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Me and a workmatefinished testing a warehouse yesterday which has approx 200 highbay fittings fixed to a metal trunking,the whole lighting installation used the metal trunking as an earth. Basically my gaffers phoned me today and carried on at me saying the building should be shut down blah...

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Ha ha, class.

Quality, i dont know how mine didnt burn out it only looked like 30A fuse wire.yours looks smaller aswel ha!

60A old 1361 main bullet looked untouched for years, checked the fuse just to be sure and it had blown.

Heres the situation pal,we are both subbies, a mate of mine said he had a spark mate who had no work but wanted to come work on this contract im on so i say fine, this guy as far as i know is a qualified spark yet he cant sign any paperwork as he cant find his certs to produce for this firm so...

We work on every single job together and i sign all test sheets and other paperwork off as he "cant find" his certs.I am now certain this guy is not an electrician as today i caught him crimping a lug to a main gas bond using his snips.. :( Needless to say i was gobsmacked and asked what he...

Seconded, Alot of houses have upstairs/downstairs split lighting including bathroom in the upstairs circuit, and unless you live in buckingham palace i very much doubt you will overload the fuse with a few light fittings.

If it were me and i had sockets ect on the plasterboard wall (which im guessing is raised from the brick with the steels) id wire everything to where its going to be leaving plenty of length on cables and then once the boarders have finished cut my boxes in (faster fix) and pull all cables...

This is why i think he isnt qualified and just a charlaton (sp?).Yes he can wire but you can teach a monkey to wire.Its just when it comes to even basic stuff like calc amperes from wattage he hasnt got the foggiest.Im only 21 hes double my age and i know far more than him yet every other spark...

And he reckons hes a fully qualified spark, now his work isnt bad but its not good either he likes to rush which inturn causes mistakes (ie other week i was testing a board after installing a new ringmain and got no cont on lives, split the ring and 2 sockets in found hed tightened the terminal...

Well then if it is he can pull a 10mm in cant he.

Apologies,do continue.

can you?

TT being where the earth is from a rod inserted into the ground. TN-S is when the earth is fed seperatly or taken from the sheathing of the incoming cable TNC-S is when the earth comes from the incoming neutral on the cutout

Aye.

You need a 10mm bond to the water stop stap and the gas pipe.

ok my bad just asking, just make sure you dont make xmas dinner this year ha.

Wouldnt diversity only apply if there were other things on the circuit or does the cooker only pull 11.2 kw when every hob grill and oven is on/

Why are there two sets of cables on the outgoing side of the spur? even if there are 2 fittings above wouldnt it be better to just link them out?