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Yes if you attach a copy of your SJIB and 18th Certificate to the EIC. also check with the building control office to make sure they are...

Recommend app for trading stocks etc Just wanna share this with you plumbers out there who are sick of 0% interest on hard earned...

Scoucers don't you just love em? 1590423763 Blomming youngsters, lol

@happyhippydad thats the one I have. Mine is bare metal. I got mine off eBay and it was about £50(ish). Works fine on larger cables but...

Well that thread title didn’t live up to expectations!

Hi Vortigern, Thanks so much for your quick reply, super helpful!! Hahaha yes a music studio, mostly for drum kit practice. Ah well...

Or a ring one depending on your thoughts

I decided to go for the Makita in the end. Thanks for all the input guys it made my choice an informed one. :)

I think you had better say what is you plan to do in there first as to whether it is safe. No hanky panky I hope? Shame about the chair...

Almost a fried doughnut!

Certainly a jammy one!

Almost a fried doughnut!

When I were a Lad, many Moon ago, when I was an apprentic, worked an d lived in Bath, most of the work in those days for a jobbing...

Almost a fried doughnut!

Ask the chaps in the travelling community they seem to do a lot of it.

Almost a fried doughnut!

I would like to put foam acoustic panels all over the walls and ceiling of a room to soundproof it, here are the panels: View...

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Scoucers don't you just love em? 1590423763 Blomming youngsters, lol

Lots of vfd's are configured in v/f open loop control, meaning the motor is not fitted with a feedback device connected to the vfd. V/F...

Agree TTC some people just don't read the thread through, me included some times, anyway Anyway a reminder here and there never hurt...

Thanks for the feedback, your right Jeff did not ask me to team up LOL I was a bit green back then. You might find my videos more...

that's even before my time. the only £5's i remember were blue. hence the saying when selling stolen wheels in Toxteth... £ give us a...

In my day it would have been difficult to mistake the white £5.00 notes they where huge. :innocent:

had a similar near miss the other week. working on a lighting circuit, i asked the client (who was a mate) to switch off the lighting...

Has the fault been fixed and are you going back? It’s very easy to jump in quick and make assumptions, been there and done it. ;) Stick...

back in the day, we gave the apprentice a sharp knife and a box of band-aids and told him to get on with it.

always remember, back in the late 70's , did a rewire for an extremely difficult customer. one of my first jobs as a self-emplyed...

Lots of vfd's are configured in v/f open loop control, meaning the motor is not fitted with a feedback device connected to the vfd. V/F...

always remember, back in the late 70's , did a rewire for an extremely difficult customer. one of my first jobs as a self-emplyed...

Has the fault been fixed and are you going back? It’s very easy to jump in quick and make assumptions, been there and done it. ;) Stick...

My dad was born in 1953.

How to fix skirting on this? Hi Guys, Have a utility project coming up where i want to install tile skirting. What's your advice on how...

When I were a Lad, many Moon ago, when I was an apprentic, worked an d lived in Bath, most of the work in those days for a jobbing...

I only have the means to carry out an earth loop impedance test on an electrode and consider that adequate for compliance.

Only if the regulations required it to be when it was installed. Lighting and many other circuits were accepted as non rcd protected...

Agree TTC some people just don't read the thread through, me included some times, anyway Anyway a reminder here and there never hurt...

Hi everyone, I'm still training so some advice would be appreciated :) We have a shed about 60m from the house where would like a...

I've fitted Philips Hue, pricey but worked well. More recently I fitted some cheap far east imports that the customer had bought, most...

This one looks quite good View...

Dear LF - Good afternoon. I contacted MARLEC technical and sales department on your query. They replied with this message: No this...

Dear LF - Good afternoon. I contacted MARLEC technical and sales department on your query. They replied with this message: No this...

As already suggested by both of us ( posts 2&4). :)

Or a 32Amp OCPD Wired in 4mm2 Governing documentation Appendix 15 BS7671

If you are competent then you should be able to answer this yourself . but I will try and help. Washing machine on heating cycle +...

It means any appliance >2KW. note that is guidance, not a regulation. When I moved in to my house, the whole place was on one 32A RFC...

What does it matter if the lighting circuit had no RCD protection. I bet 90% of houses wired pre 2008 have no RCD protectionto domestic...

To be honest, what you were doing also sounds a bit Yeehaa to me. The problem was that the light had stopped working, so there was a...

What’s wrong with the MCB for the lighting circuit being non RCD protected? Maybe if a recent installation and contrary to current regs...

I got all that. Thanks for your thoughts.