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  1. 1Justin

    Need some advice please

    I quote a whole day for an EICR, and that's invariably full-on. I'm likely to still be doing the report at 11PM. It's a tough day.
  2. 1Justin

    New multifunction tester

    But that's all a £60 "Calibration" ever is, regardless of the age of the tester. If it helps any Sb8389, I'm using a 6 year old 1720 without any calibration issues. - Saying that it does need some straightforward "maintenance" of it's internal test-lead connectors from time to time, and like...
  3. 1Justin

    Brushed Steel Screwless plate - which Brand?

    I always warn customers with existing installations against it. Stiff old cables, too may connections jammed inside boxes and wonky walls don't go with any screwless stuff. Also the wall coverage is often smaller, meaning openings round the edges get revealed. Just about OK on new build provided...
  4. 1Justin

    Changes are coming, what do you all think

    But it's not fault current, it's any residual installation neutral return current which is able to lift the MET and all exposed conductive parts. The neutral current is surely still balanced in the tails since it's got to be the same as any live current. (There is no earth fault in the...
  5. 1Justin

    Changes are coming, what do you all think

    . I don't see that. Image attached. Surely in PME case, an RCD would need to be before the head so as to be able to pick up on return N current not running in PME N ? - It could still look balanced in the tails.
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  7. 1Justin

    Changes are coming, what do you all think

    . & This would need to be before MET then wouldn't it? - Thus the property of DNO ?
  8. 1Justin

    Changes are coming, what do you all think

    I more or less had to refuse exactly that request recently. It's going to get more common, and especially with hybrids which only need small charge off 13A socket, hard to draw a line against the regs.
  9. 1Justin

    Changes are coming, what do you all think

    Is that one (earth electrode) proposed to be a necessary upgrade prior to alterations, or (I thought..) only for new build?
  10. 1Justin

    Advice on this little number! Power and lighting in same switch?

    No regulation to say you can't. Strikes me as not the most sensible thing to do, but then think of situation in loads of house with 2 way upstairs-downstairs lighting. Often as not one of those boxes (if it's a double switch also for somewhere else - say the landing), contains 2 circuits. Add a...
  11. 1Justin

    Downlights for your own home

    In my kitchen we have a number of porcelain shade pendants over work surfaces, and a few similar style onset spots (Original BTC, too expensive to buy new, so sourced variously on ebay) . Another huge benefit (for kitchen extensions) is no break of the vapor barrier or insulation in the ceiling...
  12. 1Justin

    Need some advice please

    There is a market for cut-price EICR. There are websites out there devoted only to offering bargain-priced reports. Sadly there are plenty of landlords who see the requirement as only an annoyance to the collection of rent, and one to be expunged at the lowest possible cost. I've come across...
  13. 1Justin

    Downlights for your own home

    I wouldn't want downlights in my house! The British have a love affair with them though. I fit plenty for customers. I've found Aurora to be nice, didn't much like Ansell (Orbio), was underwhelmed by JCC Hybrid 9. Numerous cheapo brands, have been sometimes OK, sometimes not nice, but suits low...
  14. 1Justin

    3 core + earth for switch drops

    I would definitely prescribe it for a new build, the small extra cost would be negligible. It opens up loads of options for switching which (because of the way we do things in the UK) are closed to most domestic installations.
  15. 1Justin

    Downlights- wood wool board?

    If they really do want downlights (seems a bit out of place to me), fitting into a squashy/crumbly sort of ceiling, you are unlikely to get a clean opening. I'd choose a downlight which could (if necessary) take a "converter ring" as standard to cover the unsightly mess you might create when...
  16. 1Justin

    Torque VDE driver sets.........

    Torque drivers are detrimental as often as useful IMO. I straight-up told my annual assessor the same.. "I have one but rarely use it", without any sort of argument. Problem is that since they have been encouraged by NIC etc, they are getting used, even for screw-terminal neutral and earth bars...
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    Flat torque driver.jpg

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  18. 1Justin

    A bakelite half-moon box :)

    I'm a bit disappointed it went in the rubbish. Bother. Should have kept hold of it. I wasn't expecting an exciting time discussing 1940's junction boxes.
  19. 1Justin

    A bakelite half-moon box :)

    Funny little half-moon bakelite box hidden behind this wall. Quaint, wonder what the thinking was for those. Have not come across them before.
  20. 1Justin

    Do you all carry crystal balls?

    I keep mine carefully wrapped in the van, along with these.

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