A good customer wants an identical electric heated towel rail to save the holes in the tiles fitting a different sized one.
Any suggestions appreciated as I've not had any joy on google.
I will admit that I'm not impressed with the quality of ikea light fittings, but regardless of the make of light fitting you would still be in the same position.
Good luck getting it sorted.
Jen, I would suggest that you call a local electrician tomorrow and get them to do it. Obviously check their cost beforehand, but for this type of job I charge my basic callout charge which covers the first hour. I would guess it will cost around £50 to get an electrician out, but at least it...
Or the client might be more mental than a deranged pit bill and already had the hump that his wife agreed to having you in to replace the C/U when it worked fine before you turned up, so you are already taking liberties with his misses, and if you disconnect that circuit with a bare conductor...
Very interesting thread, if not a little concerning that there are so many differing opinions on something as basic as no cpc on a lighting circuit.
So to summarise, what have we learned:
Some apparently do an extensive EICR on every light switch and light fitting as well as well as every...
when the customer is informed that their lighting circuit has no cpc and they refuse to have it rewired or the metal fittings replaced with plastic etc, at what point would the customer take the electrician to court and on what grounds. As already mentioned (many times) their installation has...
Do you not disconnect circuits from the fuseboard when conducting an EICR to report the condition?
Normally when a spark carries out an EICR circuits are disconnected from the board. Many light circuits show a cpc in the board, but there isn't always a earth continuity throughout that circuit...
I am also keen to learn how sparks in your average house get away with charging so much extra. My customers usually work and some work at home and if I told them that before I quoted them to replace their consumer unit they have to pay me £200 for a detailed report with my quote and their...
Sorry but that's not very sensible. We can't always completely solve every issue in life 100% and we rarely do. If a doctor could resolve the majority of a patients medical conditions, accept for just one (he wouldn't make that condition any worse) would he not bother sorting any of the other...
This is exactly how it is in reality.
Crazy that we aren't leaving the lighting circuit any less safe than when we arrived, and we have made the house owner aware of the potential dangers and made all the other circuits much safer and as a result could actually save peoples lives as you...
With regards the EICR, he has removed the lighting circuit and then establishes that it doesn't have earth continuity throughout, and the customer won't replace the metal light fittings. Or are you saying that because it's just an EICR then it's fine for him to then knowingly reconnect the...
Lol, but lots of people have responded, whereas you have singularly made over 200 posts in just 8 days and even had a ban, which has to be a record on any forum
For clarification: I am the defence lawyer's client
When you conduct an EICR and establish that the lighting circuit has no CPC do you also disconnect the lighting circuit until the owner either has a rewire or replaces all the metal light fittings and switches for plastic?
Where does it...
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