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  1. Dave Jenkins

    Anyone come across a wall filled with sand?

    Was most bizarre... poured out the wall like an egg timer.....
  2. Dave Jenkins

    Anyone come across a wall filled with sand?

    Took a socket off an old house and sand poured out!
  3. Dave Jenkins

    Looking for some advice please

    Just to lob my own stone in the pond....was ELECSA, now STROMA. Nothing wrong with ELECSA but now I'm semi-retired so need to reduce costs. STROMA assessments are more stringent and their back-up ain't so good - 20 minutes hanging on the phone is typical. That said, STROMA is a far larger...
  4. Dave Jenkins

    Advice on working for myself

    Get yourself a good accountant too....will save you money long term!
  5. Dave Jenkins

    Advice on working for myself

    Here's one for you that I've found to be really useful: I keep a daily record of journeys - date, mileage, destination, time out, time in.. Perhaps a tad over the top but invaluable if you can't remember where you've been on a particular date...
  6. Dave Jenkins

    Overheard in a diy store

    Similarly overheard in one of the sheds - "All the ovens we sell can be fitted with a plug top"! (Whatever a plug top is)
  7. Dave Jenkins

    DIY Dave strikes again!

    'Kin ell!
  8. Dave Jenkins

    DIY Dave strikes again!

    Recently came across a downstairs cloakroom in which all the lights, switches and extractor fan had been connected up with bell wire... including a weird microswitch arrangement for turning on the fan when the door opened...
  9. Dave Jenkins

    EICR classifcation remedial work form

    Interesting point.. surely you wouldn't repeat the entire report? That makes no sense...
  10. Dave Jenkins

    EICR classifcation remedial work form

    Well that's what I'd do..but await further advice from the honourable members here gathered..... There's quite a number of issues raised...some I'd disagree with. Eg car park lights....
  11. Dave Jenkins

    EICR classifcation remedial work form

    I'm not an expert in this area, but what constituted the repair? I.e. if the repair generated a MEIWC (for example) then I'd make a note on that....clearly you can't annotate the original EICR..
  12. Dave Jenkins

    EICR Test Results mostly left blank

    Glad you've said that - thought it was me being slow!
  13. Dave Jenkins

    EICR Test Results mostly left blank

    Mornin' I did a small job for a client earlier in the week and told her I need to complete a Minor Works cert - as you do.. She said that she didn't need one because she had this - waving an EICR under my nose. Looking through the document, it all looked good until the last page - test results...
  14. Dave Jenkins

    cheapest place for van insurance

    A-Plan was cheaper by far than ELECSA...
  15. Dave Jenkins

    Which cable rod set to buy

    Pressed the wrong tick....sorry! I've amended the error of my ways.....
  16. Dave Jenkins

    Electric shocks from a light switch in the kitchen due to humidity, condensation

    Moisture inside the switch enclosure - sounds like a damp-proof course issue to me...had a very similar problem with a socket buried in a solid wall. There was so much moisture that the socket wall box had actually partially rusted away...and tracking across the face of the socket giving...
  17. Dave Jenkins

    3 gang, Two-way Light Switch has two circuits

    Ey up, Did a quote for re-wiring a kitchen. That was straightforward enough but the client wanted replacement dimmer switches fitting to an existing 3 gang, light switch. OK, easy enough, but he's had an extension to the back of the house providing a large dining area off the kitchen. Whoever...
  18. Dave Jenkins

    Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

    Surely that's not real? Got to be a wind up.... Imagine putting a socket like that - not straight!
  19. Dave Jenkins

    Bad experience having isolator switch fitted by Scottish Power/Actavo

    I saw Western Power fit an isolator - as you say he put on his bomb-proof suit and helmet to carry out the work...Consumer Unit wasn't even fitted so no load whatsoever... He wasn't a qualified electrician either!
  20. Dave Jenkins

    Bad experience having isolator switch fitted by Scottish Power/Actavo

    Client of mine requested Scottish power to fit an isolator so we could change the board. Nobody turned up on the day and chasing up SP they said they no longer fitted isolators... So OP posting disappointing but not surprising....

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