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No. Forget about those. Choices are gas or a heatpump.

Any readings of DC resistance on an AC motor are irrelevant. If it's not working, then a failed capacitor is far more likely than any problem with the windings.

That may work, although good luck when it causes problems with LED lighting. In terms of 2 way switching, that is done by having more than one of them, and configuring the switching options via whatever app it has.

Not necessarily. Depends on what consumer unit you have got, and if parts exist for it.

The proposed amendment is available to view here: https://standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com/projects/2024-01247#/section Login required, but you can register for free. Not much too see, less than half a page of text and most of that is headings and titles.

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The draft of AMD3 will be available for public comment from tomorrow until 5 June. Will be published later this year.

They will be 25mm 16mm are only suitable for light switches. No socket outlet will fit that. 25mm is the cheapo default option used by the sling it and wing it brigade. 35mm is what you would expect from a quality new installation so that USB sockets and flat plate accessories can be installed.

For most cars it's measured in days rather than hours.

Then that is the only option. The instructions for the electric shower will require that an RCD is installed. Electric showers require their own circuit. New circuits require RCDs New circuits and installing showers are notifiable work.

Contact your energy supplier and ask. If BG don't know, then move to another supplier that does. Octopus use either GMT or BST, so for the 4 hours overnight for EV charging it's always 00:30 to 04:30. 4 hours most of the year, but 3 hours on the last Sunday in March and 5 hours on the last...

A fault elsewhere in the installation will cause a voltage on anything connected to the MET including what's in the bathroom.

MCBs used for circuits with 0.4s disconnection time. An RCCB will disconnect in 0.04s, 10x faster. Some circuits can have up to 5s disconnection time.

Modern pipes are usually plastic, but plenty of old ones were metal (such as lead or copper) into a cast iron stack. Any line-earth fault will cause a voltage on the main earth terminal and all conductive parts connected to it. The voltage only exists until the fault is cleared by a fuse or...

Metal waste pipe to the bath, which is at earth potential. Not bonded but the mixer shower above the bath is. Some fault occurs elsewhere in the installation which causes a voltage of 150 volts to appear on the bonded metalwork of the shower. The person standing in the bath with their foot on...