Recent content by mikeeboy

Sleaving it with plastic pipe is fine by me as long as i don't have to move it after my new kitchen / conservatory is built thanks boys

Who pays me or the power company and idea ?

Hi guys, need some advice please, whilst digging out my new build extension today i came across the power cable that feeds my house and probably my nieghbours also. Whats the right thing to do here it will run just above the new concrete slab when we fill the footings which are 600mm wide and...

sounds like a blocked matrix especially if its hot for a few seconds and then goes luke warm, i have a scenic and its got a bloody good heater, watch out for oil in the water, abs light not going off due to cracked target rings on the driveshafts

What i would do is check that you don,t have a drain on the battery or get someone else to do so, a 1 amp drain on a battery over a week wont help it make sure you pop the front off the radio etc if it has a light on it that does not go off with the ignition. Our fit a battery isolator there...

I would try cleaning up all the battery terminals, and chassis earths and the positive at the starter. What frequently happens is there is enough current to run your dash lights etc, until you crank the engine which requires a lot more current then the dirty connection arc's and sparks and...

Well im sorry i upset you, i forgot you were trying to help me. Strange sort of help though, sounded more to me like lets have a go at the engineer, still i suppose only having 3 wires to deal with all day is a bit of a no brainer !! you obviously need to let off steam when you get home, I had...

Maybe the building control guy does not work on sundays, and as far as im concerned my local sparkie of 25 years said i could do the work as long as it was checked afterwards. ps thanks for the help you gave me it will go a long way to finding any potential safty issues with my wiring !!!!!!!

How do i meausure that please, im an engineer more used to 24volts.

Hi just fitted new consumer unit to replace old ceramic fuse type, wired ring main and immersion and cooker etc to rcd side and it trips all the time. even if i switch off all mcb's on rcd side of unit and then turn on just the main rcb its trips off, if i run everything from normal non rcd...