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Only UKPN may carry out alterations to the existing network. Service lines are not network.[/b]

Your problem is lack of ventilation. To avoid the damp problems you now have, you'll have to exchange some of the damp warm room air with the cold air from outside. The cold outside air, even if it's damp, will become very dry when it warms up inside. Yes, you'll lose heat warming up the...

Never got my hands dirty :oops: I used to give advice and write reports on electricity supply economics in foreign countries. For example developing a system for setting cost-reflective tariffs. So my PI covered me for all the work I did. My point was that PI is not really applicable to an...

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Supposing one of the 7/11 terrorists survived by some miracle but all the innocents still died. I'd say "pity". Would you still call me disgusting? Or are you really the same as me, except you have a higher threshold before you think someone ought to have paid the ultimate penalty for his sins?

He can't afford a bidet so he washes his danglies in the bog. Err-- Bidets don't count either even though they have a sprayer.

You might get £25 for it on ebay.

In principle, you can get a contractor of your choice to do it. He has to be approved for working on the DNO's installation. Ask UK Power Networks for a list of contractors approved for the provision of connections.

Yes, that's more like it. Before I retired my PI insurance for £1m international cover was £880 a year with £1000 excess. The PI insurance specifically excluded "the supply, manufacture, sale, installation or maintenance of any product". It covers negligent misstatements, breach of...

It's unusual for houses to have central bedroom lights. The light is usually placed a couple of feet in front of the window. This was certainly the case for houses built in the last centuary. I'm not so sure though that modern houses adopt the same tradition.

Lux is Lumens per square meter. A downlighter is more efficient than a hanging GLS lamp at putting lux on a table top underneath it. So a hanging lamp emitting 1000 lumens might illuminate the table with 100 lux compared to a downlighter with a 1000 lumen lamp which might illuminate the table...

In my opinion you should tell your client to employ a consulting engineer to design and specify the work. That will make it easy for you just following his design.

As gsaschedule has bumped this year-old post up I thought I'd add something. Someone mentioned that the payback was "9 or 10 years". That's a dreadfully poor investment. You could put your money into Chelsea Building Society now paying 3.1% and get a better return over any number of...

I built a Z80 machine in 1976 and spent happy hours programming it in assembly. I never got an assembler but I did write a FORTH compiler. This was a very quirky language, but highly compact. The core of the compiler was written in assembly and the bells & whistles in FORTH itself. A...

When you or whoever originally applied for a connection to the DNO's distribution system, you declared what load you would want. The connection would then be provided to cater for that load. If you want to add additional load, you should ask to redeclare your load requirement. If you're unlucky...

Seems to me that the requirement for an isolator mainly occurs because the consumer's isolator is integrated with the distribution board in the form of a consumer unit. If the consumer had an isolator/switchfuse followed by a distribution board then there would not be a problem. So why should...

You can't say that Russ Andrews is expensive when the 2.5mm² G/Y single core is more expensive at B&Q.

Work on a consumer's connection to the DNO's distribution network (i.e. before the meter or the cutout) is NOT limited to the DNO. The work can be done by anyone, provided they are accredited. Look under "Independant Connections Provider) in UK Power Networks' here

The nearest approximation to an LV distribution ring is the circuits that link substations. These are often incorporated into distribution systems so that supplies can be maintained during substation maintanance. Normally the circuit also supplies consumers and has manually disconnectable...

In 5 years time a bit of the artex that looks OK now might start to peel off under your new plaster. Overboard it.