Hello. I hope someone can help. I've just discovered that on a new build house built just over a year ago there is a problem with the wiring from the incoming mains fuses to the consumer unit. Phase 1 was wired correctly. But the cable from Phase 2 on the main fuse is connected to Phase 3 on the...
Bought this 35 year-old house 5 years ago. On numerous occasions have found the 50A breaker in the main panel that supplies a subpanel in the detached garage, tripped for no apparent reason. Little if anything running in that garage at the time. I have a suspect as to what it might be, so I'm...
Hello all, I'm an amateur DIY home-owner that recently moved into an apartment for a 6-month military assignment and these maintenance workers here are clearly incompetent and just do the bare minimum at EVERYTHING, including electrical work.
So I moved in here and my dryer had the 3-prong...
I've recently had a ceiling replastered, and rather than wait for the electric to be turned off, the plasterer yank the light fitting off the cables. Now I've come to try and wire a strip light up, I can light it up, but it's on permanently. Anyone tell me what I've connected up wrongly? Don't...
The company I work for hired some guys to install a new panel for new equipment. So they pulled 400amps 3phase from our engine room. They ran it to a 400amp panel, then fed a transformer with a 100amp breaker to feed a 200amp 208v panel.
Now we have 130v to our 120v receptacles and the...
Which code would you give to a Wylex board populated with Hagar mcbs ,Wylex main switch and Wylex rcd.
Wylex once told me that nsb and nh breakers are not allowed on the same busbar !
My ex mother in law has 2 OLD candlestick (Brass) lamps.
The switch stopped working so I took it apart, it looks like this but plastic switch and cover BC SWITCHED BRASS LAMPHOLDER -...
Ok, I admit this stuff should be left to electricians now!
I was fitting a new ceiling light and it's caused some issues. I got the ceiling light to work fine but now it's knocked out (but not tripped) the rest of that circuit and I don't know why. It looks like some lights still go on but only...
hi everyone.. just a quick heads up.. i'm currently fixing a tv set and i've found the piece that i need to replace, but it's nothing that i know about. any help would be massively appreciated :)
Just removed some tired and grotty looking spotlights which were fitted to the top beam of my conservatory. Bro in law removed them first before I could look at how they were wired in but thought nothing of it cos its simple right? ?
Have bought 4 hanging vintage style pendants to replace them...
Second post on an EICR I did today (always a good sign!)
70s flat with earthed conduit and singles. 6mm runs from the CU to presumably where an old cooker switch was - at some point that was tiled over somehow and is now inaccessible - what emerges below the worktop is 2 x 2.5 Twin and Earth -...
Just got called to quote for a new job, and as part of doing so I asked to check the board. This is a Niglon board, fitted by a sparky about 18 months ago. Answers on a postcard if you can spot an issue!! Bonus point if you can guess the four letter word I muttered.
Just setting up a new sticky thread that unlike the dodgy trade pics thread is focused on showing the result of failures in electrical installations IE - damage caused which may be due to various reasons. Please do not post pics of poor workmanship if there is nothing else to show like the...
Went to look at this shower today. Customer says it’s not heating up.
Tried everything, and I can’t find the problem......
Can anyone suggest what could be wrong??
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Had you going there, didn’t I.
elderly customers very happy with me going out on a Saturday to replace this...
Hi all.
Just bought a house and it needs some attention to the electrics in terms of layout - loads of rooms that need 2 way switches don't have them, weird lighting set ups where one switch will do an inside and outside light at the same time etc, mostly trivial stuff.
I had planned to get a...
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