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Hi,

This morning's job, in and out in 4 and a half hours. Vast improvement. Feel free to rip it apart and tell me I'm a fool and I've made a bodge of it and don't know what I'm doing.

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I did actually heat shrink the end of that line conductor and disconnect the relevant earth and neutral and shrink them the same, it was for a shower circuit thats not connect in the loft, they also got labelled accordingly.

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You may say why the cable ties, I saw one of you do it the other week on here, Trev i think or GMES maybe? Looked nice.

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Ok I know MCB 8 is on when it doesn't need to be, I did switch it off.
 
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Those circuit detail stickers are carp, the almost always fall off. And then they are hand written so often hard to read, plus there is not enough space to be detailed!
Just print a decent circuit list, laminate it and fix it to, or near to, the CU.
For a simple domestic installation you don't really need a the extra details, just the specifics of what each circuit does.
 
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davesparks said:
Those circuit detail stickers are carp, the almost always fall off. And then they are hand written so often hard to read, plus there is not enough space to be detailed!
Just print a decent circuit list, laminate it and fix it to, or near to, the CU.
For a simple domestic installation you don't really need a the extra details, just the specifics of what each circuit does.
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I usually do a nice sheet in excel, pop it in a pouch and stick the pouch to the distribution board in any situation other than domestic. It always seemed a bit much for domestic though.

I used to laminate them until I realised what a pain in the --- it was to add a circuit onto it later on :S
 
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davesparks said:
Those circuit detail stickers are carp, the almost always fall off. And then they are hand written so often hard to read, plus there is not enough space to be detailed!
Just print a decent circuit list, laminate it and fix it to, or near to, the CU.
For a simple domestic installation you don't really need a the extra details, just the specifics of what each circuit does.
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this is carp:

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gazj82 said:
I'm intrigued with the circuit details sticker, where did you get them from, or did you print them yourself? I have always used Hager ever since I can remember unless something else is specced. Always have been very nice boards in my opinion.
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See post 6 for info on this. I've seen quite a few hager boards where the stickers have all curled up and fallen off, I'm going to create a grid template on my label printer so that've can just bung them all in and off it prints.

I use 12mm clear on black super strength adhesive labels not the standard strength.
 
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Ah yes, I do have a Brother label printer to mark up MCB's. I did mean the circuit detail list on the flap down lid (unless your label printer can do those too, mine definitely cannot).
 
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Half of it wasn't covered by an RCD, there was a heat wise economy 10 supply in the left feeding one of the immersion elements which has now been converted to the whole installation as E7.

the customer just wanted a new unit as it's about to be let out and he wanted it all to be nice and safe.

Thanks for the positive comments everyone, it's nice to know others think it's ok.
 
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It's basically fine, but i can't see any reason for anyone to use cable ties in a tiny domestic CU... I don't allow there use in our larger final circuit DB's either, they can become the cause of absolute nightmare tracing cables in a relatively small area, where most if not all the ties would need to be removed to enable to trace/find a single conductor.....
 
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I remember getting a right rollocking off my leading electrician once for tie wrapping a load of line conductors together. It took me quite a while and I was well pleased with it, but I was made to take them all off. Never done it since.
 
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Andy78 said:
I remember getting a right rollocking off my leading electrician once for tie wrapping a load of line conductors together. It took me quite a while and I was well pleased with it, but I was made to take them all off. Never done it since.
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That and the busses ran late and people didn't have their tickets checked :)
 
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I am not a tywrap man myself andy, but the board didn't look untidy and it was only a few small cores, no big issue IMO, now if it was a 36 way board and every core wrapped I would be jumping up and down about it lol.
 
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