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This is a good point. On the morning we started, the customer turned up and started saying he wanted chrome sockets & switches in all the rooms instead of the ones we had originally quoted for and he also wanted downlighters in two of the rooms. We told him that all the extra work and materials...

Yes, we were naive but we were a recommendation to the guy from a mutual friend (who turns out he only knew him very tenously) so we thought everything would be straight forward. We contacted the guy when we realised work had stopped and when he said he couldn't pay us as he had no money, we...

I would really appreciate some advice here please. 12 months ago we did a first fix of a complete rewire on a large terraced house complete with cellar and attic conversion. The customer was completely renovating the property ready to move his family into. There was a lot of work in not very...

Went to price up some bathroom work where the room had been gutted. Going up the centre of the wall (previously tiled) was some capping with a rawlplug right through the middle, behind the capping was 1 x 2.5 and 2 x 1.5 so it must have been a tight fit getting them all in there in the first...

He said he had but it transpires he was using a double to single converter instead!! I am never sure whether to use pin 3 or not, could pin 3 being affecting things then? According to the customer the broadband provider has said that the extension I have taken out of the back of the...

I think this is where I went wrong, the original job I did for my neighbour was very similar and I gave him a ridiculously low price because a) he was my neighbour, b) I needed the work and c) He may recommend me (which he did). Unfortunately it has now backfired as I suppose this new guy...

A customer had an office built in his garden and converted his old indoor office into a bedroom. I did the electrics for the new office and whilst there he asked if I did phones as he wanted a phone line for his fax and, telephone. I am not an expert but have done extensions at home and knew...

Being relatively new to the trade I kept my prices low to try and build up a customer base, this seemed to work as I most work I get seems to be through recommendations. However, the last 2 quotes I gave have not been followed up despite me still thinking it was a reasonable price. The last one...

I did a similar job on a Volex and got a compatable Europa RCBO from my local wholesaler for £17.

Thought I would post an update on this in case you thought I was being ignorant in not replying. I went away for a couple of weeks (they were regular customers and were not bothered about lack of dishwasher). When I returned I decided to go back to basics and do all tests as if new install. (I...

Just an update on this. I plugged the dishawasher into the washing machine socket (on same grid switch). After 10 minutes the breaker tripped - Not the RCD - after resetting the dishwasher went on to finish the cycle. The washing machine has worked fine on numerous occasions. Bongos - The...

I installed a new kitchen ring about 3 weeks ago ready for a new kitchen to be installed, the customer wanted a grid switch arrangement to isolate the dishwasher, washing machine and fridge. They called me last week to say that the main switch RCD suddenly started tripping on a regular basis...

Rather than start another thread I may as well ask this here if thats ok.