy with but for some reason they have labelled the other two Out 1 and Out 2. The new receiver has a ton of...

Rolling up sleeves and installing the Nest thermostat we treated ourselves to for Christmas. Attached some screenshots of previous and new wiring to check before switching it back on. Anyone able to cast an eagle eye over these to make sure looks right? Black wire is boiler and White wire is...

Hi... And happy New year We're renovating an old property and I want to reinstate the phone socket, which had to be moved due to walls being pulled apart There's a junction box where the phone line comes into the house. First pic below. The phone line then went into what I think is a BT NT5...