I've been given a job to rewire an upstairs flat and change the CU. I had a quick look around and everything is pretty straight forward except for the CU.
The existing CU is located in the small entry hall way at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the flat. It is mounted at high level...
Hi everyone,
I am looking for an electrician who can work with pyro cable, which seems to be a massive challenge as everyone I have spoken to so far either does not know how, or does not have the tools any more.
Is there anyone in the West London area who can help with this? I am based HA4 -...
Helped a couple of youngsters out the other day,a real overspec of installing pyros to light fittings in trunking in late 70's,kinda mad,one of the ends came off,youngsters had new pyro glands,but the orig are imperial,so struggled with fitting them.
Old timer soon sorted that,used orig pot &...
As an afterthought from the Buck House thread, when I mentioned it would probably be a MICC install, several people mentioned they would give their back teeth to work with differing sizes of MICC, prompted me to ask the question "What's the largest size MICC you have worked with"? Singles or...
Hi,
I'm changing a CU in a church hall fed by a 16mm2 x 2 core MICC (pyro) cable using the sheaf as an earth.
I think I'l get away with unhooking the old CU and threading the cable through a knockout and reclamping. But, just in case I screw up I've been trying to track down a gland kit to...
Hello all,
I'm in the early stages of pricing up/designing a large job which involves the complete renovation and rewiring of an old church. It's a large building (will hold a few hundred people) and they are possibly looking at rewiring parts of it (mainly where there is original stonework and...
I was thinking back to my youth, or more correctly my early days as a Sparky after completing my Apprenticeship, and having to carry out a MICC termination without the requisite MICC tooling, I had to do one end,only a small one, can't recall the exact size but it was on a lighting circuit. Any...
just done an EICR where the CU is supplied by a 2 core 6mm MICC CABLE. The main Earth connection was bodged using a copper clip with a bit of 2.5mm cable attached to the outer sheath. Obviously that's coming out. My question is whether it's permissible to use an Earth clamp on the outer sheath...
Evening Gents,
Does anyone has conversion chart for MICC cables Imperial to metric , I have to admit I am not an authority when it comes to MICC.
Thanks
Sparky 63
Looking for someone with experience of terminating large MICC cables up to 240mm. If anyone is interested in the give me a private message. Work is in London.
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I have a low IR reading on a lighting circuit - the circuit is 50 years old - i believe the fault is at the pot connection as there has been a downpour of water on this connection - I was going strip back the sheath and identify the point where the IR reading...
I need a few metres of 2L1 or 2L1.5 plus glands, seals, clips, etc to replace a faulty cable in my local church. I'd prefer the stuff with a white or grey PVC or LS sheath as it'll be running through a stone wall (protection of the copper from chemicals in the mortar) and it would blend in...
So been asked to do a small job initially for a customer (namely flush mount a few existing surface mounted sockets)
While I was there I was asked how hard it would be to move a light switch...harder than I thought...cabled in Pyro. easy solution (agreed with the customer) to use a master and...
So I'm contemplating wiring the garage / workshop) sockets in Pyro....(also considered using SWA)
However having never used it before, I'm looking for some help / tips with it.
First: for a 20A socket Radial - 2L1.5 or 2L2.5?
Also is this utter overkill or a worthwhile experiment?
Bit of advice required guys.
i have to do some refurb work on a listed building where previous works have been required to be in MICC
this works will require a completion cert when finished.
However, recently an approved contractor has carried out work on part of the installation where a...
Which code would be considered appropriate for a ring circuit protected by a 30A rewireable fuse wired in 4 core 1.5mm2 MICC cable installed to method C. Circuit consists of 12 double sockets serving a large chapel area in a church dating to approx 60 years. I have put a code 2 for...
Has anyone recently had a price for a drum of say 2L1.5 MICC cable? Not interested in buying any, it's part of a college project and can't seem to find anything online.
Cheers.
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