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  1. M

    Putting in seperate 1 way boards. Pod Points

    Hi all, I work for a firm who are getting busy with the solar pv and will soon be getting busy with the pod point installation (ev charging domestic). My gaffer (who is not an electrician) wants a new 1 way board putting in on every job, no questions asked. Even if the existing board is 17th...
  2. G

    Putting 2 x storage heaters on existing household circuits Consumer unit

    Hi I have a customer who lives on the 2nd floor in an upmarket flat in Cambridge. She used to have some kind of hot air vented system for her heating which has now been removed. She would like to have 2 x decent sized storage heaters fitted with 2 or 3 panel heaters as a top up. At the moment...
  3. T

    Putting out feelers

    Hi all I will get straight to the point ,Being in the electrical game for 31 years now and fed up with filling in test sheets, I am currently designing an EICR for use on the iPad.(more test sheets to follow.) These are somewhat different from other software packages as the the test sheet...
  4. H

    Putting 230v into Camper van

    I have client who has requested 230v sockets in a camper can which is being turned into a mobile coffee shop for festivals etc. Regarding the vehicle chassis and bonding. Will the vehicle require an earth Rod? The sockets are to be supplied by a single phase portable generator. It's the...
  5. J

    thermostat options

    Hi Have never lived in a house that had heating thermostats installed and am putting them in a new build house. I have stayed in a mates house where there is a stat in the bed room and the clicking on/off was a bit annoying. Are they all much of a muchness or are there solid state versions or...
  6. B

    Whether Putting a spanner in the works..

    I don't know what its like in the rest of the country but its a bit of a nightmare in the north east.. Had a productive day of pricing jobs up which has been knocked on the head as there is not a hop in hell the car is moving off the drive..
  7. tombrooker84

    putting a lighting circuit on a RCBO

    Hello Guys, I've got a garden lighting job to do, there is an exisiting supply, fed from a flexible conduit (not great, but without ripping up a patio it will have to do). Currently it is fed from from a MK sentry 16th edition split board, without RCD protection, so I was going to upgrade the...
  8. L

    cooker switch

    hi i am putting a new oven in 3kw i am running it on a radial on 2.5 on a 20 amp mcb just to check can the cooker switch be an 13 amp fuse connection unit with neon light
  9. D

    Putting right DIY Consumer unit change....

    Hi All, I have recived a call from a guy who has installed a 10 way duel RCD consumer unit as a DIY project and can now only get the up and down light MCB's to switch on. If he attempts to eneregize sockets, cooker and shower etc, one of the RCD's trips. As we all know it probably going to be a...
  10. K

    gas and water testing

    hi guys hope yous can help, doing periodics for a council, i cant get access to the main water and gas bonds in the house, laminated flooring, boxing ins etc, what do i put on the certificates? its niceic forms, was thinking putting in limitations at the tic boxes and putting reasons in at the...
  11. P

    Putting 10mmsq 4C SWA through a wall - what products are there for sealing wall.

    Hi guys, i am working on a site where there is a GRP "hut" where all the plant is where i am working. the client is providing the power from their local DB but to get the cable into the hut we need to go through the wall, this is contructed of a GRP, plywood, foam insulation etc - thickness...
  12. B

    Main Isolator For Installation

    Hi there, your thoughts on an EICR if been asked to carry out. From the picture attached its a bit of a mess, but to explain its a 3 phase supply which looks like used to be a shared premies but now a sports club and a doctors surgery that im in. What the installation im looking at is on a...
  13. La Poste

    Putting stuff right.

    Greetings. A friend of the family has had extensive building work done and also a re-wire. The state of the work is pretty bad to say the least. The builder in charge of the job has since folded the company and morphed into a new company and the Sparky is not from these shores and also...
  14. K

    Domestic visual condition report

    Morning lads searched the web for these kind of certificates but could only find nic di ones, iam with elecsa and they dont do them so was wondering if any of you lads and lasses have got a made up copy which you could email across or a design that i could follow to produce my own i would be...
  15. E

    How much would you charge for first fix socket points. No materials

    Basically theres a basement and hall. 25m by 10m. and first floor is quarter size of hall. some rooms on each floor. Big area, high ceilings. All im quoting for is putting in wires and twin/single boxes and sheething/clipping them to the fuseboard. Its all new block walls so no chasing. Just...
  16. W

    Putting right a rented house that was used as a cannabis farm

    Hmmm. Had a look at a job today, just need a bit of advice on something... Split load Wylex CU, all original circuits have been moved to the RCD side to make way for the rogue ones on the non-RCD side. There are problems with very poor IR on the lighting and a scrape-able pass on the ring...
  17. Paul.M

    I'm not putting this one in the accident book!

    First thing this morning I picked up the apprentice and went to the first job in the city center. Need to unload and park up ten mins walk away kind of thing. Anyway, got there and parked on double yellow lines, jumped out to off load tools + mats. In a rush I opened both back doors of the...
  18. rmaynard

    Putting power back into the grid

    Can someone explain how this is done, how can the power generated by the pv array be pushed back into the grid Sent from my GT-P1000 using Tapatalk
  19. S

    tt testing results

    hi i'm not sighning it off, just doin some tests before a proper sparky sighns it off. will be doing my 2392 in a couple of weeks. the ze is 284 so i suggested putting another earth rod in, will this help. the PEFC is < 1 A, dont understand this the PSCC is 0.66 the rcd test on sockets. half...
  20. Dean Williams

    RCBO Question...

    Hi when i try to test an RBCO at the DB it trips as soon as the test probes touch the terminals, this only seems to happen with Bill/MEM RCBOs, it doesnt happen with Merlin or Square D. I'm using a standard Robin RCD tester. Any idea why???

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