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  1. Togalonn

    Is it safe to install junction boxes?

    Hi, Is it safe to install junction boxes in damp, high-temperature, or mechanically vulnerable locations for long-term use? What are the best practices to ensure safety?
  2. 2

    Is this even safe?

    I am from Chicago, but am currently in Italy. The building I am living in has 4 meters in a wooden box. I noticed my meter has quite a few more wires than the rest, so I took a closer look. Meter 4 has a blue and black wire, that are spliced into another blue and black, that run into a tube...
  3. Jimi Z

    Is this connection safe? Oven power cable connected to electricity mains cable behind oven, sealed with electric tape.

    Is this connection safe? Oven power cable connected to electricity mains cable behind oven, sealed with electric tape
    • Jimi Z
    • Thread
    • behind cable connected connection electric electricity mains oven power safe tape
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  4. A

    Has fuse box been left safe

    Apparently half the downstairs works were on the left of the fuse box and half on the right sparky replace one of the fuses ( allegedly as I wasn’t in ) and decided not to use any of the left switches. everything is now powered from the right switches but he didn’t bother to relabel what’s what...
  5. R

    Is it enough to prove safe isolation on a circuit which is controlled by a PIR on a seperate circuit ?

    Hi Guys currently doing my apprenticeship and looking for some external advice regarding safe isolation. Situation is a circuit supplying some external street bollard lights and 1 or 2 street lamps. This circuit is fed via a single phase MCB then through a contactor all located in the db. The...
    • Rob678
    • Thread
    • circuit controlled enough isolation pir prove safe seperate
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  6. A

    Is it safe to spur?

    I want to put an inline booster pump into the bathroom hot water supply due to low pressure. I need to take a single spur from a double socket into the ceiling cavity where it'll be fixed to a joist approximately five foot away from where the pump will be located. The double socket that the spur...
  7. R

    UK Safe Summerhouse Supply

    Good Evening Folks! I recently started on my house for an Outhouse/Summerhouse 35m away from main Property. It requires :- x5 Double Sockets x2 Strip Lights The sockets will be used for Televisions and Charging. I have 2 ways i’d like to to this. A 6mm SWA from Main CU/32A RCD clipped...
  8. T

    Safe isolation of rotary isolator when no incoming voltage present.

    Hi all, trying to work out the best way for proving safe isolation of a motor. Motor is fed from a contactor inside control panel, it then passes through a local isolator and then to the motor, the isolator has auxillary contacts so that when it is in the off position the contactor will not...
    • tomodo
    • Thread
    • incoming isolation isolator present rotary rotary isolator safe voltage when
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  9. Z

    UK Safe isolation

    Hi everyone, I hope you are all well and having a good week. I would like to ask a question regarding safe isolation in one particular case. I know we have to lock off/tag off the circuit we are working on, but what if there are two electricians attending the job? Scenario: Two qualified...
  10. I

    UK Is this meter and consumer unit location safe and upto spec? (kitchen cabinet, water pipes)

    Hello, I am renovating my kitchen and looking for advice on best placement of the meter and consumer unit. I am primarily concerned with: Building regs Electrical regs Fire safety It's just a simple dwelling, not HMO or anything. Currently, the meter and consumer unit is inside of a brick...
  11. J

    Is it safe to plug 2 extension leads into a double wall socket?

    Hi am just looking for some expert advice, my little girls room only has 1 double socket, currently have an extension lead with just the camera for her baby monitor plugged in and the other socket has a room thermometer plugged in. We have just got a little clock night light and need to plug...
  12. D

    Safe Isolation of a 16/32a socket

    Hi, after some discussion with electricians, does removing a 16A or 32A socket constitute safe isolation? I understand that removing the socket completes an isolation, but for me, additional measures should be included, either placing a lock around the plug to prevent it from being placed back...
  13. A

    Weird Wiring, light switch, is this safe?

    Hi, I was ironing and lost power to the bedroom and bathroom. All outlets and lights. I checked the box and reset breakers still no power. I called out the guy who comes to do electrical "new home still under warranty " and he came in bedroom opened light switch, i took these pics. He did...
  14. Alla Musica

    Safe or not? (see pic.)

    Hi all, I hope you're very well. (The switch goes to a 10W LED) Is the above wiring going to be safe please, especially given the way the ring main is treated at the top of the picture? (You might wish to leave aside any UK regulations as the above scenario is in a different country)
  15. C

    UK Is this Smart meter installation Safe

    We have a meter EDMI - ES30B fitted to our property. I understand from the fact sheet for the smart meter (https://www.edmi-meters.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ES-30B-Factsheet-English.pdf), that our meter is rated to withstand 460V which I imagine is under fault conditions rather...
  16. R

    How to conduct safe isolation on this main switch ?

    Hi all, if I cannot access the line side of a crabtree 100A DP main switch. Would someone enlighten me how to conduct safe isolation on this installation. Would the main fuse need to be removed ? Thankyou.
  17. A

    Is this safe? Would it pass ECIR ?

  18. MattHarrisUK

    Managed To Rip A Light Out, Is It Safe To Slot It Back In? (UK)

    Hi there! While making my bed I managed to flap my covers around so much that it hooked around my light and ripped it clean out of the socket. Included are pictures of the situation that I've got at the moment. What I want to know is if it's safe for me to switch off the electricity to the...
  19. J

    Exposing old mains cables, Is this safe???

    Hello. I'll apologize to start with as due to my lack of knowledge on the matter I'm likely to waffle a bit and call everything by the wrong name but hopefully you'll get my point... I am having some renovations done at home and need to have the electrical meter relocated slightly. We have...
  20. G

    This doesn't seem up to code / safe (small gauge wire to 100 amp breaker in an outbuilding)

    Last year we purchased a home that was built in the late 1990s It has one outbuilding, sort of a barn/shed about 160 feet from the house (and probably closer to 280' from the utility connection on the far side of the home), which has a breaker box in it supplying three 20A circuits (lights on...
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