I am willing to bet that its a private rental, advertised in a local paper or the internet,
I visited one recently in my area, the owners could not afford to rewire the house, it has been in the family since it was built in 1961, they live in a 2.25M house and have several expesnive all wheel...
My Brother send me this, awaiting photos
my reply was curt and informed the tenant of his rights, sounds like the sparkie is a muppet
Someone at work has just moved into a rented flat, he's just shown me pictures.
It has an electric shower, and when they switch it on sparks come out - between...
Toolstation is owned by Travis perkins !
they often have decent power tools in stock as most builders are clumsy sods and break things
I recently purchased some good quality Makita stuff in my local builders merchants ( Bence and Co )
pro quality and cheaper than B and Q and spare batteries were...
with Bosch Power tools the Green ones are DIY with nylon gears
the blue one are pro with steel gears
the problem with the big sheds is they buy in bulk and you often get an old model
in the case of one make of drills they sell, the batteries fitted have a red case signifying cheaper construction...
if there was no cpc then its likely to be a re 1966 installation, in which case the place needs rewiring
if its being rented out then the wiring should be safe
I had one afew weeks back, I issue one of NAPITs death certificates to the client, that way its on record when something goes wrong and...
there was a rather buxom young wench in the room and when she squeezed past me the thing light up rather brightly
I got her to repeat the exercise again to make sure
it was not an unpleasant experience even at my age
however on another job I kept my distance as the client looked like Albert...
ha ha
no
oddly enough he told me that as he was in possesion of an electrical certificate then it was safe
I pointed out that a car with a bent MOT was not safe ?
in fact I nearly told him to go and boil his head, I dont need that hassle at my age
the DNO engineer put him right
by the way...
one of my nicer jobs, was when I visited a regular customer to look at a new house for them
I dragged all of my test gear in, but did not even open the box up
like a museum it was
same job, this was how the stupid gombeens had supplied an earth to the C/U
the DNO engineer was not impressed and took their details
I gather they are no longer carrying out electrical work
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