Suggestions on best way of wiring a little commercial kitchen as there is no way chases can be done as walls are rock hard,I was thinking about running 4x2 plastic trunking around the perimeter at top of walls and dropping down to points in 20mm plastic conduit,any other ideas would be mostly...
I'm currently doing some galv lighting trunking all wired in low smoke singles with metal fire clips installed in the trunking over the escape route. I have been supplied plastic lid by the main contractor is there any thing in regs about not being able to use this. Sorry would look in my byb...
Hi guys. Firstly my apologies for posting a question that in my opinion has an obvious answer but I have started to doubt myself.
a friend of my brothers has just had a rewrire completed and the CU they fitted is a plastic one. My brother only noticed as I have just finished his rewrire and had...
Evening guys and gals
Done a ECIR in an HMO today, consumer unit was of plastic construction situated in an exit hallway on the ground floor. I recently read some pamphlet in a wholesalers which told me that, due to the Am3 regulations relating to fire proofing, we need to be coding such a...
Hi,
A customer called to say she has experienced small shocks from three different light switches in her house.
The hall, the lounge and the kitchen.
This has happened on three occasions over the last couple of days.
I said, I assume they are metal faceplates...
Nope, 100% plastic...
Ok...
I dont do much house bashing and hate the surface mounted plastic pattresses. They are brittle and smash if put on an uneven wall,breaking the tabs for cable entry can even smash the box too. Then a good woman with a hoover or similar appliance can pull a double pattress off the wall:bow...
When I removed the cover from the immersion heater in order to adjust the thermostat I found the thermostat had very deep scorch marks and I could see sparks when I switched the power back on. However, both the thermostat and immersion heater still seemed to be functioning properly. I swapped...
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What method do you use for earthing armoured to armoured on a platic 3 phase rotary isolator? Assuming I will have one armoured on top of the isolator and one on the bottom.
At the moment I use the banjos and on the inside of the isolator using an m6 bolt I'll lug the earth cable and...
Hi guys,I've got a small project of outside lights to do at my house. I've purchased led eyelid die cast bullhead lights due to install in my passage. I've a conundrum of what cable to use. I'm thinking of black uv protected black flex as the lights are black too , using whiska box. But I'm also...
Hi again,
So last night was very eventful! The fitting that sits between two pipes failed and leaked water all in the kitchen. Luckily my father was awake at the time and spotted this before any serious incident took place.
We called a plumber the next morning to get the problem fixed (was...
It's a TT so I reckon I'll sleep better at night knowing that if there was a fault to earth upstream of the RCDs the customer wouldn't get a brutal/possibly fatal belt. Just going to put it in the departures section of cert and discuss it at my annual inspection with my assessor.
I know I have...
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I was just wondering what the best way to connect PVC to steel conduit is? I was thinking PVC male adaptor and a steel conduit coupler?
Cheeeeeeeeeeers :D
Anyone give me some pointers towards somewhere I can get 20mm black plastic conduit adaptors (for joining to metal clad boxed - adaptor male or female) without getting my pants taken down on pricing...
got some stuffing glands on ebay from a uk company for a good price for a bag of 100...
Hi guys, saw a product advertised in professional electrician a while ago but can't remember the name. It was a plastic device to clip to the back of back boxes so that those pesky plasterers don't plaster your back boxes over or not reach anywhere near them - as like what happened to me on a...
Morning all
am planning on joining niceic as after a few years of working on social housing with my firm- i am brain dead- and want to start doing my own thing gradually.
i am aware you need two jobs for your niceic assessment- one being 'major' -i will be using a future kitchen re-wire. This...
With ammendment 3 upon us, there are a lot of plastic cu's still out there.
Basically these can still be fitted up to the implementation date of 1st Jan 2016 regarding steel or non cumbustable enclosures.
So on the new AMD 3 certs that you now have to use, along with a plastic c/u.
How are you...
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