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    Looking For Advice - becoming An Electrician With A Criminal Record

    All sorts of characters in the electrical industry. I started work on a firm that considered it a requirement to have a bit of an interesting background. Don't be put off, just as others said be honest when its relevant.
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    Looking For Step-Up???

    Also screwfix £25
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    electrician just come out of time and not best electrician and need experience

    Home | Electrotechnical Certification Scheme - https://www.ecscard.org.uk make sure you get one of these then ring up an agency. Work as an "improver" if you're looking to get your confidence up. For this you'll need at least a trainee electricians card. Check the requirements in the site, also...
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    As Installed drawings

    Autocad LT is reasonable for 2D drawings. You can pay for just a month at a time for less than £40. Trial is free for 30 days so maybe enough for your project?
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    Rcbo paranoia

    Thinking about it you're right. It normally wouldn't be a big deal but there are 44, though still not the main issue. It's a board with all the earth terminals at the top and the guy before me glanded all the armoureds to the top instead of mounting a trunking on first making the earths a pain...
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    Rcbo paranoia

    Quite sensible really. I talked to schneider, they want you to disconnect every rcbo entirelt to do insulation resistance tests. With a fully populated board you'd have to disconnect all of them to do an IR. This is madness right? If you were to disconnect line and neutral why would it be...
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    Rcbo paranoia

    Rcbos haven't caused me much concern before but I'm wiring a board of 44 and it's triggered my paranoia. I've also sent the below to schneider. I normally just disconnect the line and neutral for testing between live conductors and then test lives to earth with the earth tail of the rcbo and...
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    Building control inspections

    Does this mean you just turn the lights off during the day? haha the trusty light switch.
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    Insurance, specifically professional indemnity

    Or spend more time on forums! haha I'll give towergate a call on Monday. It's difficult weighing up risks against prices. My dog isn't on insurance anymore because they wan't over a £1000 a year for the old dog, this was a few years ago, I figured I was better off taking the chance and paying...
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    Insurance, specifically professional indemnity

    I just got a combined PL and PI quote for 900 quid! Either my PL is worthless or PI is through the roof.
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    Insurance, specifically professional indemnity

    Sounds like a complete package. Never heard of stroma before, and never worked for anyone that wasn't NICEIC. The only people I've known on another scheme were part time college lecturers who were with NAPIT.
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    Insurance, specifically professional indemnity

    I feel looking through the small print of a lot of providers they seem to want to provide you with insurance in name only. Pretty useless paying for something if it doesn't actually provide what you need. Which is why I wan't a company that actually knows what I do to make sure I'm covered. I...
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    Building control inspections

    Anyway my main interest was talking about how many regulatory bodies can get involved in projects. Especially meeting new BREEAM targets for day light detection.
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    Insurance, specifically professional indemnity

    I'm insured with Direct Line for Public Liability, they don't treat church steeples as a hazardous location which is useful to me. However their professional indemnity insurance doesn't appear to cover doing any electrical installation condition reporting, which is part of what I do. Any...
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    Building control inspections

    Sorry should have been clearer, I don't have it substantiated, but I heard there was one insurance provider that specified that electrical works on the insured premises must be carried out by an NICEIC contractor rather than one belonging to another scheme. Is my information completely wrong?

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