Recent content by DamoZ

Ok thanks. I was going to lay a perimeter wall around it 150mm high then DPM covering the concrete and up the insides of the perimeter wall and over the top of it with the timber sole plate on top of that. Then use some heavy duty galvanised steel straps to join the outside of the perimeter...

Ok, and then replace it with another slab? What sort of problems will it cause later on? And if Idon't make it habitable how should I comtinue with my current plan to extend the exisiting slab?

Hi all, I want to build a timber framed room on the side of my house, mainly for storage initally but may make it habitable later on. There’s an exising concrete driveway slab 200mm thick that I would like to use as a base although I’d need to extend it so that it meets the house as there is...

Thanks for your help, and good to see that everybody agrees! I definitely won't be getting that electrician back again!

Hi all, I got an EICR done just to check how the electrics were in my house as it hadn't been done for about 5 years by the previous owner and few issues have come up. Some expected and some not expected and that were not considered issues on the previous report. The electrician wants to...

Thanks, yes that does sound a bit ridiculous that overqualified people can't do work in their own kitchen but someone who is potentially a bit useless but has done the right course can do. I guess for every x number of people that aren't qualified that do work themselves but are quite capable...

Ok that video was helpful, so you use a fuse so that the rcds/mcbs further downstream will trigger first if there's a fault on one of the circuits downstream so as to only shut off the faulty area rather than the whole thing. This would make it much easier to locate the source of any fault...

Sorry I really don't understand why you're on about Grenfell or the link between that and homeowner electrics!?! Obviously if all the documentation and certification gets falsified and people are given backhanders to look the other way and nothing is actually checked then you may end up with...

That's very helpful thanks, I'll take a good look at the video. Yes when I thought about how nearly impossible it would be to do that with a SWA I felt I may have answered my own question!

I thought that may cause a bit of controversy ;)

I just had another look at it and I wasn't right on a few of the details. They've got a cable coming down from the inverter in the loft running outside down the drainpipe to an IP67 type junction box. I hadn't looked at it closely before and said it was SWA but it actually looks like it's not...

That may be the case, and probably greed/profit had a fair bit to do with it too but I'm not sure how that relates to my question! As long as everything is checked, certified and signed off properly by building control it shouldn't matter who does the actual work. A spark may have a hungover...

I was looking at the wiring that the solar panel company did and they just have the SWA going directly to an 20amp MCB in the CU. I thought they would also need an isolator switch there because they have about 10 metres of cable but there's nothing

Thanks for the advice, I'll check with building control about the electrical cert type. I'm just curious as to why a fuse would be preferable to an RCD/MCB there? What if the swa cable got damaged in some way that that live conductors were exposed and somebody touched it? I guess it's pretty...

Thanks, I think I'll use a 63amp RCD, 50amp MCB and a 100amp isolator switch so I don't need to change anything if I add a bit more load later, everything will be low power int here anyway. I've already put in a full plans building control application which includes electrics which has been...