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When did you move into your current house and when did you FIL change the CU and when did you change the sockets. From April 2005 Part P was introduced and all electrical work then had to be either certified by an electrician in a competency scheme or notified to the Local building Authority...

How is the golf course in Riyadh, by the way? Me and Jeff the mad Fin played a few holes there once (50ºC). It seemed to be mostly bunker though :lol: Did you have to use your little bit of Astro turf??? Well the airport one is gone now I think. The brown is still here and Arizona as...

Are you allowed to pull your knob on here???? :shock: :shock: :shock: Becasue if you are I would have joined before..........................

Well you can do it yourself but you would have to go down the road of informing building control of what you intend doing which can be expensive well over 100 pounds. Now BC can also charge you the expense of getting all the work tested by a compentent person if they regard you as not being...

So sorry to hear that Coljack but hey mate keep plugging away. If it is any help I lost my contracting company before Christmas and was at a real low ebb, thinknig 54 no work no hope. But thing do come along mate anf if your interested send me a CV and I will put it about out here, there is...

:lol: :lol: Coljack I shudder everytime they use a jigsaw never mind a welder. I'd have guys wandering around blind with limbs missing. No an hacksaw and a rivet gun will do just fine for them. Been trying to educate them with PPE so found a lad with lovely yellow hard hat on and a brand...

Cheers Holms :D Yes I always leave a solid section to bend into the enclosure but that was mostly to ensure good earth continuity. The guys here just cut the angles into 2 pieces and plate. Have to admit I've always used Brass for earthing perhaps that is the old school of things cheers

Hi Guys Something to ask. I'm installing some 150x150 (always be 6x6 to me) Metal trunking over here and as labour is cheaper than parts, where can we say that now, we cut all our 90's and 45's. I'm the old fashioned 4mm brass nut bolts washer and spring washer type but the guys here use...

Does seem to be a bit small he may have found the sockets in the kitchen was a radial fed by a 2.5mm but even then he could have stretched it to a 20a When he gave you your EIC and schedules did he not go over the system with you and explain what was on where and why he did it. IF I had found...

Fair point Ban I always associate the word brittle with the old VIR cable but quite right PVC can burn and get brittle. Cheers

Might find that even though you have isolated the supply it still trips the RCD because you have a neutral/earth fault. Really though if that circuit is brittle due to age and it's just a light, think how a cooker or ring circuit might be!!! Best to get a sparks in to check over the system...

He as a system that texts him if the pond power goes off or it leaks water :roll: Surely then one would have people to make sure ones fish are not left to chill................ my nan knits a lovely line in pet warmers perhaps you can have one of your people contact her on the off chance

Perfectly sound and safe installation out here :wink: :wink: What is missing though is the plug being removed and wedged into the socket with matchsticks Perhaps a few places taped over even the odd choccy block with the rusted seized screw ...............ahhhhh happy days

Well played John good advice and you beat me to it :wink:

Ok adam think it's time for a check here. Where do all these sparks go to as they are all on holiday!!!! You can't complete any fixes!!! The holidaying sparks can not sign off anyones work as his own unless of course he is not part P registered and you have informed the LABC of your rewire...

Agree John biggest advantage of Radials is in the testing only R1 and R2 to do, not the ring tests as a whole. Also can be quite a chew getting legs back to the board in domestic and in commercial length of runs can be a pain. Think the idea of radials only will take on, and after all us...

Hi Athens I may be of some help here I hope. Until Feb this year I had a little contracting company which I wound up mainly because I went skint lol. No various reasons but was gutted all the same. You have all the written qualifications but what the guys are say that unless you have used...

Honestly there are no Regs appertaining to a maximum depth. In this case the regs state that if the circuit cable is not buried to a depth of 50mm then it should meet certain criteria ie RCD protected, run in certain zones etc and I'm sure yours is. Mostly we would cut a chase into a wall of...

8) 8) 8) 8) 8) Gloss black you don't know Trigger by any chance do you!!! Kelvo be honest now have you ever turned your Fridge/Freezer off by mistake and wondered what the smell was .........another daft idea from a designer who watches to much TV

Like a lot of guys on here I think in theory Part P was a good move but in practice not workable. It always amazed me that the actual company is registered and not the individual sparks. I can not see why we can not be registered like the gas safe guys, it is us the sparks that are the...