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    Sockets in oak panelling

    Just looked at a re-wire Job where I need to re-wire an oak panelled room. The sockets are currently mounted within the skirting boards, moving them up won’t reduce the fire risk so what should it do?
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    CPN Cudis from cef

    Screwing down 25mm tails the crew heads are not sufficient
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    CPN Cudis from cef

    When replacing a fuse board which needs to be fully loaded with RCBOs. More often than not clients... especially commercial want RCBO fuse boards in the interest of diversity should there be a fault which I agree. However the only dilemma I have is trying to compete on price as it’s not just a...
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    Good cable to use outside

    hello guys I have a lighting install at high level outside a house. I don’t need additional mechanical protection and would like to use a good UV resistant insulated and sheathed cable. Don’t want to use conduit as it looks ugly. I normally used white FP 200 which the manufacturers said...
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    Good pipe and cable wall tracer

    Regs for PVC pips in walls need a metalic strip installed apparently, so latest you could argue the regs and wiggle your way off the hook should you hit it
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    Good pipe and cable wall tracer

    Went through my first pipe in 15 years today, my worst nightmare when i saw water dribble out the wall i died inside. oddly enough it turned out to be a dribble from dead leg. i have always relied on zones but today i went into what was a dead central heating pipe, (according to the emergency...
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    emergency lighting layout drawings

    Is there any software that will enable a rough drawing of a building layout which can combine photo metric data? Possibly a free software from a lighting manufacturer?
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    View image at your own discretion

    What wound anyone recommend to repair the exposed single insulation from the thermo plastic conductors on x14 electrical meters? Code 2 on EICR due to storage of goods in a large room might bash into the basic insulation and cause a gigmatic explosion. Is there an insulating material to use?
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    PME supply block of flats

    yes this is true, i spoke with the NICEIC and they say use tabe 54.8 for the ryefield or consult DNO, then each flat cant have any less than 10mm secondary main bonds
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    PME supply block of flats

    Thanks Dave... so going with that and table 54.8, it states selection in accordance with the PEN conductor. So would I need to size the earthing arrangements for each flat according to the main PEN conductor, the PEN conductor at origin is 70mm which would render the CPC of the SWA too small at...
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    PME supply block of flats

    The water and gas inside the flats are 10mm bonded ... the thing that I am quite confused about is the main bonds for the water and gas coming into the building is one huge 50mm cable. Then inside the flats 10mm water and gas bonds There are two main bonds?
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    PME supply block of flats

    DNO tails are 70mm 3- phase and neutral on a 200a bs 1361 fuse.
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    PME supply block of flats

    Thanks Cliffed... so your saying if i just look at table 54.8 will that be the neutral in the SWA sub mains of the neutral of the incoming main supply
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    PME supply block of flats

    Hello Guys I have a 200a 3-phase supply PME bolted to a large ryefield panel, the ryefiled panel then supplies 14 flats within the same building. Each flat is supplied a 63a from ryefild via meters in the form of a 16mm 3core SWA cable. The furthest away is flat 14 at around 25 meters, seeing...
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    Arc damage metal socket front

    over the years I see this on a few occasions in kitchen where an arc strike is on the front face place in kitchens. Is there some strange science behind why this may be?
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    Meter tail upgrade what the hell

    UKPN came out for a client as I suggested they have their supply upgraded to 100a. My new tails are 25mm from the consumer side of the service double pole isolators. What I can’t understand is that UKPN won’t upgrade the head because the tails which I cannot touch (between the bottom service...
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    notifiable works in domestic

    I mainly do commercial work but would like to check on what is notifiable 1) DB change domestic 2) Alterations domestic bathroom 3) new circuit 4) are alternations to an existing circuit in a domestic notifiable?

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