Recent content by edlewis

Good point! Raises some interesting questions for landlords buying homes which have had work done either undocumented or documentation lost. If someone bought a flat which had an additional circuit not on its original Domestic Electrical Installation Certificate, my understanding is that it's...

Well if someone (be it a DIYer or an electrician who didn't feel like issuing a MWC) did the work, their strict obligation is to do it BS7671, not to also have a MWC issued. So the tenant doesn't really have an objection unless they believe it is unsafe. (As for how a tenant raises this...

Great thanks, that's really good to know. So I might as well get an electrician to do the work and a periodic inspection whilst they're at it. Thanks all

Yep, so I guess I need to be careful not to cock anything up and if I did, I must accept it has an insurance impact. Would a routine test of the flat's electrics by a qualified electrician verify that I had wired the timer correctly? That seems like a way of making sure everything is inline...

Good question, mine only has: All gas and electric appliances and installations at the insured property must be regularly inspected by you or a responsible person acting on your behalf as required by the appropriate legislation and repaired, replaced, maintained or serviced as necessary to...

I guess I'm feeling confident as the flat was new before (3yrs old) and it's a straight replacement. But appreciate the points made, I take the responsibility seriously, I just want to avoid the £150+VAT ph electrician who wants that for a 20 minute job. One random question though - if I did...

Thanks for your posts, yes sorry I hadn't made clear it is my flat. If the testing is compulsory then I guess I'll go down the electrician route, but here's the bit that confuses me: I know plenty of DIYers who will add a fused spur, replace some downlights, wire a plug, and none of them have...

Hi everyone, I've got a flat with electrical heating and hot water. The timer on the immersion heater is a Greenbrook T106-C (http://www.greenbrook.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=T106-C) and has become faulty. I need to do a like for like replacement. 10 minute job. I do a lot of my own electrical...

Thanks for the replies everyone much appreciated. I think this weird setup is lack of planning at first fix. The wall goes through slight curve here and I expect the thinking at first fix was that the plasterboard would be closer to the back box than it is. Evidence of this is adjacent to the...

I'm fitting a fused spur at the moment and I took off the 2-gang socket I was going to spur from and was presented with this behind the socket (photo below) There is a metal back box screwed to the block wall, with quite a gap between it and the front face of the plaster. The face plate had...

I took the old 1.5mm2 feed to the first downlight, and daisychained the 1mm2 from there Thanks, that's what I thought. I was asking about sign off to make sure that it's not only theoretically ok but ok under building regs too

Hi, I've got a 2009 built flat that came with some pendant lights and I set about replacing them with some fixed (bulb not replaceable) Aurora M7 LED downlights I daisy-chained the new downlights to the existing feed. At the time I noticed the existing feed was 1.5mm2, though my new wire for...

Thanks! Much appreciated!