Recent content by Ross1978

Stripped it down, olives were hardly compressed, I could pull them off quite easily despite maybe overtightening the nuts. I think I must have put so much compound in that I couldn't tighten up the nuts against the olive. Also two of the nuts on the compression adapter were out of round so me...

Hello good people Have a Spirocross AX header on our system, which has had a slow leak from the 2 couplers on one side since I bought the house last year. We've just had the boiler moved, and I've done all the wet piping up myself, so I thought I'd strip down the header and re-do the joints...

OK - Exciting update follows. I see I have given you guys plenty of talking points on the regs! National Grid guy came round this morning and had a look inside their box (pic below). The earth lead coming from their box is not connected internally to anything. If it was connected that metal...

Thanks for the comments guys, very interesting. DNO couldn't tell me so they are sending someone out next week. No labels in sight. To address the query about the building type, it is steel frame construction so may well tick that box. Will see what the guy says next week!

Hello good people - one for the knowledgable sparks here.... I have bought a house which has a small warehouse unit on the land, which has its own 100Amp 3 Phase supply. I have concerns over the installation so I've asked 3 electricians now to come and take a look, and I am getting conflicting...