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    Electric toaster

    Roll in Part "P"........
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    Rewiring Loft Conversion

    Split the existing ringmain and lighting circuit to incorporate you proposed wiring and then identify them on your fuse board.
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    Damaged Downpipe

    I have contacted my insurance company to which they can provide no assistance.
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    Damaged Downpipe

    After a bit of advice with regards to a neighbours damaged downpipe. As the pipe enters the ground and bends round it has cracked open leaving the rainwater to soak into the ground which in turn has entered my basement (not used as a basement although 6-7ft deep). Presumably this has caused the...
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    RCD protection

    Just for example, what would you code these departures.... 1) Earthing conductor not installed from suppliers facility to DB. 2) Main equipotential bonding conductor not installed to water/gas etc. 3) Supplementary protection not satisfied to sockets reasonably expected to power equipment...
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    RCD protection

    I really cant see your point...The guy asked a question to which got answered only. If the guy asked for a coding on other items I would of offered the NICEIC recommendations. I dont always agree with the NICEIC, and never will do because the guys who call the shots have probably never seen a...
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    Electrics and plastering

    Just to offer some defence to the questioned electrician, I myself have been stumped by plasterers who like to hide and plaster over cables / socket boxes, granted these where not live. This electrician may have been offering a solution to the plasterer to make his job easier, when the...
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    RCD protection

    Just to annoy people NICEIC recommend code '1' (thats what they tell us anyways)
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    Materials list

    Yeah right !
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    Consumer Unit Positioning

    You can have the rod in the crawl space as long as its <100Ohms. (Make a label stating the location) Not to sure what you mean about the RCD, but a TT system requires that the installation is protected by an RCD usually 100mA although a 30mA is required for supplementary protection. Cant...
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    Electrical testing and inspection (exam next week)

    My only recommendation is that you go over previous exam papers, as most of the questions will come up in some way or other.....
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    Alarm Installation - as hard as it looks?

    Insurance companies can be funny, I had to get the company I work for to install the alarm so that I got all the required documentation etc.....Just that thing with letting another "engineer" loose in your house.....They stuck a Galaxy panel in, which did confuse me.......(probably not that...
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    Consumer Unit Positioning

    Go for what plug suggested, creating a distribution circuit, have the position where you want then.....
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    Materials list

    Red & Black conductors.......(what are they?) :roll:
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    Re: New Colours

    sorry been away from these conversations...... Any-hoos.... Seems that the colour change has been brought in so that a rough time-scale for the installation can be determined for Part "P"....I could be way off and this may have been mentioned before, but I really dont want to read all the...
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    Electrical/Plumbing?

    Sounds like the element has gone to me.......
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    RCD tester

    If you need any spare parts, let me know......reason being, the engineers (so called) like to put them across 3 phase.......Now using the Avo/Meggers LCB series which can take 3 phase.....
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    Downrating cable?

    You can use 4.0mm on a 2.5mm circuit.....but not the other way round.... Or maybe thats what your saying..... I would use the 2.5mm as a temporary job only....
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    selecting consumer units

    You only have yourself to blame.......
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    Now this is VERY interesting....

    I dont want to make anemones, but this is getting lob(ster) sided......(very very lame)...... Any-hoos off to get some Turkish money (for Sunday)......yes a week away from a PC and all this sea banter..... 8)
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