Hello all
I'm new to this forum and have recently joined due to a lot of threads here have been quite interesting and many have very good answers from knowledgeable people.
I've been sparking for 12 years and spent my apprenticeship with my fathers electrical company. My appretership was quite...
Colleague just popped to site to check on progress before we start out install in a few weeks.
Got him to send me through a snap of the temporary electrics on-site.
Your thoughts?
Can anyone give me a guide price for first year accounts for a Ltd company? Have been quoted £750+VAT for this year with next year projected at £950+VAT, this includes payroll but to be honest it is only me and the Mrs, does this sound about right?
I see some knob has been kicked off an airline for for deliberately taking the pess and speaking Arabic in a whispering conversation, what do you think? I say serves the dipstick right.
Just finished a small conversion in the loft and been running an extension lead up to a light.
I'm looking to put a switched light in there and just want to check my thinking is right.
I put a light in the loft running a new wire down to the bedroom switch that is currently a single switch. I...
A lad I know about 2 years out of his apprenticeship rang me the other day for some advice. Basically he is doing some work for a company that is getting work through a local council over my way, anyway having been there for a few weeks he was asked to provide proof of his qualifications because...
Check out this guy! I nearly fell off my chair when I watched it and just had to share it.
If this isn't an advert for dangerous work I don't know what is?!
I have an old Worcester Bosch 280 combi. Currently it doesn't have a stat connected so the connectors on the board are
N (Unused)
1 & 2 (marked as Room Stat) are jumpered, and I get 240V from 2 when metered out, but nothing from 1 (assumed to be stat switch on)
3 is unused and unmarked
4 is...
Hi all,
Apologies for this being my first post on the forum, I intend to write an introduction post too once I've finished here.
I've recently had a storage heater fitted as a way of heating my property (I'm a student). I can't help but think it looks extremely dangerous and I'm dubious about...
Is it just me, but in the last day or two, the forum display is no longer full screen, maybe about half size, which makes the text very small for my elderly eyes.
Its only this forum, others (ahem) are not affected.
@Dan is this to do with the festive snow that has recently appeared at the top?
So, whats with the Snow falling, and the Santa hat at the top???
It's only half way through November. I am surprised I havn't seen any daft sod with Xmas decorations up yet, guess it won't be long. The supermarkets have already started, can we keep XMAS until it actually IS Xmas???
There should...
Recently our family friends had a supply installed in there winter yard (travellers/showmen), being a trainee and having just covered special locations section 708 at college,I was interested to see how it Was done.
Supply is as follows.
3 phase TNS supply
25mm tails to 63A 4 pole switch fuse...
Does this pricing sound right for a kitchen rewire London
8 spot lights x £60 point
1 heat detector £70
outside lights x 3 £210
oven 6mm supply £200
hob supply 6mm £200
fridge freezer supply £60
dishwasher supply £60
extractor supply £60
5 double sockets £480
aerial point with only means...
Hi all,
This is really concerning.
Turned off all breakers in a domestic single phase consumer unit. With just the main switch on I measure a 0.8 amp current in the neutral tail into the consumer unit and virtually zero current in the Live tail. This is using a clamp meter.
One of the...
Re wire teams required in Glasgow for large contracts under way & more coming up and over X mas.
Top rates paid to you at £225 per head (this can go up for the right squads) for a 3 bed & under, no 4 beds have been done to date but the price will go up.
Feel your current rates don't match your...
Hi, Im would like to know if i would currently be able to provide the right jobs to join NICEIC approved scheme.
I Have been an electrician for the last 12 years fully qualified all tickets etc.... but have been with my company for 1 and a half years on various projects. we are currently...
transformer battery charger - http://overunity.com/16932/transformer-battery-charger/msg494683/#new
Basically do you know what will be the voltage of the charged capacitor on the right side?
the three phases have same number of turns.
so 240 V AC 50 Hz is splitted into two 120 VAC 50Hz (left...
Got a call from a local builder this week, asking if I could come and "have a look at a job". Upon asking what it was he said electrics in a new extension. So, as it was on my way home I called in for a butchers. Turns out it has already been done and he just want's "a sparky to issue a cert". I...
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