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    Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

    recent EICRs: The terminals for the earth right? (seen this a many times...) clik'n'bang note scorch marks: How much effort did this "fix" take?
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    Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

    Such a waste of money those IP rated connections when you can just choc it and splurge the silicon..!
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    Crazy cable price rises

    its gone up +50% since B.C. by my receipts. TBF though it's been inexpensive for years, probably hasn't even kept up with inflation
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    Rate this builders wiring

    I never started using 1.5 domestically, even before the rise of LED's, never understood the need or why people were so tribal over it. Been told by a few over the years I'm the bodger as they struggle and force 1.5's into teeny poxy connectors.
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    Is Part Pee fit for purpose / who is policing this scam ???

    As I understand it, the onus is on the homeowner to employ someone who will carry out the works in accordance with the law, so part P does not provide an apparatus for going after all the cowboys, only their victims. Problem today is too many people are total melts who don't do their due...
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    Countrywide Repairs Offering 350 EICR's IS a Scam. AVOID

    Sorry to hear about it, I work on the basis that anyone ringing me wanting money for anything is probably a scam or at best overpriced. I had BT customer street calling and harassing me for years, after I made the mistake of sounding interested by their pitch for a moment, I had to say...
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    Anyone else bother double-certing?

    TBF if the original guy was any good he'd be doing the remedials himself, it tends to be where the client smells something off that the rems get offered around! Or the clients just sniffing to get the best price. Neither option tends to be desirable! Glad I'm not the only mug double certing...
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    Electrician has cut holes to close to joist ends

    I really wouldn't stress it, as said the guidelines are relatively recent (used to be just 1 in 6) and I've seen so many examples of far worse that never come to anything - typical one is lazy plumber can't be bothered to lift fresh boards so goes with a line of notches right over sparkys cable...
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    Anyone else bother double-certing?

    So if you fit a new consumer unit for a landlord you need to supply an EICR as that's the only thing the letting agent understands/accepts - technically though you should do an installation cert too, as that forms the customers proof you did the work and guarantee, and would be a scheme...
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    Should the MCB have tripped?

    There's normally an insulating plastic strip around the rocker (the cap itself if metallic will not be earthed) and it's the crack between this and the rocker cap through which the live parts may be only a few mm deep, and thus the damp may track a contact path. In fact being an earthed metal...
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    Should the MCB have tripped?

    Friggin not 'alf, you'd want a priest and a dustpan not a spark! OP do you understand the difference between MCB and RCD?
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    UK EICR quandary

    the electronic certs being so easy to Attach lists of works/specific disconnects etc and attach photos are your friend here, I'd just cover with specific wording perhaps in summary advising client To ensure unsafe and non compliant modifications are prevented.
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    Public liability insurance? Do I need it?

    Mine was £333 through the nic for 5m PL plus 300k PI and 5k tools. Interesting how the indemnity element used to be 100k as standard which I always felt in my guts was too low given some of the atrocious workmanship you have to tackle on a daily basis, but I had to fight them to increase it...
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    New Van - Renault Trafic

    I'm glad I stopped hanging out for the promised e/phev vans and got a new transit derv 2 years ago, they eventually arrived but at prices that only the likes of islington council will consider! I mean how is it you could buy a diesel transit and a Toyota prius for less than the cost of the phev...
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    Which electrician's advice should I follow?

    C2 for RCDs for fault protection on tncs? C2 for RCDs for buried cables? On yer bike! Yeah go with spark 2 although I'd personally suggest a new consumer unit rather than chucking money on RCBOs for a old unit, especially an MK, but that would be optional... By hallway is it an escape route...
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    Heads up faulty pro-tek mcbs

    Not sure how wide-spread this is but undertaking an EICR on a unit comprising 4 pro-tek MCBs the other day, 3 of them refused to re-energise, felt like mechanical failure, 32 and 16amps, model with a large blue lever.
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    what are some tools that were worth the price tag?

    And there's another "didn't think I'd get so much use out of it tool" - angled impact driver. Was an "is it an indulgence" tool as was upgrading the whole lot to Milwaukee 18v but having already selected the hole hawg joist driller thought the heads far too chunky for those tight-access jobs...
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    what are some tools that were worth the price tag?

    Exceptional quality. Wore one out after 7 or 8 years of hard life - still usable but rubber handle came apart and zip knackered. It was getting too heavy esp with all the EICRs I do today not needed so much crap so decided to split toolboxes using a GT line atomic wheeled case as a one box...
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    Electrician refusing to sign off own work because of tripping RCD

    Certification and the tripping RCD are two separate issues, cert is a legal obligation, the RCD he should investigate as profesional courtesy but may be a chargeable extra (is it new or old wiring?)
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    Observing fire detection shortfalls on EICRs

    What exactly do you mean by shortfalls? An out of date or missing smoke alarm as part of the electrical system I'm testing would be noted, a shortfall though lack of requisite alarms (if say a rental) isn't really in my scope although depending on your relationship with the landlord you may...

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