This is all conjecture, you may well be right, but I don't believe that a contractor is considered an employee for this sort of thing. If I contracted you for some research and the secrecy of it was it important to me then I would certainly put that into a contract, so that if you gave it to...
This is an interesting point Julie, personally I think it comes down to copyright, ie, you commission me to undertake an electrical inspection of a property, obviously I’m contractually bound to issue a copy of the report to you, but who owns the copyright? My take would be that unless it was...
Not sure about that James, if you found a C1 and did not inform the tenant, by way of an electrical danger notification, or temporary repair and informing the tenant, and then someone was hurt, I think you may well find yourself in court.
I was replying to this question Loz
'what's the correct course of action if you're doing an EICR for a non occupier i.e landlord/buyer and you fjnd C1s and C2s? Are you under any moral (or legal) obligation to tell the current occupants ?'
He mentions landlord. It's not a comment on his...
You should get this looked at by an electrician asap Theo. It won't be static of the taps and could be dangerous.You can't tell from the photos whether it needs bonding and I'm not sure what the earth cable is doing there. As I say you need an electrician.
Your contract is with whoever commissioned you to undertake the report. However any C1 should be made safe before leaving the property and I would definitely bring any temporary repair to the attention of tennent.
As others have said, nothing wrong with this method, I too was taught this method 40 years ago. compared to choc box connectors it's far superior, but a lot more time consuming.
Also, YouTube is global, so you will see working practices from around the world, I don't think it's for YouTube to...
You need to forget the fact that it's a board, you have a circuit (the supply to the board) without a cpc. Therefore ADS is not being met. The Zs is too high and there is no earth fault protection. Code 2.
None of the final circuit from the board will have acceptable Zs or disconnection times...
I don't know why the price is so high other than demand, they do seem to sell well, but they are good for the job. I'm sure there's a market there to exploit.
I'll second that Mike, after owning a martindale ET4500 for 2 years, not liking the soft case but liking the tester I ordered a Fluke case for it. I paid over £40 just for the case but I'm glad I did now. I have no idea why other manufacturers don't do something similar.
Then on the face of it that's fine for the supply to the hob isolator. Most 13a appliances come already flexed, so I'm assuming that's the case here and the flex goes to the isolator. Or are you saying this is 2.5 T&E also.
Whatever, no need for 4mm, and it has nothing to do with part p.
I agree Mike, I already use 3a mcbs if possible (it nearly always is) to get around my perennial argument with my assessor regarding protection for fans.
As above. Simply put, you shouldn't just use an rcd to cover up a high Zs, it's normally needed for a high Ze, normally a TT circuit. If you have a good Ze but not getting acceptable disconnection time, this will need investigating and rectifying.
Domestic installations in T&E I only ever use 1mm now, with LED lights there should be no need for anything else.
Of course, normal design constraints will apply.
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