hello, we recently had our siding replaced with hardie board. Where there was a wall mounted light the siding installer left 4" round hole that is slightly less than 1" deep. The old wire just comes out through a hole in the plywood sheathing and there is a 4" diameter x 1/2" thick electrical...
Anyone know a decent online retailer that actually lists their hobs by recess dimensions (or even lists them at all in some cases?)
Side rant - why do a lot of appliance websites tell you all the information except the bits an installer might actually want to know, like recess dimensions or...
I will/may be burying 16mm SWA in concrete to route it to an outbuilding (for the kiln I have just been chatting about!). This will be getting driven over by cars. Is there an ideal depth for this? Also, does the SWA require any further form of protection?
I’ve installed electric gates at a property.
One of the issues I’ve had is I was unable to bury the cables at a sufficient depth as this would have weakened the driveway. So, I laid an earthed SWA cable around the edge of the driveway and encased it in 5cm of concreate, marker tape over that...
Hi, just wanted to know the depth to dig the trench for an armoured cable to an outside shed. I've read that the reg are a bit opaque but considering the mrs found the existing cable about one inch down (a standard orange cable, looks like its off a flymo cable - it is live as the shed lights...
Unfortunately last weekend while digging up tree stumps I managed to go through the power cable for the local scout hut. SSE are now billing me £330 for fixing it! However a neighbor thought I might be able to argue it as it's only 200mm below the surface. As it was installed with the scout hut...
So today's job was going to be to run power to the shed. Dig down a couple of foot, line with sand, lay SWA, bury in sand, add topsoil, lay warning tape, rest of top soil, job done.
The actual list of events turned out to be "Dig down half a foot, hit solid chalk, swear a bit, dig the rest of...
Following great advice on here about wiring my ceiling light I've now moved onto replacing the plastic light switches. Does anyone know if a 16mm back box will be OK to accommodate this switch...
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I'm going to look at a job over the weekend which involves getting power to a log cabin at the bottom of a garden. The run is about 25 meters.
I am going to use SWA cable, what depth would the cable need to be buried at and would you run it in any ducting or anything?
Is there any other...
All I want to do is sell coffee!! In short ... I've had a mid life crisis and bought a catering van. It has a full size domestic fridge onboard. I need to keep milk cold from home to event site. I'll hook up at home and chill fridge till I leave. Am planning on using an inverter to keep fridge...
Just had a discussion with a builder where he told me that metal back boxes have to be fixed at a certain depth. The front edge of the box should be about 3mm depth from the front surface of plasterboard (12mm). I am unaware of any depth requirements regarding plasterboard and metal back boxes...
Been doing some work at a domestic property, that's had some building renovations done. Whilst the small frontage to the property was resurfaced, the electricity service cable was uncovered. It runs for approximately 2 metres from the road, at about 75mm below the surface, then into the...
Been sparking now 25yrs plus
Did testing and inspecting 10 year ago
Do a lot of new installation tests and conditional reports of our own installs once they are up for renewal , so don’t really have to put codes on any thing because it’s all usually pretty much up to current regs
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I was asked to install a small consumer unit at the end of step down transformer. The consumer unit is fed from a panel board put in place for a future wind turbine project . The consumer unit feeds a socket and a light. This is all in a metal container that is earth roded with bare tape and...
I've always assumed this rule was the same under slabs or concrete, not just under soil Ect.
Am I correct as the regulation doesn't state so that's why I assumed it.
The reason being, I've just gone and quoted a job and another (electrician!!) quoted a lot less, I asked how much Ect and how he...
I got called to look at a job for a landscape company, one of the chaps who works there is a mate who recommended me. It would be a good contact to get some regular work especially as they dont have a regular spark.
The customer wanted to have an external socket to run a water feature. The...
Hi, cable breached on site. Northern power advised no legislation re depth of cable in existence (holding me liable). Is this correct? Cable found at 170mm below surface.
can anyone provide any document stating 1984 cable depth legislation, and any associated depth legislation?
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another house im working on at the moment, plumber was there today, he was just going when I arrived.
he has put some pipes in, but to be honest I think he has gone a bit in the deep side, I said to the customer it looks a bit deep, he brought it up.
Basically its 9" brick, and has taken...
In "Advanced Electrical Installation Work" by Trevor Linsley, he says that an earth electrode rod that is 1m deep will typically have a resistance of between 10 and 200 ohms. Given that fault currents can supposedly, momentarily, be in the order of 1000's of amps, this makes me scratch my head...
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Hi everyone,
I am digging the trench for 25-30m of 3x6mm SWA from my house's CU to the (yet to be installed) summer house. 95% of the length will be under a new stone patio. This is part of a major back garden landscaping project which I challenged myself to do on my own (most of it anyways)...
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