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Here's a pic for you all - see if you can spot the rather worrying problem (no its not that the cover is hanging off! :wink: ) This was a job I went to last week where the customer told me the shower wasn't working. Checking in the meter cupboard and finding the trip switch down I thought it...

Continuing my ongoing PIR of a farm complex with various functions - today's fun was a small caravan site (5 pitches). Some issues came up and I thought someone on here might find it interesting. All looked reasonably ok, until I started testing and investigating. To be fair, there was...

Just started PIR on an installation at a local farm/stables/tack room/feed barn today. Looks like it could be a fairly long/fiddly job... Today was a metal workshop with a fairly simple set up. However, I'm not 100% sure on the position with equipotential bonding to the structure. The...

Had a call from a client this morning - 'there was a big bang and we don't have any power' Got there to discover it was an upstream problem, but only with their property so left them awaiting a visit from EDF 'within 3 hours' 8 hours later they turned up :roll: to discover that the join...

Anyone have a good solution for clipping cables to breeze block and other similar soft block. It makes it easy to channel when your sds chisel goes through it like butter, but its a pig when you are trying to fix cables in place. Cable clips generally just bounce out, though I have had...

My entry in a new category Did a visual inspection today on a house sold subject to contract. I've done a few of these for an estate agent and there are always minor things, but rarely anything too serious. When I walked into this one it had clearly been recently refurbished, so I...

I have an interesting 'situation' with one of my clients, and wondering if anyone one here has some experience of underfloor heating in screed. The job is a new build outbuilding/office in a garden, only about 22sqm. The client sourced and purchased underfloor heating cable to install in...

Hmm, So the 17th comes into force on July 1st, I have read that installs designed after 1st June should comply with the 17th, and yet apparently the On Site Guide is not due to be published until 30th May. Is it just me, or does that suggest they are still arguing over how best to comply...

Any old timers on here able to date this heater for me? 5 of them fitted in a local Parish Council hall and only one is left working, though the fans work on all. They are branded GEC and look out of the ark to me, but them I'm not as long in the tooth as some members :) I am planning to...

Just ran across a link for this and thought it might amuse... video here Anyone care to count how many regs you can break all at once? :lol: although this is a US company, they do sell a UK version :shock:

Knowing how much you all like pics, I thought these might interest you. Doing a PIR for a flat prior to council renting. This is what I found: The first thought was, accessible live parts, no CU cover so fail. Then I climbed the ladder (Part M anyone) and found the rest...

At the risk of becoming another David 'RCD' Strachan(topic here), There appears to be another issue the 17th is going to raise. From what I have read, TT Low Voltage installations will now require 0.2 disconnection times for ALL final circuits, other than those exceeding 32A or distribution...

I realise this may make me look a bit of a pillock, but there is a lesson that might help someone else so what the hell :? I was called to a house with an elderly couple (90 and 91) who said they had no lights in the hall, porch and one upstairs room. The story was that they had run the...

Hi, Can anyone suggest or recommend an insulated CU that has a time delayed 100ma RCD incomer (Or a main switch that can be replaced with such) and then the facility for two separate rcd banks to split the protection across outgoing circuits. I'm quoting to put in a new board in a TT...