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Thanks Pete I've just looked at the universal mewp guide handbook. It says you should never exit the cage unless there is no other safe way of doing the job. your right, risk assessment and method statement will need to be done for this specific task. Thanks

Hi All, Long time since I posted on here. Its good to be back. Does anybody know whether you are allowed to get out of a cherry picker, onto a roof for instance. The building we are working on has fixed ladders up to the roof but we aren't allowed to use these as they could be unsafe...

We've noticed that there is a water leak out in the road. Directly outside our house. Basically the road is always wet and puddles either side even when everywhere else is dry. The water company are coming tomorrow. Presumably they'll have do dig up the road. But hopefully cure our noise.

Morning all, For the last couple of days we have suddenly developed a noise like the sound of a toilet cistern filling up. It is constant 24 hours a day. However, there are no cisterns filling and no overflows overflowing. if I touch the water pipes in the downstairs loo, it feels like a...

Hi All, I have to work a one-off night next thursday night after having worked monday to thursday during the day. Obviously the thursday will be a very long day. My question is how would you want to be paid for it. The nights work may be 5-7 hours. Starting at 11pm. Thanks

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Hi, Personally, I was lucky enough to be given advice about the industry from an asbestos company. I went and did the 402 and then the company helped me do the 2 surveys required to complete the course. They were not in a position to offer me a job but I now had the 402 and got a job...

Hi All, I need to put up an aluminium mobile scaffold tower. I am pasma trained but cant remember how high it needs to be before you use the stabaliser legs. My company has ordered the scaffold for the job and I'm not sure what height it will be. Is it a case of a minimum platform and...

Hi, Free standing pillars with low stone walls either side. Timber fence posts coming out of the stone walls and finished with featheredge board to a height just above the pillars.

Hi All, We live on a main road and get quite a bit of traffic noise. At the moment we have timber windows with double glazing. In my wisdom I was wondering if triple glazed units would make much difference and if so what sort of thickness they would be. As I would in theory like to swap...

Hi Everyone. We've currently got 2 brick plinths that are two brick lengths square and about a metre high. The hollow centre is filled with concrete. From these brick plinths our 5 bar gate is hung from hinges put into the brickwork when it was being built. My plan is to extend the plinths...

I sympothise with you. We live next door to a house full of students. It's a tricky situation in that they don't make noise all the time but you are always on edge and listening out. They're all frightfully posh with good manners but they are young and away from home and want to let their...

Hello All, Does anybody know how to find whether a future court case is actually taking place. My mate and I are still owed money from a contractor we worked for last year and he has been stringing us along all this time regarding the money. By the way, I am not holding my breath about...

I haven't got a meter to measure the voltage unfortunately. Is it designed to charge up itself?

Hi All, Second question of the day. I bought a new 12V 7Ah battery for my burglar alarm today and fitted it in. I was presuming that if I then turned the power off to simulate a power cut then the battery would keep things going. But no, sure enough the external sounder started. The...

Thanks Industryspark, I have 8 individual wires in the cable. Looking at the screwfix catalogue I can't seem to find anything appropriate. Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks

Hello All, Last night we had a power cut and the external sounder went off for the standard 15 minutes because I presume our back-up battery in the control panel is dead. It hasn't been looked at or serviced since it was installed 8 years ago. About 11pm the power came back on again but...

Hello All, I think I am going mad. A number of years ago I put 5 downlights in the ceiling of our hall, no problem. I want to do similar in our backroom but for the life of me I can't remember how a wired each light to each other. The lights each have there own transformer with a live and...

Hello All. I need to move a PIR down the wall a bit so I can lower the ceiling. Obvoiusly though if I try to open up the PIR I get the alarm going off with tampering. If I try to turn the power off to the alarm then all hell breaks loose and the siren starts outside. I have Securit 800L...

Hello All, Probably a daft question from a complete plumbing novice. Is there a name for the part that I need that screws into my new radiator one end and then attaches to the existing radiator valve the other end. I will have to work out the sizes, I get a bit confused with 15mm...