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    UK Let’s stop pretending the Joint Industry Board (JIB) is fair or impartial

    I think what has happened to cause the rant (It's not my rant btw) is that the JIB and the cartel of schemes have moved the goalposts which means that someone who passed an apprenticeship in the 80's now needs to go do an NVQ3 to "prove" they can do trunking, Tray, Conduit and the like, Just the...
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    What is your hourly rate as a self employed electrician? (2024-25)

    I don't think you can really run a so called successful business for less than £50 per hour and even that is treading a very thin margin. There are "plenty" of subby jobs out there within 1 hours commute of most places in the UK where rates of £25-£30 are realistic. If someone can tell me they...
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    Wiring in Tenerife

    I mostly saw copex in southern spain when I lived/worked there...30 years ago mind lol. The basics are the same though. All radials. No rings as said. You can and do have things like washing machines in bathrooms (well it was commonplace back then anyway). There was a certain simplicity to...
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    3 phase problem after spark did 5 year safety inspection

    Im getting the feeling that the contractors are trying to get you/company to pay for them to come out and "fix" the result in the 1st picture? I would say that the 1st picture should throw any opinions out the water with the evidence of a dead short. What has puzzled me is how did it not happen...
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    What are the right procedures for dealing with an electrical emergency?

    I remember as an apprentice when my spark was working live (Little to no choice) we had simply to stand near him with wooden brooms in the event of electric shock we had to knock them off. I have witnessed a fella copping 415v across his arm. He was connected <1 sec as luckily for him he got...
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    What is your hourly rate as a self employed electrician? (2023)

    As if by magic IT happened on Facebook Electricians UK group today. The chap had been charging himself out for a few years at just over JIB rates lol. This year's rates for him were £22 per hour now this was his own work not even a subby which if people took time to look are hovering between...
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    Best Consumer unit for home

    That guy who started this company was years ahead of the game. Quality products.
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    What is your hourly rate as a self employed electrician? (2023)

    The issue is lets say a man has went through his apprenticeship Boy-Man lol. Then he stays at that firm for a couple of years on JIB rates. He then decides "I'm fed up on £18 an hour" (Or whatever the current JIB rate is). So they set up on their own. Not a business lesson behind them nothing...
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    EICR Inspection Issue

    The issues have been identified really. Even if you just upgrade the bits that have been deemed c2's any buyer is going to haggle IF they get an electrician to look it over as part of their own survey. The age of the installation would be on my list of something I would look to haggle about. The...
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    Points out of 10 for neatness?

    WHY does it need to be renewed...EVERYTHING works fine. :)
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    What am I allowed to do

    DIY wiring ? You mean you found someone who actually admitted to having done it themselves? Have you thought about trying to find the Loch Ness monster? I think finding either is about the same odds. The closest I have come is family members "grassing" the husband/dag/brother as the silly sod...
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    AM2E and NVQ3 experienced worker route- the unabridged low-down for you

    It sounds like the "same" as my old AM2. Replace the plastic for metal conduit. Pretty sure we did a runner coupling. The motor was wired in MICC which we made off. The fault finding and testing scenario was absolutely the same. 4 days, Done in probably 3 and a half. We did have proper...
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    Advice on fixing this outside mess

    That is now very clear and a replacement cable may well be the "best" solution. Now you would want to enquire what amount of power these units need. If it's somewhat less than the original 40 amps then cool, downrate the cable and the protective device. If Not then you simply either find the...
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    Advice on fixing this outside mess

    Would installing a big --- fan blowing along the length of it help at all ? :)
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    Advice on fixing this outside mess

    Im still somewhat intrigued as to how you have identified a break in the origional cable Cut it where ? Inside the consumer unit or elsewhere. Is it the case that the cable is inches short now or is there an as yet unidentified break in the original cable? Ir came back nothing ? Unsure what...
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    Advice on fixing this outside mess

    Hmm as an electrician I tend to check the source of power 1st and then work from there. You also seem convinced that you need to run a new cable...but only in your last post do you state/imply that the armour cable has been cut "somewhere". If something is outside your normal work/comfort zone...
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    Has anyone got an apprentice

    I kind of feel like adding. I 1. Come from a poor --- family. Holidays in anything other than a 1 day bus trip just didn't happen...My dad was a steelworker until 1979..... 2. I also come from a "deprived" area. So it kind of focussed my mind as to what trade did I want to get into, How was I...
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    Has anyone got an apprentice

    @Marvo That is some serious bad luck on the apprentice's front. Also, the fact that the government funding didn't help is obviously a huge hindrance.
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    Has anyone got an apprentice

    Amazes me the amount of fully qualified adults who either can't be arsed to teach or just constantly moan about how ---- their apprentice is lol. With absolutely zero introspection. It's almost like saying "I have had 10 apprentices and they all turned out ---- at their jobs"...Sometimes it's...
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    Success through small claims?

    Nope. Not until after.

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