Recent content by phil_ballard

When I bought my little garage CU (Volex) it came with a sheet of about 8 stickers - the words on them are not garage-specific, so I assume the packers pull them out of a huge box and stuff one in each CU. Maybe the helpdesk at one of the CU manufacturers would bung a few sheets your way? Or...

Oh come on Ban, you know he's talking about a CU! :roll: Albert, you obviously have a PC; get a few sheets of label paper and you can print an labels you like ....

Looking at the pic of the wider view; the meter board seems to be held to the wall via a screw and spacer at each corner. If these were removed, is there enough flexibility in the incoming cables to safely move the whole board - meter, fuse and all - enough to withdraw the fuse?

Surely the riskiest thing about this is somebody (even onesself) coming along later and adding some other cct to the SOURCE side when they think (and the terminals say) they've added it to the LOAD side?

How do elec fences work? Do I recall someone telling me they're low-voltage DC, or have I made that up?

I don't think there's any way of heating water there, other than electrically (no hot tank etc) - heating is plug-in convectors, hot water in the kitchenette is via that device described in my initial post .... I'll have a look

Nope, they're definitely individual electric ones - I'll have a proper look next time I'm there

Thanks for that. I'll see whether any of the colleges around here (Surrey) 'stoop' to such things or whether they're too busy with 'Flower Arranging 3' and 'Advanced 4x4 Techniques for the School Run'

May well be - as I said, I haven't seen the CU or incoming power arrangements

I think it was 8 - I'll try to get a photo (when they're empty, you'll be pleased to hear). Dunno what power they are ...

I know this is a 'how long's a piece of string' question but ... If I were to do either 2381 and/or 2391, what options do I have (types of establishment, courses, duration etc) and what is likely to be the (range of) costs? I have a 9-5 job so would prefer out-of-hours, correspondence or...

Yep .... except this isn't really a pub-type-club, it's just a little 1-storey brick-built thing by the pitch, with changing rooms etc and a little kitchenette. I know what you mean though, my local hostelry has spot lights screwed to ancient beams and conencted up with a mix of T+E, 2-core...

Thanks guys. I don't know the RCD arrangements (if any) as I haven't seen the CU area. I think I can probably guess though, looking at everything else (multiple unfused spurs surface-clipped off one ring socket, 8 electric showers with no visible equi bonding anywhere, loose or broken...

I don't. But I don't want them to get hurt. And I have no authority to call in a spark, as I'm not even a club member, let alone committee. And they won't call one in, coz it's already on the cards for some (elastic) time in the future. Maybe I'll just keep my head down. How unsafe is it...

My girlfriend is secretary of a local football club; when I was there on Saturday I noticed that the kitchen water heater (one of those wall mounted barrel-shaped things with a chrome pipe outlet over the sink) was powered by a length of twin and earth terminated in a 13A plug and plugged into...