Not once but twice. That cable is to an old coughtree corner light who would imagine the cable would have taken that route? Just popping in a few cameras and light stopped working. had to dig out the cable bit by bit. Actually managed to get a bullseye on the cable twice, wow! Oh by the way at...
had a call yesterday customer telling me the cooker has gone of and could I look at it .well now the customer tells me that every time he put on the out side lights (XMAS) ones the old string lights the type you find on the Blackpool front ,that the their is a fault .
so me was thinking ok...
today on my email address arrives this video from one friend..he asked me to see the video and to comment what i think of it..after watching it I was impressed and to be honest im not sure if I have to believe it or not..when I watched the video, it looks like it works perfectly..what do you...
hiya lads
now be gentle as i would like some guidence
one of my friends has 8 flats that he rented out through an agent so as far as he was led to believe everything was being done correctly. After a letter from one of his tenants through an organisation called frontine issues were brought to...
Following on from recent events in France and burkini-gate, I'm interested in your opinions.
I've got my views which I'm sure I'll chip in with later, but for now, as the title suggests, what are your thoughts and why?
Dear Everyone.
I myself am not an electrician, that's why I'm here.
I've got a Baby Belling style cooker that rather spectacularly blew its plug fuse a couple of days ago - took out the entire plug circuit. I've got the plug sockets working again, but now of course I have no cooker!
Is it...
Can anyone recommend a decent quality work polo shirt supplier, with printing &/or logo. Given up buying local, as the quality is poor, fades in the wash, buttons fall off & they seem to shrink!
Did a forum search, which didn't have any hits, which I find hard to believe?
Hi all not posted for a while been busy and going through a divorce:hurray:
been to a job today to fit alarm system, in a new build just been finished,
opened c/u to find neutral tails done in 10 x 2.5mm singles all crammed in and earth done in about 6 x 2.5mm singles,
these run for about 6...
Swapping an old mess of a fuse board with items added everywhere etc, I'll post pic if can figure out how but.
Just after "the magic cut out tail fairy" left and I'm mid way through updating tails etc guess who arrived next door.
The ****ing meter man to read next doors meter I was praying he...
To my absolute amazement the DB and all circuits illustrated above have I am informed been tested to 17th edition standard. How many 17th edition problems can you spot here? I am wary of just how many other issues will be discovered when I start doing a few circuit tests of my own! Though I have...
Hi,
Gpt a call from Axa insurance the other day asking how much it would cost to connect a cooker because the cable is damaged... I said £40 probably..
i said why did you call me, they said we like to source local trades people to claims. Ok cool.
i went this morning, just of it is, someone...
Ok so i know nothing about UK prices as Ive been in Spain for 24 years and not even visited the UK for 5 years but cant believe these are so cheap
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I finally had a brain wave and used Wagos for central heating. I did it after realising i only had pieces of connector strip and not a whole strip and i thought it would look naff. Hunted through the van and found my wago box and voila i shall never go back
I was booked into go to a customers house in London travelling from north of oxford, last Thursday she delayed saying the builder wasn't ready best make it Tuesday instead so I phoned this afternoon at 3:00 just to check everything was ok no answer then a text a minute later oh so sorry the...
Hi guys,
does anyone know of a company that repairs megger multi testers in dorset.?
Would be good if they are cheap and don't keep my tester for 4 weeks!
I have a query,
Im working on some signage that is connected to a PME supply. This is supplied to a leb header by straight concentric 16mm cable and then to and RCD with outgoing circuits to the sign.
Now I have just seen that work by others have been carried out in the form of doubling up on...
in a cafe at present working and is a load of stainless steel in one corner for washing up etc..
i want to do a test to see if needs bonding
im nearly certain i I r test from earth isco to stainless steel in question and test @ 500vdc and if under 22k ohms it should be bonded,
is this info...
Just been looking on Newey,s web site and the actually have a help section with advice on such matters as selecting the right joint box and other basic wiring matters.somewhat worrying don,t you think?
Hi,
A few will remember a thread in December where a sparky had done some work at my parents house had done a lousy job.
He had SWA going straight in to the main board unsupported, two strands of the steel were in a terminal block and went to the earth bar. This is two core wire, the sole CPC...
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