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    Curious sequence of events

    When we went on holidays I would turn off the boiler at the FCU on return would turn it back on to find there was no supply it had blown the fuse in the PCB this happened a few times, this was a Baxi 105 not sure if I was turning it back on when it was calling for heat that might have pushed it...
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    Scottish Power metering

    There was no concerns he just said it had to be inspected first. so I looked at it and cut the seal and switched on the isolator, pointless exercise.
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    Scottish Power metering

    He said it was standard practice. don't know if they were warned about this beforehand, you don't always get the full story.
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    Scottish Power metering

    Just been called by a customer who has had their meter changed by Scottish Power, the operative would not switch the supply back on saying that the consumer unit needed to be checked by a qualified electrician and then sealed off the isolator with wire and crimp. This is a two year old house...
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    Texecom Veritas alarm Tamper light

    If you do not have an external sounder in circuit you will have to link out the tamper return to negative.
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    UK Storage heater rawl plugs

    There was an instance whereby a thermostat had malfunctioned and the casing became red hot and melted the plastic plugs. Probably in the day before thermal cut outs were introduced thats why we were told to use fibre plugs.
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    New consumer unit - Necessary to replace existing grey tails ?

    Cant see a problem done it myself many times, correctly colour coded and not damaged so as to impair integrity then fine.
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    Help with damaged underground cables

    I would let your insurance deal with it.
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    Exposed copper wire under the floorboards after rewire

    Of course everybody is assuming that the exposed terminals are part of the rewire and not the original wiring. Just saying.
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    New one on me

    No everything was checked, switched through the live side of course. Have seen induced voltage create flashing in LED's but never seen it stop one lighting before.
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    New one on me

    Was called to a lighting fault yesterday, the lounge light would sometimes switch off when another light was switched on, easy I thought a loose feed in a switch or ceiling rose checked connections all okay problem persisted turned my attention to the lamps all were compact fluos except the...
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    What is the purpose of the multi9 contactors

    Electratech pioneered by Norweb installed hundreds back in the eighties.
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    Question for the more mature among us

    I was told the lights were there because dressing tables were placed in front of the windows.
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    Stroma Certification Scheme Eic not recognised- qualification

    Be aware, if the letting agent is guided by the PRS they will not accept a certificate from anybody who is not on that list.
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    RCD tripping overnight with nothing connected

    Or a loose connection.
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    Dangerous Video Youtube won't remove: Join electrical cables the pretty way

    Me too I think they were called Marriage joints.
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    Elecsa brand being retired

    I think ECA own Certsure.
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    Why £330+Vat

    wristband my man you've got to have a wristband
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    Why £330+Vat

    Yes because doing EICR are really challenging?
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    Why £330+Vat

    The problem is as I have encountered is if you do a cert for a customer and get paid they then present it to the letting agent who refuses to accept it because you are not on the list, you have an angry customer who cant let his house until he gets a cert from someone on the list..

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