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  1. D

    its that time of night!!

    off to clean my van!!! the joys of night shifts!! :)
  2. O

    My House is Falling Down (C4 last night)

    Who saw Sarah Beeny last night on My House is Falling Down? Electrics were briefly mentioned and an indication of £4K was given for a rewire of a 3 bed semi - which I thought was quite realistic if its basic fittings and nothing fancy. Your thoughts......
  3. J

    RCD Tripping at night and morning? Help!

    Got a call from a client saying that the RCD on the garage unit I installed is tripping in the morning and at night time, but the system is working perfectly during the day and doesnt trip :confused: its a 17 panel system Schott Poly 235W and a Fronius IG 3.6. Reasons for the 3.6 is that the...
  4. RWJ

    Wind farms paid £900,000 to switch off for one night

    Wind farms operators were paid £900,000 by the National Grid to disconnect their turbines for one night because the electricity was not needed. The payments, worth up to 20 times the value of the power they would have produced, raises serious concerns about such subsidies, which are paid for...
  5. D

    London... Need Digs!!

    Im a cheapo and need digs close to central london on 17th May...!! ideally a sofa or a spare bed!!! lol..... if not a recomendation to a hovel in Cent London near Royal Courts of Justice / Blackfriars... all my contacts in london have moved on to pastures new so chance of a free flat is...
  6. W

    How people sleep at night!

    We recently start the strip out of a newsagent in the Glasgow area and the following photo is what one of the guys found when he open the dist board. Spot the issue? It annoys me that we get pulled up for silly things when we're having an inspection from the NICEIC / SELECT and yet...
  7. R

    Call last night - thought I'd share it

    Morning guys OK so I get this phone call yesterday evening about 8ish. This guy is at his dads house and none of the downstairs lights work. The house has the old style fuse board and lights are split upstairs and downstairs. He goes on to tell me that he has removed all the bulbs from...
  8. D

    Best way to test a board which is run on ecomomy 7

    What is the best way to test a board when doing a PIR which is only on when the economy 7 tariff kicks in? (other than doing the test at night) Cheers
  9. Jay Sparks

    2391 exam last night

    Hi lads, Did anyone sit the 2391 exam last night? I did and I didnt find it too bad. The hardest thing is waiting at least 10 weeks to see if I passed or not:mad:. Does anyone know how many marks there where for section A and for section B? I'm trying to work out how many questions I didnt...
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    2391, tonights the night..........

    Written exam tonight, at 6.30pm, should be back home and in the pub by 10pm i hope. I will let you know how well or not i think i have faired with it in due course. Cheers.........Howard PS I hope there isnt too many calculations to do!
  11. P

    alright on the night funnies

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRWy4w1ygvM
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    Solar pannels on newsnight now

    Article on newsnight about photovoltaic. bbc2 10.30pm-11.20pm. Title: Goldrush, but is the sun about to set?
  13. M

    When things go bump in the night.

    I have two friends tell me they are having a similar problem, i assume its an electrical problem but have never came across this before. Every now and then there is a loud thumping noise which seems to be coming from the cieling above and their lights flicker. All the electrics seem to be...
  14. D

    Don't you hate when the gaffer says 1 night...

    And forgets to mention the 2nd? In leeds for one more night. How crap.
  15. D

    Missed my pint last night

    Missed my pint in the pub last night because I was reading a book about the history of Super Glue I just couldn't put it down
  16. polo1

    Testing/fault finding on night storage heaters

    Hi all, new to the forum - be kind. I've no real experience in fault finding and or testing night storage heaters, but will soon have to start this kind of work. I don't mind asking questions, but would like to start of with a reasonable foundation of information. Can anyone offer a tried...
  17. P

    Night Storage radiator swap for convector heater

    Hi People, Had a request from local estate agent who is an agent for a landlord, Property (small Kitchen/Diner, living room, 3 bedrooms and bathroom) has night storage heaters in all rooms, except 2 bedrooms and bathroom, these have convector heaters, tennant wants to change third bedroom...
  18. B

    alternative heating to night storage heating

    I have been asked what alternative I can come up with for heating a house that is currently heated by night storage heating. The owner would like to avoid underfloor heating or installing pipes. The house has no gas either and is on off/on peak tarriff, which they would like to chane to a normal...
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    quiet shopping

    thought i would go up to asda at 9pm for a nice quiet wander around yeh right. hundreds of bloody screaming kids. JLS doing a signing someone hand me some paracetamol
  20. B

    night storage heaters

    hi everyone,hope you all are busy! I have a night storage heater to look at,customer has said it is cold,am thinking could it be the thermal cut out switch just needs to be reset?.will test heater on a temp supply.

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