Electrical · Homes
Wiring and automation for your home
A well-designed board makes a house safer and easier to live in: faults stay on one circuit, heavy loads have their own supply, and wet areas are protected. On top of that, automation can switch lights, the water heater and the gate for you, and keep essentials running in a power cut.
Try it
Circuits and scenes
Select a room to see which circuits feed it. Then switch to home automation and try the scenes.
Kitchen is fed by
- L1Lighting 1Living room and bedrooms
- L2Lighting 2Kitchen, bathroom and outside
- S1Sockets 1Living room and bedrooms
- S2Sockets 2Kitchen worktops
- C1CookerStove, on its own circuit
- W1Water heaterGeyser, on its own circuit
- G1Gate and outdoorGate motor and outdoor sockets
Household wiring
What a good installation includes
- Lighting and sockets split across circuits, so one fault does not leave the whole house dark
- Cooker and water heater on their own circuits, sized for their load
- Residual current protection for sockets, bathrooms and outdoor circuits
- Cable sizes worked out for load and voltage drop (try the cable calculator)
- Earthing and bonding installed and tested
- A labelled board and a circuit chart left in the house
Cable sizes come from the load and the run length. Try the cable sizing calculator.
Building, rewiring or automating a home?
Send us the plan or describe the house, and we will propose the circuits and the automation that fits.
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