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I have recentley added a porch to my house it did not require building regs due to my original door stopping in place.
The electrician has...
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10 years ago I did an apprenticeship in aircraft engineering and got my level 3 nvq in...
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Would I be...
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I did a poll last year on exactly this.
Below I have pasted what I wrote in thread last time so there is a degree of similarity. We can then see...
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Just wondering if any of you know which RCBOs might fit this old GET board?
Cheers in advance!
The Apartment has been rewired and each one will connect to its own radial . Want something 'smart" with timers etc . never really looked into the...
I have a customer who has an 18" thermostat in their water tank which periodically requires resetting. I went to replace this but am unable to put...
Hi been a while, im writing a report and need to know if there's a specific term for the (?) front of a dist board, as opposed to the inside of a...
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I have a log cabin in my garden. An electrician ran an armoured cable from my consumer unit to the log cabin and this terminates on the...
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I'm looking for a couple of PIR floodlights to replace old halogen ones, probably around the 50W mark would provide sufficient lighting...
Looks very strange to me.
Obviously had a new fuse carrier fitted to it at one point but the two cables on the left go to the meter as normal...
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On a Eicr on agreed limations of iinpections what do you normally put
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I had what I thought was a licensed electrician extend electrics from an outlet to the opposite wall for lights in a wardrobe I'm having...
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I am looking into avenues into entering the trade, but I feel like all the information I can find online is incredibly convoluted and...
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So this is 1st floor maisonnette with concrete floor, 16mm2 single insulated tails coming from dual cut out on ground floor, through steel...
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