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    Anyone seen this before

    nor do I but what were their assumptions ? Did they include a fudge of at 4m its assumed there are 4 x 90 degree bends in the cable because they assume 1 in 2m, did they assume that a cable of 2m will not require a thermal load calculation but a 4m one will ?
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    Anyone seen this before

    That's the point, they do make sense when you base you regulation on another set of assumptions... in lots of cases. There is a degradation of confidence of that regulation as the basic assumptions are excluded, just instead the new regulation is presented without its assumptions leading to...
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    Anyone seen this before

    My two pennies worth is that the industry needs to make up "regulations" or advice as its known due to the intellectual calibre of those its intended to guide. Sparkies have a book to read and digest, the big brown one, but then that's a bit complex as its already dumbed down physics to make it...
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    EICR, landlord and Electrician

    Wrong john, we are talking about contractual matters, the contract between a tennant and landlord is governed by the law of Tort or case law, in this case a tenancy agreement has various sections within it that are sepcific and others that are implied as is the case with most case law. All...
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    EICR, landlord and Electrician

    Landlords are responsible for appliances....it has nothing to do with any requirement under any electrical regulation, its contract law. Goods supplied must be of good working order and as such is a civil matter not a statutory matter and is a matter between the tenant and the landlord...
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    Adding a garden tap to a garden some way from the house...

    You have to be a bit careful with that understanding, pvc based pipes begin loose their ductile properties at 0 c and then degrade with each degree of temperature drop, whilst they themselves will rarely fail the associated couplers can fairly easily deform and leak that's why we drain ours...
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    Adding a garden tap to a garden some way from the house...

    We just drain out the water to two holiday rentals on our property over winter by using a wet vac on a union, crack the furthest tap and lower the pressure soon pumps it self .. remember that from physics, disparate air pressure and momentum ? But why are you bothering... drain the water you...
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    New sockets - from which ring?

    wow do you live in a stately home harry... 24 circuits in one house, I would hate to see you leccy bill just how much juice are you sucking through that installation. Have you built a replica of Blackpool illuminations and pleasure beach?
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    Weed Matting

    I have two 60sqm drives both gravel both with the woven weed membrane, never had an issue in 8 years, sure some weeds take hold in the gravel but you can pull those out easily and to be fair we just spray ours once a year in march, job done. we used...
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    New sockets - from which ring?

    apart from those living in exposed locations who has had a power cut in the last 40 years.... you can almost tell which newspapers a person reads and takes their click bait as gospel... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dailymail+national+grid&atb=v395-1&ia=web
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    New sockets - from which ring?

    No it won't, most of the wiring will be going up to the first floor, so if you are prepared to take down a bit of plaster board from the ceiling for the wires to be dragged back to the new location its pretty easy. Wiring can be easily extended. The only issue will be where the meter is and how...
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    New sockets - from which ring?

    First off you can do what you like in your own house, second even though the wiring may be old it can still be perfectly serviceable. If it was me I would get the wiring checked out to see if its degraded, Isolate the each circuit at the circuit breaker and check for any green goo behind the...
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    Wires clarity

    My point was why... its going to be a right mess dragging in cables , changing the lighting back box to one that will take a socket. He has not identified what that circuit did or does... was it a for control under cab lights ? What cable size is it ? Where are you going to take the feed from ...
  14. M

    Wires clarity

    Its a lighting circuit with no earth so you cannot charge it to a socket as its just a live in and live out.
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    Immersion heater element RCD tripping

    its not difficult to test... multimeter will do the job, it could be the thermostat that has gone duff and you can replace that without draining down. see https://www.mmlplumbing.co.uk/testing-an-immersion-heater/
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    Cable connections/junction box- slight emergency

    No it never sets hard you just peel it off... and why would the connections need working on ?
  17. M

    Cable connections/junction box- slight emergency

    https://www.toolstation.com/raytech-magic-gel-ip68/p47003 pour it into the box and fill the box.
  18. M

    Cable connections/junction box- slight emergency

    or you could just gel pack it.
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    Replacement Smoke Alarms

    broadly but the aico unit has a base and the fireangle has a plug in module and tbh have not seen if the battery back up for the aico wifi is user swappable as is the fireangle
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    Replacement Smoke Alarms

    Fireangle do a system where the RF module just plugs into the base of the detector, they also do a combined panic, test and silence switch. They were brilliant for a 4 storey stairwell in a grade 2 building,.as the battery backup for the Rf is user swappleable. see...
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