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  1. Dave OCD

    This could have been nasty...

    We've been upgrading some bits and pieces in a rented house which hasn't had anything done for at least 40 years by the looks of it. The picture is where an old fused spur and box was being renewed as it was really manky and cracked too. This would once have been the external wall but a 'lean...
  2. Dave OCD

    Proof that it is possible to install a BG CU tidily.

    Someone commented fairly recently that all pics of BG boards posted up are usually RAF and generally turn up in the 'Dodgy trade pics' thread. Here's a picture I just came across of one I did around 5 or 6 years ago - the old days when dual RCD and no SPD weren't considered naughty. :) Edit -...
  3. Dave OCD

    BS7671 Model Forms - new Amd 2 versions.

    I just had a look on the IET 'Model forms' site and looked in particular at the new EICR including Amendment 2 - looks like it was only added today ? Well guess what - it's more long-winded than ever with the test results schedule now spread over two pages. Don't get me wrong I'm all for doing...
  4. Dave OCD

    Todays board change - 'real world' with older cables.

    This was commenced at 2.30pm today after having to locate and rectify an open neutral on a ring, missing earth continuity on a lighting circuit and 2 sockets spurred off the cooker. ? It's as good as I could make it with the older T&Es , and annoying that everything barring 2 lives of a ring...
  5. Dave OCD

    Fusebox CU With Compact DP RCBOs

    We just finished a complete rewire of a very old 3 storey house yesterday, quite challenging and actually exhausting at times and it took 16 days altogether, but I'm really happy with the finished job. This CU was started at 4.20pm yesterday and completed at 6.55pm including the RCBO tests. [The...
  6. Dave OCD

    'Real World' CU upgrade.

    I just thought I'd post up a typical (but smallish) CU replacement done today. Commonly you don't have much if any slack cable to work with and with trying to dress previously connected conductors you're never going to get the same level of neatness as a brand new install. But I think this is a...
  7. Dave OCD

    One of todays jobs in a new build bungalow.

    An 8 zone underfloor heating connection box. I had to do a little modifying as these are designed for surface wiring. Also they usually go close to the manifold where the actuator flexes will connect straight in but this one is about 2 metres from the manifold so T&Es go down to a seperate box...
  8. Dave OCD

    Moderation

    I've noticed this evening having put a couple of posts on that I'm getting a message each time saying 'awaiting approval'. Is this being applied to everyone, a temporary glitch in the system or am I no longer trusted ? :confused:
  9. Dave OCD

    Very strange this one.

    This is true - I called in to see a customer who'd reported that every time his wife went upstairs for a shower in the evening the telly in the lounge would lose reception - particularly BBC1 ! :confused: I established that it was the bathroom lights being switched on that caused the issue and...
  10. Dave OCD

    Before and after some 'unbodging'.

    I've been doing quite a lot of work in a nice house for the last 3 days, bought by a retired lady and her son last Autumn and I was recommended after they'd had a N####C A/C in a few months ago. The biggest job was lowering the C/U to a sensible accessible height, the previous 'Electrician' has...
  11. Dave OCD

    Slightly unusual request

    I have a customer with elderly parents who have recently moved into a care home and now their house is being sold. It's an ex Council House. Somewhere along the long winded selling process the buyers Solicitor has picked up that a new electric shower circuit was installed in 2013 [Nothing to do...
  12. Dave OCD

    Very odd problem what do you think ?

    I might be overlooking something that's right under my nose but opinions would be much appreciated. I visited a customer today with a detached garage supplied with power from a 13a RCD fused spur in the conservatory [spurred off RFC]. The RCD is 'tripping' randomly so I went to investigate...
  13. Dave OCD

    2 day CU upgrade,a bit of a pain.

    Yes it's a chore this one. 30 year old MK unit with main switch and no RCDs in sight. 18 circuits and on every one the original installer thought he'd write the MCB rating and cable size, no other circuit info at all ! There are 5 rings, 2 cooker circuits, 2 immersions, 3 socket radials and 6...
  14. Dave OCD

    Customer didn't get his Smart Meter.

    Had a call earlier from a chap I've worked for in the past, his CU [renewed around 12 years ago] and meter is sited in a cupboard under the stairs. The meter fitter was 'on site' and concerned about a buzzing sound in the aforementioned cupboard. He thought it could be dangerous and also thought...
  15. Dave OCD

    Ariston E-Combi with 2 zone valves.

    I've managed to confuse myself a bit, I have to connect up the above boiler with 2 zone valves. Now the 'external controls' link is low voltage in the boiler and this is connected to the built in timeswitch for heating, I have 2x 2 port valves [upstairs/downstairs heating zones] and Honeywell...
  16. Dave OCD

    Opinions please,cable type.

    I have a little job coming up which will entail an overhead supply on catenary wire to feed an outbuilding [around 18 metres] . This will need 4mm cable as the loading could on occasion reach 6kW. In the past I often used T&E for this sort of thing but that isn't considered suitable these days...
  17. Dave OCD

    If someone asks you to install one of these avoid if you can.

    A hand made glass chandelier from Italy , cost unknown but not cheap. The customer brought this back from Bermuda in 3 cardboard boxes and we had to assemble then fit to the vaulted ceiling in a converted attic bedroom. I also had to find E12 Candle Lamps which nobody stocks. The picture doesn't...
  18. Dave OCD

    Pictures of simple jobs done properly.

    I was thinking as per thread title why don't we post up some pictures of how we do the simple common things, would be interesting to get different views and also show the people new to the trade how things ought to be. I'll start off with a simple 3 plate ceiling rose pendant that my son did...
  19. Dave OCD

    What my lad made today at college.

    A cable stand, from 20mm galv conduit. He was well chuffed and couldn't wait to show me when I got home. I think he did well, still only 17. :)
  20. Dave OCD

    Finished a rewire today.

    I'd forgotten how much hard work rewiring can be although this was strictly speaking a partial one, just the original house which had a single very dodgy rubber twin for all the lighting and a slightly larger and equally dodgy rubber twin [with a separate bare stranded tinned copper earth !]...

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