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Although that wont stop these so called engineers/fitters who will come to install a cooker and then refuse to do it due to nearby sockets etc...

To add to the off topic conversation.... There's a restaurant near me that serve food on those stones (called "black rock") and the cut of steak is amazing and cutting as thick/thin as you like and to your own taste too. Highly recommend trying it if you get the opportunity near you and like...

Ok that cable isn't as bad as we feared and it looks pretty chunky to say the least. securespark has posted the equivalent that should be suitable for you, give them a call to see if they can sell you a few (get some spares or if you plan to replace any others) or ask where the nearest...

You could try speaking to that sales guy to try and get him to pull some weight to get it moved FOC (I wouldn't hold your breath though). Yup sales people will say almost anything to get the sale, and then happily walk away and leave the back office/customer dealing with any fallout...

It's common for newer sockets to have only a single terminal for the Live and Neutral (one for each that is) and that often only the earth has 2 terminals so you might struggle to find one. Unless someone on here knows of a specific one. However you mention braided cable... some of your cables...

Flush pipe connector is probably worn or that extension (black) piece isn't long enough to keep is securely inserted and its coming out under pressure. Get a replacement flush pipe pan connector and get a decent rubber one not the plastic/pvc ones as they leak/come out easily. If that pipe is...

Do you know if they meant you had no earth to places like sockets and light switches? or was it no earth to your consumer unit/fuse box? Do you have anything that says RCD? Could you perhaps post some pictures of your fuse box, cables etc...? BTW who was it that checked your electrics? And...

Mine was based on the installation manual saying 200mA with no other mention of voltage except 230v in this section. However they could of meant 200mA @ 12v? Equipment Electrical Rating The control equipment is designed to operate on a mains supply of 230 Volts a.c. (230 V +10% -15%) at a...

That's good news by the sounds of it. I wonder if the external sired are either dummy, weren't part of this installation or their batteries failed a long time ago. Either way fingers crossed its all decommissioned.

In normal use the panel consumes at max 200mA, so a quick estimate puts the yearly cost probably somewhere around £40-60 (estimate as I have no idea what you pay or the actual consumption). That assumes your panel is consuming the 200mA which it probably isn't so expect that cost to be a little...

Those two outside ones are the ones most likely with batteries, the 2 other internal ones are unlikely to have batteries and are probably powered from the panel directly (1 is probably just a speaker too). Can you post some pictures of the internal ones? That way we can tell you if they are...

Turning off the circuit breaker, opening the panel and disconnecting the battery will be enough to decommission the panel. However if you have external sirens, these will have their own battery which will cause them to continue to go off until either a set period (20-30min) or until those...

I'm guessing this magic wand was probably just a tone generator/detector to find the pairs... but who knows.

I have seen some documents stating that there has to be a hand basin with hot water available, but whether this applies in your case I'm not sure. Perhaps this will be dictated by your local authority when/if you need to notify them of the intended repurpose of the garage? Assuming you have also...

What is the purpose of the conduit? where is it going to? The only real options are putting it underground away from accidental damage, or using some cable designed to be clipped to walls (but its still visible and ugly) or using some metal/galvanized conduit. Perhaps there is an alternative...

You can quote and reply in the same post btw. As for the next step, you need to speak to your insurance company and explain what they did/didnt do and that your not satisfied with the testing (or lack of) that happened, and if they can have someone else actually do the testing so that you/they...

If the 3rd party electrician didn't use any tester then I'm not sure how he could report back to them saying it "passed". What did he actually test/do to the cooker? Or was you not present throughout his inspection/testing?

Was this actually a sky engineer or a OpenReach/BT one? If you can get some more info on what he actually did and some pictures that would help. I'm pretty sure a sky engineer wouldn't (or shouldn't) be fitting a master socket as this is BT's property and should only be done by them or...

Never heard of any telephone sockets causing any phones to blow (not that it couldn't happen in theory). Did he replace the existing BT master socket with a new one? As for knowing if it will be easy to sort..., unfortunately without knowing how these are wired up wrong we cant say. However...

Did you not explain what you wanted when you asked him to do some work for you? Usually issues like this are just due to lack of communication. Equally the opposite could of happened where they bought and fitted new valves and customer says the old ones were perfectly fine.