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Lets have a piccy of the offending item from where it enters the building to the meter and onto the CU and if you feel macho a piccy of the CU without its cover if you feel safe popping open the covers

where it says PME system is there a green/yellow cable heading off somewhere and do you think you can trace it? don't try and wiggle cables too much to find out

I'd head up into the loft and start checking nothings come lose when you tugged on the cables to get a bit more slack just kill the power and get a good torch and some old clothes and get checking so start where the power comes up from the CU and work your way from box to box checking...

spots spelling mistake and laughs knowing full well that for the next 1000 years every post will be checked and mocked for spelling accuracy :p but its a nice device that i've been unable to find a similar thing for, its a basic device that just magnifies the size on a scale but it does it...

Got the fridge freezer ran off its own circuit here and that at least should something trip the ring circuit i wont wake up to a freezer worth of mush, but since it about a foot away from the CU it wasn't exactly much effort other than drilling a hole to run the cable

Best advice as a DIY'er i can give is to before starting take a picture of what it looks like at the moment with the cover removed and the power off now normally its just a undo the two screws holding the cable and then remove the old fitting, attach new fitting to the ceiling and reconnect the...

Always worth taking out the hard drive and reseating it as sometimes the connections can get a bit lose.

I got a plastic drill measuring device that you pop a drill into it and it tells you the size down to 1/10th of a MM for upto 7 MM drills and theres room on the back to glue a laminated table its probably 20-30 years old from when my dad was in engineering but its something i've not seen...

One of the things i've noticed with some UPS's is their start up current draw when power is restored as we've had some that state a 16amp breaker is fine but the initial load will be a bit too much for a 16amp breaker as the attached kit fires up and it starts to recharge the battery at the same...

What are you trying to power? probably you can run it all from a single 13A spur if its networking gear and maybe some 1U servers but it depends on the load // not a sparkie but an it guy who has spent enough time in the infrastructure design to know the site sparkies number when needed but...

Since my mum doesn't care about what particular type of earthing it is so long as it works and doesn't fancy paying for someone to come and fix the board from TT to a DNO supplied earth as she had the enture house rewired about 5 years ago so everything should be fine obviosly if the DNO...

New cutout fitted, but was a bit scary when they're using a blow torch to melt all the old pitch off the cables about 2 feet from the gas meter, they didn't upgrade it to PME (currently TT) but the cutout has space for it so i'd imagine it'll be ready for it should they decide to upgrade the...

Cheers, i'll give them a ring in the morning but is there anything special i could mention that will make them come out quicker? ;)

Just had a look at my parents cutout while i was grabbing some stuff from the cupboard and noticed the sealant was leaking onto the pipework beneath it, is it worth ringing up the DNO to get the cutout sorted as its still the original 1930's one?