Recent content by boltonsparky

Once issued with an unsatisfactory report your landlord/lady is required to rectify within 28 days.  Fusebox has definitely seen better days but the cabling doesn't look that old. Whatever needs doing electrically isn't really a concern for you other than the inconvenience to you while the work...

It's kind of chicken and egg. In my experience they turn a blind eye to the notification. Just notify it after your assessment. You have 30 days to notify (although there is nobody to pull you up on this) so time it right and you'll be within that time frame anyway and you'll be safe from the...

I'd say it's definitely not your fault, they're the ones doing the work.  Is it the main DNO service cable they've gone through and was it buried in the wall? I'd imagine it went with a fair bang if it was.  Cables can be run any which way in reality but vertically and horizontally above below...

Fine to leave them in if they're redundant but usually removed both for space for new cables through joists etc and for a weigh in down the scrapyard. 

Common on new builds to see the faded G/Y cable coming out of the wall to the pipe between the gas meter box and the wall with an indoor rated BS951 clamp corroded onto the copper pipe with a poorly made off verdigris cable stuffed into said corroded clamp.

As mentioned don't go hammering anything into the wall above the switch. If you need to hang this mirror there use some kind of adhesive fixing. If it's just a standard switch blanking plates aren't a great deal slimmer, you might gain 5mm of clearance. To be honest the whole thing sounds like...

Have you tested the feed to the transformer. I have a small low voltage test lamp for testing things like this rather than using multimeters which for reasons I can't explain can sometimes not show up low voltages where a test lamp can.  However it's all chinese tat nowadays so it wouldn't...

Keep it simple, forget this ring and widow maker setup. Whatever you need in this box install and connect to the appropriate sized appliance inlet on the trike (16a or 32a) same as you would on a motorhome, catering truck, ambulance etc. Make them a standard cable (not a widow maker) h07rnf is...

We do need to be told and warned and whatever else, as dumb as it sounds. The human race has known about this for decades but still we consume at a rate far greater than the planet can sustain. The planet is way over populated. I read somewhere that we are consuming at a rate of 1.5 planets and...

Needs to be an agreed LIM and stated in the limitations section on the EICR. As Murdoch states you still need to do an R2. A lot of down lights are class II so you won't get any joy at the fittings themselves with a wander lead to the casing but switches must be checked, a week later along comes...

Rewire it in the 3 core flex as suggested, then if you can, find somebody who can stick it on a PAT machine or do an earth continuity test and insulation resistance tests on it to ensure it's fit for use. 

They're in guidance note 8 (18th edition version), so the regs don't tally up with the guidance notes either, no surprise really. 

I'm a bit out of touch with routes into the industry now but there are helpful groups, if you're on Facebook you can look up and join the sparkyninja groups. GSH on youtube cover training and have plenty of training videos so they might have some routes into the industry videos. There's a guy...

Condolences.  You've probably already thought of this but have you ever made payments to each other, going through your account history/your setup payees you may be able to find an account/sort code and Identify the bank from that, won't cover all his accounts if he had more than one but it...