One of the hardest tasks electricians in domestic jobs can have is to provide extra wiring down the inside of walls once the walls are built. If you are doing any building try to visualise exactly what cabling you requyire now and in the future and have it installed prior to the brick walls being rendered or the wall boards being installed. You shoudl consider telephone cabling, Tv aerial cabling, Cable TV provision, intercom,normal power cables and (sometimes forgotten) doorbell wiring. In particular if you know that you will want extra light switches put in down the track. Far better to have the wiring installed now rather than later and left sealed off in the wall cavity pending addition of a switch. You will be surprised as to how cheap it is just to add extra cables at time of construction. It is true that there are various electronic devices that can overcome these problems but for a domestic situation it is still cheaper to preprovide cable.
If you are intending to install lights in older style houses you should be aware of the rule relating to the earthing of light fittings. In older style houses (pre 19975) it was not mandatory to provide an earthing conductor for ceiling light points provided they were high up. It is now nmandatory for all metallic light fittings to be earthed irresreocetive of where they are mounted. If you are thinking about swapping 1 metallic light for another and you suspect that the earth wire (green one) is not present atall You should get an electrical contractor can advise you as the costs associated with having the extra earth wire put in and the pros and cons of using double insulated light fittings.
Removing rewireable fuses from their sockets can be a shocking experience particularly if the fuse mounts are old or damp. For this reason , if you must remove fuses use a rubber glove. Remember that when a fuse is removed the socket is exposed and live and can be dangerous (particularly to little fingers) If you are intending to leave the fuse out for some time remember remove the fuse wire from the fuse and insert the "dead fuse " back into the socket. Better still, whilst you're in the mood to remove fuses why not go the whole hog and remove all your fuses and replace them with circuit breakers (either plug in or wire in).You can then throw all your old bits of fuse wire away.You don't need to be a licensed person to change your fuses to plug in breakers however you should be aware that not all fuse mounts can take plug in breakers and that whilst an 8 Amp rewireable fuse should be replaced by an 8 amp breaker it is legal to replace a 16Amp rewireable fuse with a 20 Amp breaker.(You can have problems if you replace a 16A fuse with a 16A breaker ).
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