Recent content by Mikefromlondon

Were they builder, decorator and a painter

Aah got you, so you are kind of fat speaking figuratively !

But.....Thanks for your help in helping me.

Any ways time is money, I certainly don't want you to think why both RCBOs were tripping when a specific light was being switched on in the upper Hall way, which also happened to be a two way light, which in itself is irrelevant, it could have been a single switched light, but the problem was...

Very true John, and Efl, but we all must learn to walk before we can run, we are all getting old, retiring, new generation are coming into the scene, with less experience, this electrician was relatively young man, and I could not afford to delay getting an ECIR as now required by law, so had...

Thanks guys, but I did have my doubts, he may well require it, so i went prepared, took with me 3meter length of 10mil earth conductor and 5 earthing clamps, as soon as he suggested that, i showed him this thread but he didn't read all of it but insisted that in the event of any electrical...

Update, the Electrician did all his checks, using his apparatus, and conducted visual observations, took out a few sockets randomly to examine inside, etc, checked the CU, and was satisfied with almost everything until he came to the utility room where the boiler and most of the copper pipework...

10 stones

I am not sure if your comments are directed at me, the plastic water incoming service pipe enters the property through ground straight into the utility room which is at the back of the house towards the rear garden, furthest away from the front of the house where the equipotential bonding is. It...

Ok here is why I asked this question and my concern, suppose and yes it is based on an unlikely occurrence, but such incidents can happen even if the odds are against it. Say the incoming service pipe is plastic and cannot be bonded to earth, and at some point after the stop cock the rest of the...

Thanks mate, much obliged. (I was obviously referring to metal pipe sections if they would need earthing)

In a property where the incoming water mains is supplied via a PVC pipe, and is not bonded to earth but in sections after the stop cock, some of the plumbing has been carried out in copper 15mm pipes, using plastic to metal adaptors, so the question is since water itself is not a very good...

Yes I totally agree but I would say F*** the people who make such policies.......Its not the Londoners, its the idiots who run for the mayor

Thanks mate, yup it is what I couldn't come up with, are there many roofers still using this method, just seen blocks of bitumen available to melt and pour to repair any cracks, or perhaps cracks mat be repaired just by torching the bitumen around cracks, not sure if this would work, bearing in...

In 1992 my builder made me an extension, with a flat roof, he engaged a roofer who came down with a what looked like a black trailer behind a van with a huge gas fire burner heating a huge pot of bitumen, or tar like substance with smoke spewing out like a steam engine! This trailer was...