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  1. fishkake

    Installing CT clamps in commercial premises

    Hi there sparkys! I work for a company who manufacture CT Clamps to measure current consumption. I'm a presales engineer, not an electrician. These clamps, as I'm sure you know, simply clip on to a conductor in a consumer unit or elsewhere, and in our case, transmit the information wirelessly...
  2. S

    Electrical installations in commercial premises

    Hi everyone, I know that part P apply to dwellings and its associated building, and under that there are some electrical work that are notifiable. But what about commercial premises eg restaurants, schools, pubs.. What electrical regulations applies to it, is there any alternative similar to...
  3. B

    I Need Work Charity requires premises inspection/certification in Alconbury, Huntindonshire

    A charity I assist requires an inspection, test and certification of the fixed wiring in its recently refurbished premises on the old Alconbury Airfield site in Huntingdonshire. There is a new 3 phase main switch and distribution board into which mostly existing circuits have been connected, and...
  4. O

    Testing our own premises? In-house electrician..

    I work to a company in the seafood industry. We have in the teens of different premises. I am employed directly by the company and at the moment I maintain them all electrically and a third party company comes around and does all the inspection and testing work. The only reason for this other...
  5. N

    Can you hide a fire alarm panel in a commercial premises?

    Fire alarm panel currently installed in a high street premises signed off by building regs. Looking to install a stud partition in-front of all electrical services (including the fire panel) which are access via an unsecured hinged wall panel. Does this still meet regulations? Can anyone help...
  6. A

    CCTV regulations recording other premises

    Hi guys, Just wondering if I can pick the brains of a few CCTV installers. We are concerned about a neighbour using CCTV from their house to watch us. They live opposite us and have the camera pointed from a window looking out across the road and onto our property. I believe this is not the use...
  7. S

    3P and 1P in Commercial Premises

    hi folks, just after some opinions as we’ve had some differing advice so far. We’ve just bought a small ind unit which has an ancient 3P and 1P panel with rewireable fuses. We need to upgrade as we want 3 ringmains, one for the office, one for the rear workshop area and one for the front...
  8. B

    Time Delay RCD For A commercial premises

    I have changed a new fuse board in a Shop with about 4 Fridges and i have got a problem with the RCD keep tripping and I put 100ma time delay RCD instead of the 30ma and the RCD Tripped few times and then stopped tripping all the test was passed but I don't know if this comply with the regs or...
  9. cliffed

    Refurb works In offices

    Just your thoughts on this one,doing a part refurb on existing offices,no initial verification or certs found anywhere. Premises rewired bout 1990,adding sockets here & there in each room. The DB is a Crabtree Tpn polestar,just finished some loop readings ,& not good,1.49 the highest,there is...
  10. charlie76

    H4 Cooker Circuits in household and similar premises

    Evening All. I am supplying a cooker and an electric hob from a single circuit via a single isolation switch. When calculating the demand with diversity i.e. first 10A + 30% remainder, should this be for each appliance then added together or combined? Either way I get 28.4A or 21.4A for a 6.6kW...
  11. Scratch Music

    Need help with audio in Commercial/Industrial premises?

    25 years ago I started helping contractors with audio systems. Contractors are now a big part of our client base. If you need advice...ask. We will give advice where we can - for free. If you become a client...all the better.
  12. R

    Change of premises

    Hi all, I am an employer of 3 staff. Two sparks and 1 x 2nd year apprentice. Just in case it has a bearing on any responses, i have never set up an employment contract. When i employed the apprentice the company was operating from premises not 1 (which was closer to the apprentice's home, his...
  13. P

    Fitting Sub Main in shop premises

    Hello, I have beens asked to do wiring in a new shop and there is a currently a consumer board supplying the building with all wires removed by another Electrician. I have been told that the owner of the building wants a sub main fitted with a meter to tell them what electricity is being...
  14. bartkusal

    Gas bonding comercial

    Hi everyone, Wasn’t here for a while, would like to get some opinions on my issue, if you don’t mind folks. Gas bonding issue, gas incoming pipe is at one point and it’s boded as soon as it enters the premises, the meter is about 20 meters inside the premises, I have my boss insisting that...
  15. FatallyFlawed

    NHS issues safety alert on socket covers requiring removal from NHS premises!

    The NHS has just published a safety alert about socket covers which requires them to be removed from all NHS premises! It says: "This Alert is issued to highlight how, in certain circumstances, the use of plastic 13A (13 amp) electrical socket inserts (sold as safety accessories) can overcome...
  16. U

    BICC MK2 identifying dno cut out in domestic premises

    Hello all forum users. I am currently training as an electrician and have been able to identify some DNO cut out fuses rating but i have one in a rented property im staying in that has no identifying marks on it apart from BICC MK2. It looks old. My question is is this a standard pull out...
  17. Doomed

    Help with EICR coding

    Working on report at home, left books in office as I got called home urgently yesterday, help on a couple of codings would be useful. I want to have the report emailed off before Monday so I cant use the NICEIC advice line. Inspected care home, all clients are dementia. No RCD protection on...
  18. C

    comercial premises can i work

    Hi somebody has asked me to do a job in a commercial premises. Can I legally do so without part p competent persons registration. Based on my quals . 2356 level 2+3. Test insp. Wiring regs. Thanks
  19. L

    EICR For Domestic Premises

    Hi all, Hopefully you can shed a little light on this subject. Recently Self Employed spark and have been approached by somebody with a few properties he rents out. He wants me to do a condition report, which i am more the confident and competent to do so. I am a time served electrician (C&G...
  20. B

    Industrial premises

    Aye ups all, Called to a mates job today to help out, the premises are gonna be a mechanics garage, which is a steel structure embedded in concrete, now I noticed that he's taken the supply for the new premises from the garage next door which is also owned by the customer, I'm assuming he's...

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