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  1. Midwest

    Looped supply through garage? Look ok?

    Never seen anything like this before, although from whats been said seems common? Doesn't seem right, that your neighbours supply is in your property. Neighbours supply, and not DNO's cable. Seems a bit of a DNO bodge to me?
  2. Midwest

    UK Housebashing wiring helped

    What is the room where your going to locate CU/CCU/DB/FuseBox? Could you run circuits/tails in plastic trunking? You do need to think about Notification, which Country do you live in?
  3. Midwest

    Near death electric shock

    Think all electricians will/have received a belt in their time. Doesn't matter how many time you read something like this, and are told to L-N N-E E-L etc etc, we are human and prone to mistakes. @ETradesmen, quick thinking about jumping, probably saved your life.
  4. Midwest

    Can I get work certified

    I'm not current on that, others will help. But like all manufacturers Hager do pre-populated boards, some include SPD's. Its not really worth NOT getting SPD's. I think AFDD's are a recommendation at the moment, but they are silly money relatively, and your CU would need to be twice the size.
  5. Midwest

    Can I get work certified

    SPD's are cheap as chips relatively, and I think you find a requirement, unless you can risk access away?
  6. Midwest

    Can I get work certified

    I had done 5 years back on the 'tools' and been registered with a Scheme for that time. Which was then even more annoying, when a year later, when I was no longer registered with a Scheme, my LBC didn't know how to accept my qualifications, and then suggested the EICR. Which is nuts really, as I...
  7. Midwest

    Can I get work certified

    I was in a similar boat. I contacted three different Napit Third Party Certifiers, only one was interested, but that never materialised into anything. Guess it’s more hassle than it’s worth. My LBC was happy with an EICR, but it was all part of a Building Notice, and my electrical work was...
  8. Midwest

    RCD fused spur units . Which ??/

    Weren't those BS standard of RCD decreed as not acceptable for additional protection, if thats what its being used for?
  9. Midwest

    The Future of Fuse boards...?

    The penetration of plasterboard and the like and its return to original state, when installing cables, has always been on my mind when carrying out an install. To the extent, I came to fitting intumescent collars around extract fans installed in plasterboard ceilings, and I only ever fitted fire...
  10. Midwest

    New rewire and fuse board - views on work.

    Not up to dated on the latest regs on RCBO's use in design, but the date of design can sometimes dictate on which of the particular revision of BS7671, is used for the installation. And whilst BS7671 is not statutory, a lot of other legislation, ESQC, Part P etc, refers to it as a standard to...
  11. Midwest

    The Future of Fuse boards...?

    You‘ve lost me, but I think we’ve discussed this enough now.
  12. Midwest

    The Future of Fuse boards...?

    Hands across the table and all that, but it does 🙂
  13. Midwest

    The Future of Fuse boards...?

    The video shows a Hager cu, without any flames coming out the plastic glands, plastic trunking entries and for that matter the flappy cu door. But nor does it show them coming out of the plastic cu, it just melts and drops burning debris everywhere. I don’t get your first point in your second...
  14. Midwest

    EICR done in 2 stages?

    I had a conundrum when I changed my garage to a habitable space. I contacted 3 sparks for third party certification, and I got a responce from one, which never materialised in anything. Perhaps that sort of work is just too much hassle for little reward. Not sure why you worried about your ch...
  15. Midwest

    EICR done in 2 stages?

    Part P was brought into being like other Building Regulations, 'was to provide practical guidance for some of the more common building situations, .........place a legal requirement for safety upon electrical installation work in dwellings'. Part P defines how notification can be carried out...
  16. Midwest

    The Future of Fuse boards...?

    Really, I thought it was about 'as far as is reasonably practicable, to contain any fire within the enclosure or cabinet and to minimise the escape of flames' which, if you accept that argument, means you need to do something the moveable flap on the front of a CU. As most manufacturers seem to...
  17. Midwest

    The Future of Fuse boards...?

    You've appear to have copied & paste some lines in your reply. If you could citations. Edit IET. I'm no longer up to date on BS7671, so I'll tilt my hat to you. If you going to spend time and money 'to seal all openings', what are you going to do with the big flap on the front of a consumer...
  18. Midwest

    EICR done in 2 stages?

    Yes it does seem nonsensical. I think the whole drive for regulating who should carry out electrical work, via Part P, was to stop untrained & unqualified people carrying out electrical work, in domestic properties. You don't see or hear many 'YouTube' trained companies working in the...
  19. Midwest

    The Future of Fuse boards...?

    I might be wrong, but when 421.1.201 first came out in the BYB, it was about removing the source of fuel for a fire, and nothing to do with containment of a fire. Has this recently changed?
  20. Midwest

    EICR done in 2 stages?

    I think the OP is doing the electrical work himself (as said in #2), and has been open with that to his LBC? The LBC, as normal, do not know how to deal with this, and have suggested an EICR, which will allow a final Competition Certificate to be supplied by them, when the whole project is...

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