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    lead sheathed cable repairable

    Cheers Guys. thought it would be a can of worms myself, just thought there might be some wonder product that I hadn't heard about that might help. Will need to look first and see how bad, might be an option to repair and solder an earth to the lead which was mentioned but that might come back...
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    lead sheathed cable repairable

    They said flash bang wallop so still in use.
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    lead sheathed cable repairable

    Hi All. got a call today from the plasterers to see if I can repair a cable they chopped whilst chiselling. going to have a look tomorrow but they have informed me its lead sheathed. I've seen it before but never had anything to do with it. I'm guessing its un repairable and rewire is the...
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    Anybody having problems with click scolmore gear?

    I have been using click stuff for years and I think its fair to say its pretty decent stuff. one dodgy fcu in about five years is pretty good to me.
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    two houses into one

    Going back in the next few days just to go over a few things so got a few more options to think about thanks to you and the rest of the forum. will keep you posted on any changes. Regards Daz...
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    two houses into one

    Thanks engineer,the job itself is a nice one to do being empty on the side that needs a rewire.What do you think about the two showers?I think if the two of them together draw a touch over 85amps and theres a few more appliances on then the 100 amp should still hold out for good length of time...
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    two houses into one

    Sorry engineer.its basically two semidetached bungalows, three bedrooms each and a couple of loft rooms. not to big really.
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    two houses into one

    Thanks to all,at the moment it seems the dno want to charge for two supplies and that's why they want to run off one. Only problem with that is the two 10.5 kw showers and one 100 amp supply fuse.Maybe not likely to blow but would be a real pain if it did.Timbobelfast thanks for that, that could...
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    two houses into one

    Hi all. customer is converting two houses into one. one half already modernised and rewired, other half to do. there is two supplies into the property but wants the dno to cut one off and use the supply from the modernised side with a new consumer next to the original, so basically two consumer...
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    two buildings into one

    ok i see what you mean, unfortunately its been two seperate buildings made into one with two metering points. but thanks to all, i'd better get my miners lamp and try and find a way through.:cry_smile:
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    two buildings into one

    So how would you do it? i can't see any other way!
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    two buildings into one

    that,s a good question snowhead, there is also a small consumer unit in the new middle bit thats fed from a swa what looks to run back to the single phase board of which i'm 95% sure.
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    two buildings into one

    Thanks engineer. looking at the heating system, it seems to be fed from the single phase supply in one building with pipe work and radiators continuing to the next and all pipework crossbonded back to the single phase board.
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    two buildings into one

    Thanks for the quick response. they are not pme. one building is three phase and one building is single phase, and are being run as two seperate buildings, so there are two mets. the idea being it failed because the two mets need linking to create one.
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    two buildings into one

    Hi guys. been asked to look at a job where two buildings have been made into one, where a building as been erected in between and combined to make one building. been like this for a while and had numerous inspections and passed.now recently its had ecir done and failed because there are two...
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    kitchen lights abd heat damage

    Cheers Tel. i couldn't really think of any other way so we'll call that plan a. and see if a plan b pops up. thanks in advance to all Daz...
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    kitchen lights abd heat damage

    Hi all. once again i,m looking for some advice from all you valued members, been to look at a job to replace a twin fluorescent weatherproof battern lamp in a commercial kitchen.The heat of the kitchen as caused the lamp to become brittle and actually drop off the ceiling. the twin and earth...
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    Cheap multitool blades

    i've been using saxton blades bought off ebay' cheap as chips and just as good as fein with a good selection of different types. go blunt if you hit a nail with the 65mm wood blade but then so do fein at nearly 4 times the price.
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    bosch combi and honeywell stat and programmer

    Hi all. going to sound really thick here. adding a honeywell t6360b to a bosch greenstar 27cdi combi boiler using 3 core for the central heating only which i've done a few times. now they are wanting to add a seperate programmer and was thinking of using a honeywell st9400c. looked at the...
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    eicr code

    Thanks guys. would feel better if rcd protected, but not to be, might try and persude him it needs a bit of trunking. thanks for the input. Sometimes its hard to judge. regards daz...

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