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Yesterday a customer lost all power. At the time they were having 2 showers using instant heaters and a selection of small loads: TV, lights, Christmas lights router etc. DNO fuse marked as 60A and a B63 MCB feeding T&E to Henley then CU and second T&E to granny annex. Apparently they didn't...

I have a situation where I need to remotely (~10m) operate a battery powered light which is going to be moving, the ideal solution would be a kinetic switch. The searches I've done sofar are all mains powered. I know the simple solution is very obvious except I have too many trees in the way to...

EICR just 2 faults: 'Lighting circuit incorrect RCBO rating, incorrectly labelled - C1' 'Cooker circuit incorrect RCBO rating, incorrectly labelled - C3' Being the pratt I am I didn't take my phone so no pictures but only went see what make was required. CU: 6 way all RCBO, beautifully...

I was out yesterday to a 2 way lights problem, customer had taken pics before he started (Good man). Single &E for L & SL and 3C without E. He added a metal intermediate to this by cutting and rerouting the 3C, adding some new 3C&E and a Wago box. This is how I found it but in the meantime he...

I'm going to need some tube (to support polyester stage backdrop) and plan to use 20mm steel conduit, surprised now £11 (£8.80 with my discount) at SF (most convenient for me these days), I see £8 at TLC. How does that compare with what others are getting at other wholesalers?

One of the neighbouring bungalows changed hands 3 or 4 months back, single mother with 2 under 10 (my estimate) girls, lovely friendly woman fitted right into the immediate neighbours friendship. End of June we invited neighbours for afternoon drinks and snacks including them but they were...

I've just heard from a colleague who was tasked a short while ago to isolate and make safe after: A log cabin beside an outdoor pool AKA changing room, A property I know having dealt with the pool plant. Customer was away on holiday when the fire started. The Fire Brigade report indicates the...

The chain of events leading up to this was sometime last year a contractor was removing a leylandii and hacked through what he thought was a root, the spark and loss of ring final in the house indicated otherwise. His company called in an electrician to repair the damage. There had been fairly...

A simple "Are you busy? Upstairs lights have stopped working". Customer insists nothing has been done, judging by the amount of dust in the lampshade and dead bugs in the rose I feel it is genuine:For clarity that's one red in 'N', 4 blacks in 'LOOP' and 3 reds in 'L'. My instant guess being...

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Todays 'just sort out a new light', Customer says the bathroom light failed, he took it to find a replacement and left the failed unit there for disposal. It's a circular white plastic enclosure about 200mm diameter (shown green below, the marks on the ceiling indicate the original was much...

I see MK are at last accepting their Essentials sockets are NFFP with a recall.

Just come off the phone with a colleague following a call out he attended. Small block of 6 flats on 2 levels, ground floor tenant called landlord to say water coming through ceiling and upstairs tenant works late shifts and often runs into all night. Landlord arrived and turned off water to...

Guess what the EICR code in a rental property claims to be and what the £400 plus vodka repair "by December 7th to comply with the law" is.

Without wanting to let comments spoil aother thread I wonder if you could provide a link the the document which indicates the demarcation between domestic and non domestic installations, the distinction between proper and improper and the appropriate cables and installation methods for each.

I've been out this morning helping a colleague, the reported fault was something like 'an electrician has changed a light and now the lights don't work'. This is a rental property and the new tenant reported a shock off a metal light fitting, the ceiling height is ~7ft and laying in the front...

Daughter phoned last night around 8pm... 2G switch 4 off 3C&E (2 old colours, 2 harmonised), 1 off T&E and 2off chockbloc's. My grandson (19) said it would be easy to change and brought one home from Screwfix where he works... It took a little bit of head scratching, both switches labelled as...

I have a queery regardingthe use of poly pipe after the gas meter. Visited a friend today who is in the process of having a wooden out building constructed, by the sound of it not too dissimilar to a current thread on electrics UK. Coming out of the concrete in the house and the outbuilding is a...

"Mornin Sunray. Do us a favour and sort out a switch along the road." "More 5h1t?" "Dunno, he says he's changed a 3 gang all 2 way but 5 wires except he says only 4 used. I sent Mark but he says it's something wierd and you have to go." "Interesting." I grabbed a small toolkit and a 3g...

The question is simple: what minimum cutout fuse required for 2 family homes with solid fuel heating: