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[telectrix]

Hello, fellow sparkies. I’m a fully qualified electrician having done a 5 week course , got my Part P and everything. Got my NICEIC domestic installer inspection in 2 weeks. Going to rewire my parents house for the inspector to see. It’s a prefab, all concrete, built about 1950 and is wired in that awful round copper covered cable that fits into the boxes with brass nuts. It’s all 2 core cable, so there’s no earth. I’m going to do it all in stickyback plastic trunking, should only take me about a week. The niceic want a small job as well, so I plan to fit a circuit for washing machine and tumble dryer in the only place in my small flat where they will fit. The bathroom. As the floor is tiled, I can’t get to the socket cables, so I plan to come from the bathroom light in the attic, down the corner of the bathroom in trunking, under the bath, and fit a double socket under the bath where the taps are. I’ve looked up in the regulations, and that’s OK because you need a screwdriver to get the panel off. Also it makes the plumbing easy, straight from the tap pipes. And, because there’s no earth on the lighting, I can fix a wire from the earth of the socket to the cold water pipe. One thing I could not understand from the course is why I need to use thick cable on showers and cookers. Is it something to do with the bigger cable allowing the amps to flow faster, like bigger water pipes allow faster water flowing?

 

[stuartcourt]

And dont pull it yourself dno job i think a thread on this would be good for all and I heard it was life

 

[telectrix]

You can but you'll have to get the dno to do that for you as its illegal for us to touch the meter or fuse and you'll be imprisoned for at least 30 years

great. free food, sky tv, pool, darts, heroin, can't wait. where's my meter?

 

[monkeyelectric]

And dont pull it yourself dno job i think a thread on this would be good for all and I heard it was life

You get less time if you kill someone than if you so much as sneeze near the meter or fuse

 

[telectrix]

better not be snorting coke when i do it then.

 

[monkeyelectric]

great. free food, sky tv, pool, darts, heroin, can't wait. where's my meter?

Should be out in the street under lock and key as its so imperative that you shouldn't touch it that nobody really knows where it is, surely if you weren't allowed to touch it they wouldn't leave it in plain site, would they?

 

[chopper76]

Tele, I've seen your reply posts on here before your clearly a qualified sparkie that knows his stuff - stop with the Sunday wind ups, you had too much coffee?

 

[monkeyelectric]

Tele, I've seen your reply posts on here before your clearly a qualified sparkie that knows his stuff - stop with the Sunday wind ups, you had too much coffee?

Thats exactly what he wants us to think!
Perhaps he's lieing about the 5 weeks and only really done the 7 days

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Just a thought, if you want to power some lights in the garden use red cable, if you cut a little groove in the grass and tuck it in no one will see it, but if they do the red will really show up well.






(just in case , *** THIS IS A WIND UP ***)

 

[RmBo_0]

Don't forget to do some testing after, if its a TTNS system to get your Ra you have to put the green one in your mouth and blue one in your right hand and the red one in your left hand.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Don't forget to do some testing after, if its a TTNS system to get your Ra you have to put the green one in your mouth and blue one in your right hand and the red one in your left hand.

Isn't important to chant "tony cable" too, i think you need to read up on the regs:grinningelf:

 

[telectrix]

Don't forget to do some testing after, if its a TTNS system to get your Ra you have to put the green one in your mouth and blue one in your right hand and the red one in your left hand.

yeah.we done that on the course. set the megger to 1000 then press the ---.

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got you going at first though, monkey. LOL.

 

[chopper76]

Where do I put the crocodile clip?

 

[telectrix]

on your balls

 

[monkeyelectric]

Just a thought, if you want to power some lights in the garden use red cable, if you cut a little groove in the grass and tuck it in no one will see it, but if they do the red will really show up well.






(just in case , *** THIS IS A WIND UP ***)

Thats why i run it on the surface in a flower bed but i have someone spray it brown first so it blends in with the soil and doesn't look an eyesore

 

[RmBo_0]

Isn't important to chant "tony cable" too, i think you need to read up on the regs:grinningelf:

I'm gonna do my regs when the 20th edition comes out so I can save up for a book

 

[stuartcourt]

who is this reg you keep going on about, hope this is not a cult and reginald is your leader only just got away from the mormons

 

[monkeyelectric]

who is this reg you keep going on about, hope this is not a cult and reginald is your leader only just got away from the mormons

Reg the veg, he's a green grocer

 

[Knobhead]

Isn't important to chant "tony cable" too, i think you need to read up on the regs:grinningelf:

I'm changing my name.

 

[Robotstar5]

25mm. OK. should i use armoured? we didn't do thet on the course.

Armoured's easy as long as you earth the metal bit under the outer plastic bit, just use a Jubilee clip (from somewhere like Halfrauds) to clamp the earth wire to it, the clip also stops the cable pulling out of the CU.

 

[telectrix]

i thought you cut them all off except 1 and then put that in a choc block.