Hello
New to the forum and looking for some advice.
I have purchased a house that requires a full rewire as it has old rubber wiring, spurs on spurs and a 13-amp socket drawing current of a light fitting! I've had some professional electricians round to discuss what's need and provide quotes...
ok so I know I'm gonna get a lot of abuse but I'm really interested to know how competent people work and the order they do things in.
I've recently moved into a new house and the wiring is old and has been poorly done, lots of annoying features like not enough sockets, no point of isolation...
hi, asking as a customer not a tradesman
Having had a rewire and had some issues with the electrician , namely his working standards and the fact the job took twice as long as estimated. I paid a third up front before work started, he then coerced a not agreed upon second payment out of me a...
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I am having an extension done at the moment. Everything gets reshuffled inside the house so will be rewiring all rooms. I am planning to run cables in place and put back boxes myself but get electrician to install main board and all the sockets once plastering is complete. I studied as...
Hi everyone.
I'm an electrician in Leeds and i'd really appreciate your view on walking away from jobs when the existing install is not right.
For instance I had two days booked in for a CU change and rewiring of some spotlights. I always start a CU change by doing a condition report first on...
Greetings everyone
We are rewiring a house and have reached the kitchen.
We have run a 2.5mm cable from consumer unit which will connect as ring for over worktop sockets, and in the same ring we plan to run spurs (switched and fused) for:
1. washing machine
2. dishwasher
3. boiler
4. gas hob...
We're first time house renovators and recently had an electrician in to replace the main board and rewire the kitchen.
I'm really not too happy with the results. There are cables coming out of the wall below the sockets and running back into the floor, multiple holes around sockets and where...
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Just curious to see if anyone has had the pleasure of carrying one of these out before? And if so how it went.
We've got couple coming up, both following an EICR where we've found chewed cables/ basic insulation-exposed terminals buried in the thatch
:rat::fire::flushed:
Both jobs...
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We have recently purchased an 1800s 3 bed terraced house and have been told we need the electrics looked at.
The main board has not been changed since the 1960s and we wanted to find a competent electrician who can get this done for us over the next few weeks. We're in the Scottish...
Was asked to check the quality of work on full rewire. Attached are the pictures I took of yet another shocking installation by a cowboy pretending to be an electrician. The home owner paid £500 and thought he got a good deal what he’s got instead is a death trap.
Hi, i have been doing a bungalow rewire with a colleague, and came across these installed in lounge and bedrooms.
has anyone seen these MEM sockets before ? approx age ?
hi guys
I’m a qualified industrial electrician so I am competent working domestically however don’t have the official quals etc.
I’ve Recently bought my first house and if there was ever a time to do a rewire now is the time as the whole house requires decoration etc and I’m thinking of...
Experts opinion required.
Ask to add some addition fittings to a lighting circuit within a shop. Opened up the consumer unit to access the circuit. And noticed the tails from the service head to the meter and from the meter to the consumer unit look very suspicious. I have experience with...
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The power cable on my table saw attached to the motor came off when I changed blade to 45 degrees.
Turned saw upside down and the power cable was hanging loose, the only wire coming out the motor is a red live cable, how can I reattach the power cable when it has live and neutral wires...
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After having a partial electrical rewire of a domestic property and existing electrical installation tested which certificates should I receive from the electrician and should I receive something from the council, also are they uploaded somewhere so they can be downloaded in the future...
I recently had the house (3 bed semi) rewired and have come across some things that are causing me concern. I’ve made the Electricuan aware but have not yet had a proper response so I just want to get some alternative “expert” opinion.
Basically three issues.
1. The upstairs and downstairs...
Good evening people.
I'm about to price up a kitchen we wire for a friend
I've done work for mates before and know how it goes.
Anyway, was hoping to get some guidance as I'm an improved and steadily taking on larger jobs myself.
Job:
Kitchen rewire.
3 sockets 3 single sockets chased in
4...
I am doing a major house renovation in a small 1960 3 bed semi, but need the consumer unit replacing and a partial rewire. The job was started by another electrician who cannot now complete the job.
I am an (out of work) electronics engineer so am competent to do the boring basics but I need the...
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I was asked for a 2nd opinion
So if you operate in the Cobham area of Surrey and think you're about to get an easy rewire off a lady pensioner .......... think again ........ you're not.
Hi all, I'm hoping someone could give me advice about a sutuation.
A couple of years ago I had a property fully rewired, no issues with the job and I paid the electrician in full. Job done.
Once I'd paid I received an automated NAPIT Desktop email titled "Your Certificate". I mistakenly assumed...
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