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    What qualifications are required to work on domestic buildings?

    Hi Everyone, I would like to first start off with a little about myself, I am 19, live in Scotland, 3.5 Years through my apprenticeship as an electrical technician in the oil and gas industry. I currently have my HNC in electrical engineering and am about to complete my SVQ level 3 in...
  2. Worcester

    Old Buildings, EPC's Insulation Improvements and the RHI payments

    Quite a few of our clients have large, old, high heat load buildings. So having the EPC done at the correct time is critical to get the right RHI payments. If the building has already or can't have cavity wall insulation and has 250mm of Loft insulation (or can't have it done), then the EPC as...
  3. J

    Problems with more than one rcd

    Hi all, just wondering if anyone with a lot of experience had any thoughts on this; I've seen on farms that are usually tt earthed the mains come in and through an s type time delay rcd and then sub mains go to different buildings which are protected by standard 30ma rcds. Sometimes faults in...
  4. Mark.W

    PME for farm buildings

    Hi chaps In need of some advice please! I'm on a job at the moment (installing 50kw PV) where the customer is upgrading his supply with Western Power! He currently has a 100A 3ph supply and his new supply will be 250A 3ph! The customer has a dairy farm! The existing earthing arrangement is...
  5. P

    Mains Gas earthing

    Have a friend that's currently working on a church complex, building 1 is fed via a 3ph head with the gas meter being located within this building, building 2 is totally seperate and has its own 100amp single phase head and meter. The problem being building 2's gas supply is from building 1...
  6. Midwest

    PME supplies to emote buildings

    I've previously posted about doing a CU replacement for my assessment. I will also have to re-supply a small garage CU (20a radial + 6a lighting), which has been answer for me, thank you. The property has a TN-C-S supply, which will be fed with new 25mm tails, 16mm EC. The garage is link...
  7. M

    95 mm 4 core cable, 30 m run, in ducting under buildings backed up by 200 amp fuses

    Hi all, I commissioned the renewal of some mains intake equipment at a building that involved a full shut down. The building runs 24/7 and so a shut down is a VERY rare event. Upon completion of the works the contractor informed me that the 95mm 4 core cable feeding the building was being...
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    Rewiring Grade 2 listed buildings

    Evening fellas Just won a job rewiring a 5 bed detached grade 2 listed farmhouse, as u would expect the LABC have severe limitations on what the developer can do to the building, when I asked him if they mentioned any specific spec for rewiring he said he didn't know, have any if you guys had...
  9. Y

    Buildings not requiring EPCs

    Effective yesterday (9/1/13) DCLG (Dept for Communities and Local Government), officially exempted a range of buildings from needing an EPC: Not sure if I can post a link - search for: "A guide to energy performance certificates for the construction, sale and let of dwellings", relevant bit is...
  10. S

    Farmhouse supplied from farm buildings

    Hello, The normal PME etc query i see on the forum relates to the farm buildings supplied from the house where the house runs on PME and the farm on TT with local earth rods. In this case, the supply is terminated to the the farm which has a PME supply, should the farm CU & final loads be...
  11. D

    two buildings into one

    Hi guys. been asked to look at a job where two buildings have been made into one, where a building as been erected in between and combined to make one building. been like this for a while and had numerous inspections and passed.now recently its had ecir done and failed because there are two...
  12. M

    3 Farm buildings

    Hi iv been asked to wire 3 farm buildings. The sub mains have to be RCD protected, Do i 300ma Main swt first ccu rcbo's 100 Ma second and use rcbo's and 30ma main swt and mcb's ccu? Any suggestions would be helpful iv red the green book and me head is hurting lol i could use a 100 ma upfront...
  13. S

    VAT change to charitable buildings from 1st August 2012

    A small knock thanks to the EU - VAT for buildings used for charitable purposes will be exempt from reduced VAT for green products. Not coming in until 1st August 2013 unless it gets overturned. Village halls lose out as EU clamps down on green goods tax break - 24 Aug 2012 - News from...
  14. N

    EPC listed building (church)

    I am quoting on a ground mount array at the rear of a chapel, its 100's of years old, in a conservation area and listed as well, these are being addressed by my customer however obviously there is isent a cat in hells chance that this church with stained glass windows etc will get a D rating...
  15. S

    Exporting PME to outbuildings

    Hi all, Just wanted to run this past some people, its for a little job im doing (possibly by moonlight). The property has recently (yesterday) been converted to PME when the DNO changed the cut-out. It is a farm and ususally around here they will not give PME to farms. The old service was TNS...
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    Branch circuits to buildings

    Hopefully a quick and easy one... Ive had a look through the regs but the only version this company give us is a .PDF format and its really annoying trying to look through it on the computer so hoping one of you Reg masters can help me out. Right...For example lets says we have four...
  17. S

    2 x 4kw arrays on 2 x MPAN's on 2 x buildings but one owner

    I know this has been posted about before but I am not 100% sure reading the posts. 2 meters registered to one address. One meter in house and one in a building some way away with independent supplies. Outbuilding has direct connection to the power lines over pole. Looks like only single phase...
  18. S

    let's ask our local coucils to use PV for their buildings

    As most of us are struggling for work whilst we all know PV makes perfect financial sense...let's ask our local council to install PV systems on their local building! This obviously means saving public money in teh longer term, whilst it can revive local renewable energy companies! What do you...
  19. V

    Multiple gen meters MCS CERT Question:

    Hi Guys, Got a 10Kwp install to do, split over 3 phase on two buildings next to each other. i will have 3 single phase inverters, connecting into a different phase each. I will put 3 x single gen meters (one fore each inverter) as each building has its own sub main. How would i go about...
  20. S

    EPC on commercial buildings

    I am booked onto a DEA course in a couple of weeks so we can do our own EPC's. But it just so happens our first job agreed post 1st April is on a commercial building. I assume i wont be able to do the EPC on this building or am i wrong? So looks like we will have to sub out our first EPC for...

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