Recent content by TheWizard

Cheers buddy, when doinng the 2 way would you recommend drawing the strappers grey and black with brown markers, as if it was 3-core, or do you treat this type of drawing as single cores and jtherefore just do both strappers and common brown?

Hi, Could somebody take a quick look at this connection diagram for a 1 way lighting circuit using a junction box and tell me if it is acceptable? Its for my 1st year project and we always loop in at the switch so I'm having to use me ol' finger to trace the lines and make sure I've did it...

Thanks guys for the help

What's that supposed to mean prick

I didn't say you could. I was only asking out of interest, I'm starting my apprenticeship so I don't really care whether you can or cant

Probably meaning not getting an electricians rate then!

I notice a lot of posts on this forum about c&g qualifications and testing certificates. Is it now possible to be an electrician without serving your time for 3 or 4 years?

Hi guys, hopefully you can help me. Just before I moved into my flat a new bathroom suite was fitted. Soon after this I noticed the floor in a kitchen cupboard was damp and on inspection I found water had seeped through most partitions and the bathroom carpet was gradually getting wetter...

All these guys knocking back apprenticeships............................. Silly Silly

sounds like the mains in an out is at the switch

Hello Baldelectrician, I have experience and think I could be of use to you. Is it a job your proposing or a freebie work experience!?

I understand it perfectly now, if you read my post I wanted to know what way the 3 core translated onto the simplified diagram I drew. When I asked the spark, he told me all that I had to do on that diagram was put the light on to one leg and the mains onto the other and connect both ends with...

Listen, I asked someone to explain it to me. I didn't ask you to tell me what I should or shouldn't do- I'm aware that I'm not an electricion. I have in interest on the topic and I asked someone who I thought would be helpful and give me a run down so it was up to you whether you gave me the...

Ok guys I was only asking, and I didn't need to know how to position the wires I already knew that, Anyways I asked a spark and he explained it fully. Obviously I didn't know that using that diagram the light would be on one strapper and the mains in on the other, or the light...

What is sticky? If you mean the "How to" section I've checked that and it doesn't really make sense to me as I can already wire one in a new build, I just want to know what purpose each cable serves to make the set-up work. I can understand how it works in the following diagram, where if both...