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Hi Has anyone installed a grade d fire alarm with a remote hush/test/silence button? Looks like most mains/9v battery interconnect optical smoke detectors can't have this option. Any ideas on how to acheive this with 3 core+e cabling. Thanks in advance Tilla Tech

If Gas Safe engineers can sign the photos why can't sparkies.

Hi Please find the larger pics on link. Thanks //www.diynot.com/network/tilla%20tech/albums/7232

Thanks for the advice and reassurance. By the way did anyone manage to look at the pics of the main fuse and how its split between shop below and upper flat( where I carried out the work). you can click on the first pic and it will go onto my album which will show the other two pics. I dont...

tilla tech wrote: Will I be ok if the smoke alarms are on the lighting ircuit rather than a dedicated one. Taylortwocities If it complies with BS7671, you are OK. I thought it might be one those NIC preferences eg. rubber grommet on metal knockout boxes. tilla tech wrote: Two...

Hi, NIC DI assesements coming up soon: Will I be ok if the smoke alarms are on the lighting ircuit rather than a dedicated one. Will the inspector want to see paperwork of mains supply being isolated by DNO for the CU change. Two metered installations are running off one single phase...

But the fact that a building notice was made before the works was started, would that not entitle the householder to ask the council to come and do a final inspection and testing themselves? Also I remember reading somewhere (maybe the ODPM part P website) that if an electrician goes...

I issued the PIR recently, the extension work finished two years ago. Reason I'm asking is that I submitted a PIR for a rewire of a house in Bedford. The original electrician did only the first fix and scarppered , I went and finished it off, issued a PIR and the Bedford Council inspector...

Hi Can the LABC insist that a PIR should be for a whole house, when the reason it is needed is so a building notice completion cert can be issued for an extension. The electrics on the extension were completed, no EIC by an electrician but he absconded when he had fall out with the...

To all those who suffered from Warmfront ideal boilers. Below is extract from parliamentary questions about Warmfornt. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm091016/text/91016w0012.htm Warm Front Scheme Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and...

Hi My parents Ideal Isar combi, started playing up earlier this yesterday. It was making a rumbling noise so my mum turned the boiler off then called me. I took along a newly qualified Corgi/Gas Safe friend. Whenever we reset or switched on power, after 3 attempts to ignite, the boiler...

Hi Had a look thru previous threads but couldnt find anything. I have noticed that plumbers/heating eng cross bond all the metal pipes on a combi boiler except the copper overflow pipe which runs to an outside gully. From what I understand I would have thought that this over flow pipe would...

Luton Borough Council. Before you chaps take it up with the council. Let my freind get the work done and his other building work cleared and his letting licence approved. Knowing what councils are like, if they get 'upset' they can be awkward to deal with. Thanks

Can a LA insist that reports such as 'Landlords Cert' and PIRs be only be done a a NICEIC or ECA member. A friend of mine has been asked to do some council mandated work on a three storey multiple occupancy house he lets out, so it complies with the neccessary legal/council requirements. see...

Hi, What code should that come up as, if it is missing? Thanks