ive been asked to qoute to fit 12 6ft florescents and 12 double socket outlets.
there is existing trunking. they want every point to be suspended from trunking.
materials cost around £1,200
qouted £2,500 all in.
there could be a bit of faffing about with towers for 2 of the fittings...
Phil 7677 called around for a coffee and a catch up before heading off to Asda for the end of the day reduced items. I went along to pick up some beer and fresh veg for Sundays dinner.
"Whoops" sticker on a load off pre-packed salad boxes, from £1.50 now 15p! Phil picked up a few. At the...
Evening
I know the regs say that cables buried less than 50mm in a wall or partition need to be mechanically, or rcd protected, but if these circuits arent rcd protected what does everyone do when they extend a circuit?
Add RCBO's? or mechanically protect the added cable?
Not just for sockets...
hi guys,
as a old time spark thats been at it 30 years i picked up the proffesional electricians mag in the wholesalers, got quite a shock when i read about the costs involved in pv one guy had wrote in saying he had laid out £1000 s of pounds just to get is msc accreditation and then says he...
Whilst working in a new customers house recently I came across a Distribution Board fed by the upstairs ringmain. It has 2 x 2.5 T&E's feeding it, I've checked it is on the ring by switching the ring off, disconnecting the feeds and testing for ring continuity. I am not going any further with...
Can anyone recommend a good but fairly chepar software programme for pv? I've looked at PVsyst and it's not really what I want. PV sol is expensive and looks quite complicated. What I really want is something that will produce the diagrams and monthly assumptions as well as matching all...
After news of a local van breaking near me, we are looking to step-up security in our work vans.
At the moment im taking expensive items out of the van at night and keeping them in the house. (drills, testers, etc..) pain in the --- but at the mo better safe than sorry.
Any suggestions...
as the title led flood lights, has anyone used them yet? good or bad, only uses 3 watts cheap enough to buy but i can`t be bothered stuck up a ladder to have to take it down the next day if it`s rubbish.
Mrs's boss bin asking me about installing a 3 phase sunbed in his salon but only got single phase coming in
From your experience is it expensive to get supply company to upgrade. I have very little knowledge on this subject as i do house bashing
Not sure if this is the right section or not.
I priced for a job yesterday to fit a new double socket. There were no sockets nearby that I could come from etc and reckoned that the job would take 2 hours max plus a couple of lengths of YT2, double pattress and a double socket, test and cert...
I have just been asked to fit an additional socket to an existing ring main. The problem i have is the board is the old wylex rewirable fuse type.. and to keep up with regs and RCD protection on sockets etc, is their a device you can put in place of the re-wirable fuse with rcd protection, for...
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