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    Thinking about my future

    Whilst I was working for myself, I also mixed in testing for councils and housing associations As you know its hardly back breaking work and always seems to be available. Ruston stated,you can't be sure of whats to come, you may be being pessimistic,there are sectors that don't require house...
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    Damn, gone and bought another tool.........

    Nice bit of equipment but more cost than my pocket money will allow Anyway.I have a trusted old dust extractor that I take to bed with me every night,she also does the dishes and washes my clothes:)
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    100a Isolation Switch Cost

    Thats a poor response and a comparison that is irrelevant
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    Electrical competence

    The problem you have is that the electrical trade bodies requires the person to perform safe isolation,safe isolation using approved test meters is easily taught and then understood by most people with a bit of common sense The problem comes with identifying "what" requires isolation and what...
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    100a Isolation Switch Cost

    I agreed with the £60 job when it was posted, but for me and regarding the suppliers equipment I have fitted and will likely do so in the future scores of isolators without touching or interfering with any suppliers equipment Its known as working live,it was once a task that did not cause...
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    100a Isolation Switch Cost

    What a palaver about fitting a isolator Just as a comparison,if this were my job it would probably have been done in ten to twenty minutes Maybe,make a decent offer on here with a price you are willing to pay and maybe some kind soul living local will oblige
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    Where to put sockets?

    Put them surface mounted high up and at the front in the cupboard next door (your entry hole will be at the back high up out of sight Fit the supply cable and the appliance cable in stick on trunking,mount the socket on a surface pattress sideways on so that no cable hangs down Extra...
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    whats with the five words

    You want catch me writing more than 5 words in my replies because it happens to need that many to post :)
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    Why isnt the RCD tripping?

    Your relatively high 270 thousand ohm resistance of neutral to earth (combined with a high resistance earth return) is sufficiently high enough that there is not enough leakage to earth to imbalance the RCBO in the normal working conditions
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    New Liquid Battery

    Wet cells have hardly improved since Leclanche came along with his 3 pint porous pot :) Do you indeed have a link ?
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    Landlord consumer unit

    The chances are,if a new consumer unit be fitted it will likely be a metal clad number with two Rcds to split the circuits In my own opinion the system you have currently is safer than whats presently permitted for TT systems That is because the casing has the potential to become live with no...
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    Landlord consumer unit

    I did not say there was a requirement :( If he has a schedule of inspections he should be able to note the number of the particular regulation where a non conformity occured against the coding given for any problems It would indicate why the inspector feels it does not comply
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    Home based spray booth

    My apology to you Pete if it seemed aimed at you,it was not meant for you or your post It was because of what I experienced on this forum last year with the EU thread,that thread went way beyond what was being discussed,I was personally getting too much abuse simply for having a different...
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    Landlord consumer unit

    Ask for, and publish on here, the regulation numbers that it contravenes,he should have supplied you with the information in the report Post a picture of the existing and we can go from there
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    Home based spray booth

    I have very often gone into industrial units,supplied 3 phase and single phase outlets,perhaps high bay or fluorescent lights,used differing methods of installing,conduit,pyro, armoured, clipped,whatever was wanted and complied it got installed What I would not do would be refuse to install...
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    Floor sockets + Building Regs

    Having never read any of these "must have" documents I will accept your reply as true and well intentioned If ever I needed to apply building regs to my work it was always done via what was contained inside my head :) I did find a useful purpose at one time,they were fine for showing to a...
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    Home based spray booth

    He has asked for work to be done,what he does with what you provide is his look out I don't see how anyone can be responsible for whatever work is then carried out
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    Floor sockets + Building Regs

    I think it was a very good question and having no intention of reading part P and its associated junk,its one I can't answer
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    Acceptable departure?

    I would prefer not to temporarily bypass this rcd for testing purposes If it were me I would prefer to do just the opposite :cool: plus you have let yourself now become vulnerable to criticism of your own work Also I wouldn't give a Monkeys whether it was evident I had linked out the 100m/amp...
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    Time for a new Electricians' union?

    The ETU, my union,was responsible for one of the biggest betrayals of worker by fellow worker in the history of unions Wapping was the name and shame was the game,I resigned from that union after their actions in cutting the throats of their fellow workers and was ashamed to admit it had at...

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