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  1. G

    Always sad to hear.......

    BBC News - Llandudno fire: Electrics warning after short circuit starts blaze
  2. O

    Is it always the sparkies fault?????

    Been doing a job on and off for a few weeks, mainly because the chap doing the building works isn't very good at estimating times to achieve tasks. As a result, there has been the odd day where I've not been able to get on site to do work as the building work isn't ready for me then when he's...
  3. S

    Refused Credit

    I'm fuming - I've been refused credit by a supplier that I use regularly. It seems it's ok for me to pay them not knowing whether they will supply the goods but not vice versa. I dont need the credit but I like to get the goods check they are ok then I pay the same day they are delivered. I...
  4. C

    Best cabling solution for External Socket

    Hi all I need to run some cabling for an external socket in a garden. The cabling will be run around the walls and will not be buried. The cable will need to pass throught an 18" solid wall and there will be a number of turns before the final destincation. What do you think is the best...
  5. J

    The customer is always right!!!

    Hello all, I've been a member for a while but i think this is my third post, just trying to get a little more familiar with the forum, so, would like to hear any good stories about any customers who think the regs are exempt in their house!! I know I've had a few.
  6. imago

    Customer "Can you give me a quote?"

    Me "Certainly. What do you need doing?" Customer "A cooker point installed." "OK. I'll drop by on my way home and have a look." Arrive at customer's house to find that there is an empty room which will be the kitchen when its been installed. "So, where abouts will the cooker be?" "I don't...
  7. E

    Special installation in a special location

    Found while doing an EICR today - see picture. OK- its just outside Zone 1 by a few mm, but the storage rad circuits are not RCD protected and there's no supplementary bonding in the bathroom. I disconnected it, then got told "it doesn't work anyway" ..... I guess it got wet! However, worse...
  8. E

    Cut-out fuse shared by 2 properties

    Hi All, Been to look at a job, where customer wants to install 9.5kw shower. 3 Bed 2 storey flat. Calculating the load on board at present with diversity comes out at 68.8A, if the shower was added calculations came to 94.6A. Looking in the meter cupboard, the supply splits to 2 meters after...
  9. A

    Is This A RCCB Fault?

    Good evening all! I have discovered this evening (whils't re-setting the RCD) that when applying light pressure to the RCCB in my Crabtree Starbreaker CU, the connection into the busbar arcs severely and all circuits on this side of the CU flicker. I have tried re-seating the RCCB but has made...
  10. J

    NICEIC Certification Scheme NICEIC Rant

    Hi folks Hope you don't mind but I could with a bit of a rant following yesterdays niceic visit. In some ways it couldnt have gone any better, everything was in order both in terms of paper work and on the jobs we looked at. He made one or two nit-picky comments, fair enough, I don't really...
  11. E

    bonding structural steel buried within fabric of building

    was in a half finished house today that has just had an extension built on it, and i was suprised to see 10mm bonding to the steel RSJs that span the garage and where the kitchen has been knocked through and at the front where a porch has been created. traced them back to the MET, have all been...
  12. S

    When the customer is always right

    I'm not sure whether yesterday was a good or bad day...............got to the job and the customers starts telling us how we're going to do it and how we are going to re-fit his solar thermal where he want's it or we are not doing the job. Within ten minutes he was left on his doorstep with...
  13. A

    testing

    Hi all If i have extended a circuit i/e added a low voltage fan to a lighting circuit or extended a ringmain into a conservatory, do i need to give a test cert for the work i have carried out or for the whole circuit. I have been given conflicting advice so a bit confused. Thanks all
  14. grimysparks80

    Honeywell room stat orange light always on.

    Hi guys. Tomorrow im going to a job where the orange light on the honeywell thermostat is always on faintly and comes on properly when the room stat is turned up. I have seen this loads of times and i think its getting a back feed from the 3 port valve. I have tried to explain to the customer...
  15. C

    16mm meter tails, do they always need upgrading

    just a quick question folks, when changing a mains do u have to upgrade the tails to 25mm and earth to 16mm, at the min there is 16mm tails live and nutral and neutral and the main earth is 10mm,<br>it is a tncs system and the ze is 0.16, gas and water are also bonded with 10mm,<br>do they need...
  16. S

    PIR question

    First of all I'm not even sure if this needs to be marked down or not! I'm about to do a PIR on a friends property and whilst checking out another bit of work needing done I noticed that the main water service has just been bonded with a 10mm earth linked off the gas pipe and linked between all...
  17. J

    Not enough practical experience when infrequently testingl

    last time i passed my 2391 was ten years ago,since then i have had about 2weeks testing experience 5years ago and it is amazing how much you can forget unless you are testing on a fairly frequent basis.Or have a bloody good memory!!!!.Thats why dedicated testers always seem to be very quick.I...
  18. grimysparks80

    Sleeving, grommets and other lazy faults

    Im getting really sick of going to jobs that have been done in the last few years where the electrician hasnt used sleeving, grommets ect. Im finding it very rare for electricians to bother with this stuff. Ive spent the last couple of months going round putting right and checking jobs done by...
  19. B

    Megger 1720 R1 + R2 function

    hi all , just got this new tester today ,quite impressed with the r1 r2 function using zref , doing PIR's at the moment and wondered what your thoughts were on using the r1 + r2 functions results on a cert , after verifying continuity of cpc and whether or not the zref can be stored ? cheers ps...
  20. R

    Testing help

    Morning all! Just completed my two jobs for my NIC assessment. Confident in my work and all of my test results etc. Anyway assessor had a cancellation so has booked me in for this friday so just wanted to double check a few things that are playin on me a bit. Nothing major but just wanted to...

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