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  1. M

    Smoke alarms

    I have been asked to price to fit some wireless smoke alarms in a house which as been converted into separate rooms. now I've see you can get mains powered or battery powered wireless alarms but I friend as the he did not think you could fit battery wireless smoke alarms in a domestic property...
  2. F

    LPG domestic tank earthing.

    Does an LPG tank serving a domestic property need earthing ? I was planning just to put a main earth bond onto pipe where it comes into property. But does the tank itself need earthing to prevent static electricity ?? Cheers.
  3. M

    Noise on circuit

    Hi guys, I have a strange one. I was called to a property recently to an intermittent alarm on a heating fill set (mikrofill EFD). I have fitted many of these in the past with no problems. I contacted the manufacturers who advised me that the fault could be interference on the circuit due to...
  4. B

    Eicr codes

    Recently got the job of performing EICR for estate agent, now there are two of us performing them. However one property in particular is a property that a member of staff is purchasing and then to rent out in Westerhope. The other spark has deemed it unsatisfactory for the following...
  5. K

    Safety of rental property

    I posted this yesterday, but not sure if it will appear in this section or elsewhere, so apologies if it seems to be a duplicate... Hello all, I wonder if I could ask some advice from electricians out there, I'm not one myself, my link to the forum is through my involvement in PAT testing. My...
  6. K

    Safety of rental property

    Hello all, I wonder if I could ask some advice from electricians out there, I'm not one myself, my link to the forum is through my involvement in PAT testing. My son is about to rent a flat through a letting agents and I recently had a look at it with him. The electrics in the premises are via...
  7. G

    Mains set up

    small bedsit type property 2 x db's 1 for storage heating 1 rest of bedsit cooker,shower lights,ring mains into meter then out , storage heating board via teleswitch customer doing away with storage heating , question is , ok to remove everything tied in with it , teleswitch etc
  8. sparkymalarky

    Advantages and disadvantages of Ring Circuits

    Found this argument on the IET website and it made for interesting reading at work! http://www.------.org/resources/wiring-regulations/ringcir.cfm?type=zip
  9. S

    Wrong halogen downlight connections?

    Hello, I'm not an electrician and I'd be really grateful if one of you pros could help me out: I recently moved from a property that I was renting. When I first moved in to this property 4 years ago I noticed that my halogen downlights were failing to work after as short a period as 1 or 2...
  10. J

    Verifying earthing of a property before carrying out any work!

    HI... Would i right in saying that it is important to first check that a property is earthed sufficiently and that readings are within what they should be for T-N-C-S, T-N-S, TT systems. Upon discovering a house has no main earth route back to star point would it be correct to say that no work...
  11. T

    Fault find #3

    The phone rings and it turns out the job is just round the corner, complaint is of a total loss of power. What steps are you going to take to ascertain the problem? This happened to me a week or so before Christmas.
  12. T

    advise on bt/ Internet in domestic property

    Hi all:) Was wondering if anyone could give me any advise please, currently do a 6 bed rewire, the customer wants a telephone point in every bedroom, their Internet comes in via their phone line, I brought telephone cable to extend to all the points but now I'm starting to doubt that the cable...
  13. D

    No RCD in place..

    Hi all, I have a question for you regarding UK law and RCD protection on radial circuits in a domestic property. My mother lives in a council owned house which was converted from an old TB hospital in the 1960s. All circuits in the property are radial not ring. The property wiring is pre...
  14. W

    Rules for a split property

    Hello I have moved into a 3 bedroom house private renting. Part of the house is converted into a small studio. They have one room and a shower room. They have only electric inside that bit and it feeds off my meter by using a coin meter. Whoever lives there has to feed the meter £1 coins which...
  15. Z

    3 phase on a domestic property

    I have recently bought a property with 3 phase electric supply, 3 phases and a neutral, we are turning the house into 2 apartments, so would it be possible to put 1 phase to each appartment and then the last phase to the garage? i know that when each phase is connected to the neutral it is 240v...
  16. Worcester

    A discussion for the holiday - Struggling with recommendations for our OWN property!!

    We are on oil and are looking for our ideal solution - mains gas is in the street, £1500 to connect up (long drive..) We've got lots of spare PV output (on a sunny day) and an immersun unit -love it) We've got adequate area of land. Maximum loft insulation, cavities filled on 1/4 of house...
  17. Y

    Can i add another meter to a property????

    Can anyone help, my uncle has just asked me if i can add another meter to an existing meter, basically he owns a property with one single phase supply, then he converted his rather unusually big garage into a second home!!! now he is renting his property and is now living in his converted...
  18. T

    Is my Property Electrical Test and Inspection Report Misleading?

    Hi, I bought a property in 2010 and naturally had the electrical and inspection report done prior. The report said that 'generally the electrics are in good order but new consumer unit is needed and bonding to gas and water is also needed' The quoted work was £500 in total - no problems...
  19. S

    EICR on a Flood Damaged Property

    Good Morning All, I will start by stating that the property concerned is a restaurant where I have now isolated the original electrical systems because of water ingress. Being from Yorkshire we have been hit by flooding yet again recently and I have been asked to perform an EICR on a flooded...
  20. M

    Commercial property

    Hi everyone, I've just been asked to do some basic fault finding on a lighting circuit in a commercial property, I've been working as a domestic spark with Elecsa for nearly 8 years and have always turned down commercial work that isn't covered by the scope of part p. Am I actually allowed to...

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