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That was what I meant by 'the sparkie in question'. I have a weird way of phrasing things.

Caveat - I'm not an electrician, but ready to be shot down if this info is out of date or wrong 8) I wonder whether you'd be better doing a building control notice to the council than using an electrician who isn't giving you this advice? As I understand it, the sparkie in question would...

So, was this entire thread a false alarm then?

Hi John, Yes the freezer plugged into this circuit is the tenants' property (otherwise an FCU would be an obvious solution which is where I assume you are going with this). Many thanks. Have a good weekend all!

Is there any reason an RCBO may trip except due to a fault on the circuit it serves? If so, I would agree, but why, in which case, has the installer bothered to fit this circuit as is?

Thank you for your thoughtful and divergent comments. While I see the Mr Thick point, he could also plug multiple electric heaters into a socket and damage it, and many other ways he could injure himself electrically and non-electrically that I could think of, were it not bedtime. Old type...

Another good reason to split the installation over more than one inverter :)

I would be very interested in any data on premature failure of solar modules (panels). The Centre for Alternative Technology has some very old (20 years ish) panels branded by BP of all people. They seem to have aged in accordance with the notes I took at a C.A.T. Renewable Energy Systems...

Hi there, Have just had a Period Inspection and PATs done to a house I rent out. Have been advised by the guy doing the inspection that it is no longer permitted to have a non-RCD Freezer circuit and I should change to an RCBO, but he seemed unsure. The freezer socket is clearly...

Good point!

OP: Try it and read your meters is all I can say. You seem to understand how to do so, so might as well run the experiment. There are many variables and sometimes you don't get the results you would expect to get. In one house I lived in, I used slightly more gas if I ran the heating...

Who said I was using it for a plumbing-related purpose? :shock:

Yes, I was living alone in 3 bed and saw my bills go from 500 a year to about 140 a year. I had an 8l flush toilet (9 litres minus 1 litre) which I flushed every time I used it, ran two washloads a week in my 1990 washing machine, had 10 minute showers (not every day though) washed up by...

I wondered if that was the reason, given how thick iron pipe tends to be. So this sort of price comparison seems normal then?

Copper tube (Wickes retail) 3m 15mm for £7.74, so £6.45 excl. Local plumbers' merchant: 3m 1/2" Black iron pipe £16 excl. 3m 1/2" Galv iron pipe £20 excl. I thought copper was supposed to be expensive? I know there's trade and retail cost, but these are both retail prices so...

I guess it depends on whether the builder deliberately overestimated the job or not. If he didn't, then it's no good him giving you a discount, as, with quotes, a business will expect to win on some what it loses from the others. You say 'quote (verbal estimate)'. Which? A quote can be verbal...

If that's the case fair enough, I agree. I don't know the exact circumstances as I have only read the Telegraph article posted above and have no inside information. In spite of the attention-grabbing headline, all the article actually says is that M&S has chosen to let staff opt out from...

In my case, it was a small coop with one counter: impractical to modify the job description. It would NOT have been wrong for me to try to negotiate, simply I could not see how the management could have used me. In a large supermarket, it may be different. There will be many counters, and if...

Hmm. An interesting one. I once applied for a job at a local Coop, then decided I wouldn't feel comfortable selling people tobacco products and withdrew my application. In my case this was a moral decision, not a religious one, but I considered that selling tobacco would be an integral part...

I'm not an electrician, so bear that in mind, but shouldn't you be testing the resistance to earth rather than across the elements? After all, an RCD detects an earth leak... though I dare say this post comes 2 years too late! Leccy758 and others have already suggested this, but your...