My father (now 80 years of age) has renovated a house. The electrician has rewired it, the building regs people have inspected it and gave the go ahead to plasterboard and finish it. At this point the electrician disappeared, we have asked in the village, one said he passed away in covid, now my...
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I bought this neon sign for my cinema room to put above my arcade machines. I have the cinema controlled by Google voice command so that when I want to watch a movie I say the command and everything downstairs turns on ready.
This neon sign has a dimmer inline and it seems...
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I just wanted to see if electrical improvers/adult trainees with appropriate levels of experience and who hold testing qualifications can complete minor works certs or EIC's for basic installs. For me that shows competence and skill as is always mentioned and certs are checked off...
So I have completed the NAPIT LCL level 3 in dwellings course, but from what I have figured NAPIT are ----, all I’m waiting for is the on site assessment, I was told on the phone that I can sign work off with this and then told at the college that I can’t, they said theyd speak but they never...
I visited here a while back, well over a year ago actually and I can't seem to get back at that post about a "Walk Don't Walk sign I bought 8 years ago in Paris" to update it so I have had to create this new one.
I would like to thank all those on this forum that gave me advice on how to...
I'm buying a house and have received the electrical testing certificate. There were two C1's and a C2 identified, all very easy fixes even for an amateur DIYer, the problem I have is that the electrics were condemned for this reason and so the busbar was removed from the consumer unit. This also...
Hi.. not posted on here much but im after a bit of advice.
I have recently qualified 18th edition (level 3 electrotechnical EAL)
Im looking into joining either NAPIT or NIC for the ease of contacting building control to sign jobs off. i then found out i will need the 2391 testing and inspection...
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I am located in Czech Republic and looking for a supplier for LED banner/sign lights. Can't seem to find anything decent around, after a lot of searching. Does anyone know of any manufactures within Europe?
An electrician has stated that he will not sign off work done by someone else he stated "all or nothing".
Just want to check how many electricians on this site would sign off electrical work done by other people.
Yes I would sign off other people's work
No, I would not sign off other people's work
I've bought all the power and hand tools, and am planning to start up on my own doing small electrical jobs for people as a sole trader with small steps, the problem I think i'm going to have is being able to sign off the work when i've done it, my friend at college is working for someone so...
Posting from my HUDL 2, wondering why the new site won't work on my trusty old Mac Mini. I did the usual sort of thing to try and fix this, cleared the cache, cookies and history but no joy yet.
The site is acting like the sign in button doesn't work, eg the pointer doesn't change into a little...
Hi guys iv have a quick question,
My mum has bought a new house that she plans to move into soon, its empty at the moment and i have access to the floorboards, she has a new mk metal split load consumer unit with two 30ma RCD's, however there is no bonding to gas or water. :mad:
Anyways i will...
occasionally when testing I get the noise signal coming up on my tester this stops me getting a reading, sometimes I think its a poor connection with probes and I've had it with induced voltages from other circuits anyone else had similar and what else can happen for this noise icon to come on...
Hi, I am pretty stuck with this so I would hugely appreciate any tips!
I am not an electrician.
I designed a neon sign piece for a commercial property in USA: (image 1)
It has two neon transformers powering 4 tubes in total. (image 2) The transformers then connect to a voltage converter...
So a quick question, should I or should I not sign write my van and also recommendations on a roof rack mainly for ladders and a pipe holder, swb Trafic van do I need a two or three bar solution??
A colleague has been asked to undertake 5 yearly periodic inspections and certify. He has passed the 2394 and 2395 practical and online elements however awaiting writen exam results.
Company are hoping to put him out there. I have reservations. Not that I don't think he's capable more so that...
So I've just fitted a 12 panel system to my own property in Leicester. I'm 2391 inspection and test qualified but don't really want to go to the expense of doing the course to be mcs as I am already to busy and don't see the market growing now feed in is so low. Is there an independent test...
Hi,
I am a little confused and hoping for some help.
I am a qualified JIB gold card spark and work with a friend (also qualified spark) as sole traders, we have subcontracted to company's for the last say 5 years doing commercial electrical and fire alarm installations.
Now we are looking...
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I'm new here and possible my last chance to find somebody to test and sign off before I starting to convert my system to island system. My original plan was a grid connection but I'm loosing my hope to find an electrician in Ashford, Kent or surrounding area to test and sign off...
Evening all...I need to do an EIC for a commercial installation I have done recently. Problem is, I am an Elecsa domestic installer and all the online certification on Elecsa's website is titled up 'Domestic EIC'. Anybody know where I can get some commercial EIC's and do they require the exact...
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