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[telectrix]

Hello, fellow sparkies. I’m a fully qualified electrician having done a 5 week course , got my Part P and everything. Got my NICEIC domestic installer inspection in 2 weeks. Going to rewire my parents house for the inspector to see. It’s a prefab, all concrete, built about 1950 and is wired in that awful round copper covered cable that fits into the boxes with brass nuts. It’s all 2 core cable, so there’s no earth. I’m going to do it all in stickyback plastic trunking, should only take me about a week. The niceic want a small job as well, so I plan to fit a circuit for washing machine and tumble dryer in the only place in my small flat where they will fit. The bathroom. As the floor is tiled, I can’t get to the socket cables, so I plan to come from the bathroom light in the attic, down the corner of the bathroom in trunking, under the bath, and fit a double socket under the bath where the taps are. I’ve looked up in the regulations, and that’s OK because you need a screwdriver to get the panel off. Also it makes the plumbing easy, straight from the tap pipes. And, because there’s no earth on the lighting, I can fix a wire from the earth of the socket to the cold water pipe. One thing I could not understand from the course is why I need to use thick cable on showers and cookers. Is it something to do with the bigger cable allowing the amps to flow faster, like bigger water pipes allow faster water flowing?

 

[telectrix]

Don't forget to do some testing after, if its a TTNS system to get your Ra you have to put the green one in your mouth and blue one in your right hand and the red one in your left hand.

yeah.we done that on the course. set the megger to 1000 then press the ---.

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got you going at first though, monkey. LOL.

 

[chopper76]

Where do I put the crocodile clip?

 

[telectrix]

on your balls

 

[monkeyelectric]

Just a thought, if you want to power some lights in the garden use red cable, if you cut a little groove in the grass and tuck it in no one will see it, but if they do the red will really show up well.






(just in case , *** THIS IS A WIND UP ***)

Thats why i run it on the surface in a flower bed but i have someone spray it brown first so it blends in with the soil and doesn't look an eyesore

 

[RmBo_0]

Isn't important to chant "tony cable" too, i think you need to read up on the regs:grinningelf:

I'm gonna do my regs when the 20th edition comes out so I can save up for a book

 

[stuartcourt]

who is this reg you keep going on about, hope this is not a cult and reginald is your leader only just got away from the mormons

 

[monkeyelectric]

who is this reg you keep going on about, hope this is not a cult and reginald is your leader only just got away from the mormons

Reg the veg, he's a green grocer

 

[Knobhead]

Isn't important to chant "tony cable" too, i think you need to read up on the regs:grinningelf:

I'm changing my name.

 

[Robotstar5]

25mm. OK. should i use armoured? we didn't do thet on the course.

Armoured's easy as long as you earth the metal bit under the outer plastic bit, just use a Jubilee clip (from somewhere like Halfrauds) to clamp the earth wire to it, the clip also stops the cable pulling out of the CU.

 

[telectrix]

i thought you cut them all off except 1 and then put that in a choc block.

 

[Clive P]

Hi,

I think they call it armoured so if there's a war it keeps on working.

Regards.

 

[PEM]

Far too much effort for a registration scheme! Just run an extension lead from anywhere into the bathroom don't worry about trip hazards cos that's not electrical!

Yes small cables for showers get hot but then that's free heating so environmentally friendly. If your worried just wire 2 extension cables side by side into the one plug. Job done.

Testing you'll be fine just copy the ones out of your text books but remember to change the address.

Obviously with your skills base now you should be going into design saves getting hands dirty. Or if your good kitchen fitting but I've heard that's difficult and takes years of training.

Nice one Telectrix!!!

 

[HappyHippyDad]

I've done a similar course Telectrix and feel that we could have a lot in common. The reason that you use a bigger cable for showers is because it has a larger current carrying capacity as opposed to raisins. Also I notice you mentioned you didn't have an earth, I have plenty of spare topsoil in my garden, that should help. Look forward to more of these discussions with you... :yes:

 

[PEM]

On my course I was told you don't need an earth as long as there are wooden floors or the occupants always wear slippers.

Anyway you don't need an earth until there's a fault and on the course you've been on you'll be that good you'll never make mistakes.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Hello, fellow sparkies. I’m a fully qualified electrician having done a 5 week course , got my Part P and everything. Got my NICEIC domestic installer inspection in 2 weeks. Going to rewire my parents house for the inspector to see. It’s a prefab, all concrete, built about 1950 and is wired in that awful round copper covered cable that fits into the boxes with brass nuts. It’s all 2 core cable, so there’s no earth. I’m going to do it all in stickyback plastic trunking, should only take me about a week. The niceic want a small job as well, so I plan to fit a circuit for washing machine and tumble dryer in the only place in my small flat where they will fit. The bathroom. As the floor is tiled, I can’t get to the socket cables, so I plan to come from the bathroom light in the attic, down the corner of the bathroom in trunking, under the bath, and fit a double socket under the bath where the taps are. I’ve looked up in the regulations, and that’s OK because you need a screwdriver to get the panel off. Also it makes the plumbing easy, straight from the tap pipes. And, because there’s no earth on the lighting, I can fix a wire from the earth of the socket to the cold water pipe. One thing I could not understand from the course is why I need to use thick cable on showers and cookers. Is it something to do with the bigger cable allowing the amps to flow faster, like bigger water pipes allow faster water flowing?

hi Tel....welcome to the forum.
yep...you`v got it all covered here as far as the scams....sorry your chosen scheme is concerned....you must be really looking forward to finally getting that part P qualification....
then you will really feal like an electrician.....and dont worry about what you hear in here...