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Just one thing to consider- looking at the picture of your cutout and main earth etc, That main bare earth which is plummed onto the lead looks quite small and also from experience that cutout will only have a maximum of a 60A fuse inside. I'd mention this to the sparky and possible get the DNO...

This is one thing i don't understand- My meter order form at work has various types of meters on it and there is a few single phase ones and one says '1 ph adaptive with isolator' and theres '1 ph 1 rate' both essentially do exactly the same thing but one type has a built in isolator- the ampy...

Me and my work colleague changed an old cast iron cutout a couple of months ago and it had re-wireable fuses on pole the live and the neutral. It was so old we think the service cable feeding it might of been jute (jute string insulation soaked in oil rather than papers) No one really knows they...

hmm i wonder how (or if) they managed to fill that cutout with pitch? seems an awkward way of installing it!

I had one in my old car and used it when the heater matrix decided to break. Put it this way- I would of been better off sitting round a cigarette for warmth!

I found one of these things when clearing out my uncles old shed and it's in the loft being used to power two 60w bulbs instead of one :P

Yes and what made me feel even more stupid is that i'm a cable jointer and assume is one of the most frowned upon words about in our company!

It could of been worse- my house has two ring mains for the sockets, one for downstairs and one for upstairs. I was changing a socket upstairs and I turned off the breaker for upstairs and unscrewed the socket followed by the terminals and pulled the socket free leaving two reds, two blacks and...

take some pictures too

Ok, so I'm up in the loft preparing to put some new insulation down and go around pulling all the 1.5 lighting t&e up over the fiberglass to prevent overheating. I traced where it all went so i can check the terminations and tightness in junction boxes etc before i get too involved. Lifted up a...

ah my dad (works for bt) has one of those ohmmeter things in his garage and has done for years. I have no idea what its for or what its supposed to do, i have over the years several times attempted to get it to do something but i can't work it out

Seen this done before.... jessies

No the engine management light has not been on at any time (it does work as it lights up when the ignition is turned on with the other indicator and warning lamps on the dash), could it be a bad connection somewhere? It is french after all!

Hmm.. yeah i could give that a go, I replaced the plugs at just under 100k and it's nearly on 120k now so maybe?

I've had this car for 3 1/2 years and done nearly 40k in it with nothing major. Drove it to cardiff on thursday which is about 95 miles from my house and got to 11 miles left on the tomtom and when driving in a 50mph limit, I realised that i'd lost alot of power. It was misfiring and wouldn't...

The hole was being drilled as the house was having sky installed. The cable is a bit of 35mm concentric fed from overheads and no, the substation fuses didn't blow there was just a bang!

Just be careful or this might happen!

My mums peugeot 106 1.1 developed a problem with it's starter motor where it was turning over very slowly and then hardly at all with the starter motor leads getting hot. Long story short..... I took out the starter and noticed that a chunk of metal had broken off it and fallen into the clutch...

The scruffy gits! I take pride in my installations, i would never leave anything in such a state!

very lucky! I still don't know how i came off so well when i touched the live and neutral wires of a socket i was changing that happened to still be live (upstairs, every socket upstairs is on one ring main- except this one! so i found out!) I unscrewed the connectors and removed the...