few pictures from my recent jobs
Plumber didnt check the other side of the wall before drilling through(had a lucky escape though) and a recent CU change that leaves alot to be desired
Now I know this one may not count as it was in Spain, and everyone knows the quality of the electrical work over there but this was on a main public street on the main road into town
Thats my daughter in the picture
I had to have a look in the cupboard didnt I! as it was wide open and im never...
Lucky escape! found this in a ceiling void, nice VIR-PVC joint with crumbling insulation
Live conductor within a whisker of the bathroom towel rail pipework
“the ex husband has wired it all, he’s an electrician and it’s just a second fix to complete and test”
At this point, most experienced electricians would of had the hairs on the back of their neck stand up and they make their excuses and walk away at the first polite opportunity!
The previous...
Like above I use cat 5e SWA from house router to outbuilding, terminate to a rj45 socket plate, then if you want to create a new Wi-Fi zone in the outbuilding, plug one of these in to it
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I am wiring a garden room which will be a home office, customer wants wired ethernet points and wifi down there from the house router
Its too far for wifi to reach from the house
I have run an SWA cat 6 from the house router to an RJ45 socket on the wall of the garden room
Can I get a kind of...
Am I the only one who loathes these connectors and just removes them immediately
Apparently they also turn a class 1 light fitting into a class 2 light fitting, this is surely not compliant unless you only have a single cable supplying the light fitting, so then the connector can completely...
Its all well and good obtaining a bare bones set of quailfications but that would be the first part to a pile of other requirements, like working experience for a start
Your in it either with both feet or not at all im afraid
The hardest part is sometimes how you deal with what you find when...
a twin and earth went to an old MEM fuse isolator for the water heater and what looked like a few sets of about 4mm singles (in imperial size), to two 4way rewireable fuse boxes
Cant believe the meter guy wired them back up to a new meter and isolator, but hey at least the main bonding was done!
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