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by RBrad
Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:54 pm
Forum: Electrics Forum
Topic: Maybe a dumb earth question, but...
Replies: 2
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Thanks for that Blakey, I was worried it may mean a rewire is due but cannot do that at the moment. On thursday a friend I mentioned this put me on to a retired electrician who said it was not uncommon years ago for individual lighting spurs to not have an earth when the main junction box(in the lof...
by RBrad
Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:35 pm
Forum: Electrics Forum
Topic: Maybe a dumb earth question, but...
Replies: 2
Views: 3112

Maybe a dumb earth question, but...

...what 'counts' as earth? I have just bought a new light to fit in a bedroom. It needs an earth and the old system (1960s ish) has only red/black wire. I can get to this wire in the loft but not back to its rose which is under flooring. I think I could, therefore, just run an independant wire as ea...
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