Home electrics books
The definitive, easy-to-follow guide to guarantee your electrical home improvements are as safe as they are successful. This fully updated, brand-new edition is packed with user-friendly photographs and offers the most up-to-date information ... [... more]
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Wiring for electric appliances in domestic premises
Wiring electric appliances in domestic premises. This page explains the domestic ring main, the various outlets available and high power wiring. The ordinary wall sockets around the house are normally connected to a ring circuit (also referred to ... [... more]
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Adding additional telephone sockets
Adding telephone sockets - How to add additional telephone sockets around your home so you can use a handset all over the place. It is important that telephone extension sockets and cabling are added in such a way that they do not affect the ... [... more]
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General do it yourself safety comments
Diydata do it yourself Safety guidelines. The home can be a very dangerous area to work - these guidelines are intended to provide basic safety principles for the diy'er. The home can be a highly dangerous area so every diy'er needs to take some ... [... more]
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Junction Boxes for joining cable
Junction boxes are used to connect cables to add socket, lighting points, extend circuits etc. They can also be used to make repairs where a section of cable needs to be replaced. Junction boxes can be found as either round or square boxes, round ... [... more]
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Electrical circuit protection explained
Electrical circuit protection explained - Fuses, Miniature Circuit Breakers, Residual Current Devices etc Fuses, MCB's, RCD's, and RCBO's are all devices used to protect users and equipment from fault conditions in an electrical circuit by ... [... more]
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Down Lights (or recessed lighting)
Fitting downlights will give more comfortable home lighting - here we explain them and how to fit them. What's the difference between mains and low voltage downlights. Down lights, mounted in the ceiling, are becoming increasingly popular for ... [... more]
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Smoke detectors and alarms
Smoke detectors and fire alarms are now considered essential for every home. Here we look at the different features offered. Properly installed smoke detectors/alarm will detect smoke from a fire and set off an alarm that will then warn of a fire ... [... more]
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On-line suppliers: DIY Suppliers
The suppliers listed on these pages offer on-line service and delivery, or have branches, UK wide. To have your business included in our directory, please see this page. DIY solar water heating kits from £1263 and a full installation from £276 [... more]
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Electric power cable colours in the UK
The colours of cables used in domestic installation in the UK changes in April 2004 - harmonised cables. Here we explain the changes and how they will be introduced. March 2004 saw amendment 2 to British Standard BS 7671 (Requirements for ... [... more]
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Using electrical equipment in the bathroom
Using electricity in the Bathroom or Shower Room - always an area of concern for safety, the zones of areas within bathrooms were changed with the 17th Edition of the IEE Regs to indicate what may be used and where. Using electrical equipment in ... [... more]
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