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Sorry guys. It was me. Didn’t have any 3 amp fuses for my clock radio so I stuck a 13 in! Thought it would be okay short term!

I cannot work out whether the op is a troll or just ‘one of those’ customers

What are you on about? Who has said anything about a self employed electrician being foreman. It is YOU who is calling themselves a foreman. However employing the services of a self employed electrician would require them to have the knowledge, skills, qualification and experience to deal with...

I think it’s pretty clear from your attitude your previous electrician won’t be returning and I don’t blame him. However, whilst you may be paying someone to do the work you are the customer, not the foreman. To be the foreman, by definition, you would have to be qualified in the work you are...

Look at it this way. If you have a fire (not necessarily down to the tails being moved) and the cause is deemed to be electrical (fwiw I have seen electrical listed as cause where there was no other explanation reasonable) the paperwork you have no longer corresponds to the installation you...

Nope. Sorry no prize. This is not part p notifiable. As previously stated this is beyond the remit of DIY whether you ‘can connect three wires’ or not. You have been given the advice whether it is what you want to hear or not. If you choose not to take it then get on with it and stop going on...

Yes, those ones! As you will be reterminating them, you risk voiding any paperwork that you have for your signed off installation. As it would not be in the condition the electrician left it in!

Why does this have to be an issue? Clearly you have your own agenda here, and you don’t really want our advice, as we’ve told you what you already know! You will probably learn the hard way that utility companies have rules and you can’t get round them! If that’s what they want it’s what...

I’m not really sure what you want to hear but if that is what they have got in Black and white then that is what you must do. They have told you the alternative FWIW, there is a difference between you being able to connect the the tails and it being safe, correctly done and tested/certified...

Yes but this work is really beyond the remit of someone who is non qualified. Do you have the tools necessary to test once the supply is connected, earth loop impedance, polarity etc. It is more than a case of connecting three wires.

WPD have always moved meters for me on service alterations. Some DNOs won’t however! I have been present on all service alterations I have been involved with (usually because I end up organising them!) and I usually charge a days labour, though as often the CU needs moving or a submain...

I would be looking for dimmers, neons. Have you got any fluorescent fittings, transformers More simply, have you left the lamps in the fittings?

I don’t think it makes much difference to the issue at hand though?

Ah seeing that, it does appear to use the suppliers earth so disregard my last post. I would still recommend getting the rcd tested, as clearly something is not right

If that’s the case is there another trip switch between the meter and the consumer unit? As with a TT system as you have described the non rcd circuits on that consumer unit will not disconnect under a live - earth fault, generally speaking

It could also be that the rcd itself is faulty, as it is an older unit, but as above it needs testing with a proper rcd tester. Out of interest how is the property earthed? Could you post a picture of your meter/cutout

Can you post a picture of your meter/consumer unit? Is it only the hoover that trips it? Always the same socket, or at different points in the house?

Not good practice to fit the three flexes into the plug (if that’s how I read it) would be better to split the flex at a junction box and have one flex at the plug

His name is Buster, and he gets up to some mischief! (No one make any reference to the tv show bodger and badger)

Agreed, most likely that one time when it didn’t go bang, would never happen again if you tried to make it happen!