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Yes perfectly safe and above board to put the wiring in trunking

I love the way they call it "borrowed" neutral. Shold be stolen neutral since they never had any intention of returning it.

I'm hoping theres someone here that can give me some advice. I have a seaward combi compact tester which i put in for calibration. I have been told there is a fault on the tester as when it runs an earth fault loop impedance test it only ever records 0.67 ohms. I found this very strange as i...

2 way with cente off. I searched the web but havn't tried my supplier yet.

A friend of mine has a rather large roller shutter door on his barn. It's forever blowing fuses on the 12 volt side of the radio control panel. He's had the company back numerous times but it keeps happening. Now he wants me to change the unit so that it operates with a manual switch. I want to...

thanks for the link. I could do it properly with a hard wired system but it would mean running 3 cables down to the garage and i really don't want to get into that. (1 for a second bell box, 1 for a remote keypad and 1 for the pir/door contact) Plus the SA5 has already been ordered. I've always...

I need some advice. I have installed plenty of alarms in the past both wired and wirefree but they have all been of a pretty standard nature. I now need to protect my own home and garage. I would like to have a dialler system that will contact me should the alarm be activated since people...

There are definitely cowboys out there. I dropped my seaward combi compact into a local centre to be calibrated. I know the kit is pretty accurate coz i tested the circuits in my garage when i got it and use those circuits to check it. I also test it against another tester. A week after i...

At the moment the pipe is dry but the pressure was at 0 again. I've just opened the loop bled all the rads and got it back up to 1 bar again. Heating is on full and waiting to see if it starts dripping outside. As an afterthought my GF has been complaining that when doing the dishes (as they...

On looking under the boiler there is a pipe that leads outside (15mm copper) but i would have to romovee the cover again to see where it goes. I also have the loop off the cold feed into the flow which has a black tap on it. The return pipe has a red tap on it. I take it this valve is up inside...

Should have said i'm not a plumber. I'm an electrician but have a basic knowledge of heating systems from wiring them up for plumbers of the past few years. Could you explain what you mean by "pressure release valve passing" my guess is you mean the valve is stuck open??? I have checken all...

I have a Barlo Duo combi boiler. The problem is air is getting into the system somewhere and i can\\\'t find it. I have bled all radiators and got the pressure upto 1.5 bar. Within 1-2 days the pressure has dropped to nearly 0 and the rads are full of air again. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

My combi has a low fault current test for Zs which doesnt trip the RCD. However it also doesn't give correct readings. I know this because put a main switch in place of the rcd and tested again. The results were almost half. A friend of mines tester also does exactly the same thing.

Some mate :? I just installed downlights for a friend of a friend in every room of his house. Including hallway. 40 downlights, got a mate to help me and charged him 250 quid labour plus i supplied the cable, connectors, sleeving etc. We were there from 8.30am till 6pm.

I've got a seaward combi it vdoes all the tests. Only downside is it trips the rcd on earth fault loop impedance

My father in law has just had MFI kitchen fitters round. They are fitting his kitchen in 2 weeks and offered to do the electrics as well. He was a little concerned having heard about Part P and asked my advice. I phoned the kitchen fitter to find not only is he not registered he hass no...

Sounds to me like reverse polarity. The neutral is actually the live. If you have a neon screwdriver try it on the neutral. Doesn't explain why the fitting is live though. Unless you have a fault on the fitting.

Balaclava and a bat and deny any knowledge.

601-08-01 insulating pull cords of cord operated switches complying with bs3676 are permitted in zones 1 and 2.

I usually charge for a full day. Although it usually only takes a few hours to change the board i've been caught out in the past. Change the board, switch on and click, rcd trips out. Then spend the rest of the day trying to find bloody faults. Then the customer says well you gave me a price...