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  1. Dartlec

    Feed to flat in escape route - best option?

    I was thinking surface mounted for most of the run, just the bit that passes through the wooden staircase in something. With a small van and just me I'd prefer not to fiddle with metal trunking, though may be that I need to bite the bullet and go for it... Cost is certainly an issue since it's...
  2. Dartlec

    Feed to flat in escape route - best option?

    it's the imperial equivalent of 16mm or so from memory
  3. Dartlec

    Feed to flat in escape route - best option?

    Vertical from under stair cupboard on ground floor up through half landings on the first and second flight of stairs (wooden) and then horizontally across wall and into the flat.. I was thinking of possibly chasing a channel out to go from bottom to top of the mini stair landing it needs to...
  4. Dartlec

    Landing Light Switch gone wrong

    Thanks for the pictures, that does help somewhat, though still a little confusing and really needs some more testing to narrow things down. Firstly, if you don't have every circuit off, assume every cable is live until you can prove otherwise (with a method other than touching them!) Wagos are...
  5. Dartlec

    Best practice guide 4 update

    Bets in on what code for Type A RCDs (I'm guessing C3 for now at worst, maybe C2 if fault protection by RCD), and AFDDs where they are mandated (likely C3 for now too I would expect)
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    Feed to flat in escape route - best option?

    I have a job coming up where I likely need to replace old twin and earth (imperial size) feeding one, perhaps two flats in a 3 storey converted building. The ground floor is a separate front entrance, the upper flats have a side entrance with stairwell, which is protected with smoke and EL...
  7. Dartlec

    Landing Light Switch gone wrong

    Picture of the switch you removed would definitely help. How many gang switches are there upstairs and downstairs and how many in the switch you replaced. The middle one may have been an intermediate switch, which can get confusing if you've not worked with them before. Were the brown and...
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    Assistance with my installation

    I'd like to know this too - wonder if anyone has collated such events via FOI request or similar. Since it is regularly raised as a potential risk in guides etc, I'd like to know just how often it happens so that I can make a well informed risk assessment on certain types of job. (For avoidance...
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    Assistance with my installation

    Which 3 out of interest? It may well be a myth - or there might be one somewhere, since it always seems to come up in articles/guides on the issue. Of course, if something were to happen and the HSE were involved, they might claim something different in that specific case, so it's good to have...
  10. Dartlec

    Assistance with my installation

    Couple of questions: Is the outbuilding separate from the house, or attached? If separate are there any extraneous conductive parts? (water feed, metal structure, etc) Is there a particular reason to want to 'make it compliant', or just for your own peace of mind? There is a useful guide here...
  11. Dartlec

    Own up , who done it....

    Looks like Yahoo lifted it from the Mirror, or vice versa - but in the Mirror's version: the 52-year-old has admitted that the father of the electrician responsible for the work drove 50 miles from London to Sittingbourne, Kent to apologise for his "unqualified" son's work. Which doesn't...
  12. Dartlec

    Sockets on a lighting circuit - C3 or C2?

    Thanks for the thoughts - it's always interesting to see other's views and 'calibrate' my decisions so that I'm happy I'm not too strict or too lax on EICRs. In this case I think I'll still blank them - it's an unstaffed HMO with quite short term tenants that has had problems before with...
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    Sockets on a lighting circuit - C3 or C2?

    Fun EICR at an HMO today, which was installed new 5 years ago (not particularly well!) Lots of niggly things that I'll sort, but in the kitchen cupboards were two unswitched sockets which confused me for a while. Turns out they are connected to the lighting circuit, switched by their own...
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  17. Dartlec

    Can anyone help with What code on this

    Several wholesalers near me seem to be switching over to pushing Fusebox, including CEF - which is nice for me...
  18. Dartlec

    remedial work after EICR.

    Personally, I think there are two issues that often get confused with domestic EICRs. IMO the box that says "extent of the electrical installation" should always cover 100% of circuits on a domestic EICR, unless there is a very good reason and it's listed as an operational limitation. Even if a...
  19. Dartlec

    Can anyone help with What code on this

    AC RCDs will largely only be useful for things like immersion heaters or purely resistive loads once AMD 2 comes in. I'm waiting for ESF to update their Best Practice Guide 4 to see what they say about EICRs. My guess is that they will go with C3 where the RCD supplies modern appliances with...
  20. Dartlec

    Queries with EICRs to AMD 2

    Yes looks like you are right! Though to be fair, AMD 1 only had EV stuff in it, so probably didn't change anything to do with testing? Still if they couldn't even update it for that, who knows when it will be updated to AMD2! Not sure a prosecution under the act would ever get that far for...

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