Recent content by choccy

Good evening all, got a call from a customer about the DNO subcontractor coming out and changing over their cable head to an upgraded one. Everything going great till end of job and subby tells the customer that she need to get me back as its not earthed properly. Get there to find that the...

Evening all just home from work tonight and get a call back out to a job ( 70 miles round trip ) that I was at on monday, customer complaining that no power to sockets and heating spur. So back out I go and get there to find that livingroom plastered and spur is full of wet plaster so rcbo...

having a nice exciting night in Ian?

my understanding is they dont have a straight pass mark as you have asked. I do believed they get all papers marked then have a look at how all have done and then deside how many percent get passed out of the test papers done. I may be wrong but also if you google the Chief examiners report for...

Thanks again MEGGER MARK keep up the good work

BUT WHAT ? ---------- Post Auto-Merged at 19:18 ---------- Previous post was made at 19:04 ---------- slow tonight but picture shows shower on upstairs ring. cable insulation shot.

AT JOB TODAY TO CHANGE SHOWER FROM ELECTRIC TO THERMOSTATIC ONE, SOME TILES OF TO FIND OLD SHAVER POINT STILL LIVE WITH LITTLE INSULATING TAPE ON IT. NOT A GOOD START. SEE PICTURE BELOW THEN PROCEED TO ISOLATED SHOWER AND REMOVE AND FOUND THIS NICE ONE, CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THE...

Thanks for the reply I have spoken to the customer and going to contact the dno and take it from there.

The customer has had a new 9.5 kw shower added thats all.

Had a situation the same when i went recently to price up connecting a power and lighting supply to a new metal shed. No rcd in the property either. So proceeded to price for cable, rcd, garage 2 way fuse board, earth rod, boxes ect. Gave price off

Agree with the post and I will contact the dno on monday and ask for an upgrade.

Good evening all, not had a post in a while but looking for some help please. In a customers house and I am in need of a service cut out fuse, The info I have is a bs88 1952 and its a 60amp. I am looking to change this to an 80 amp of the same size but cant sourse one. The size is 15mm...

thanks everyone for the replies, sticker is on and will speak to them about the fittings being class II

Evening all not long done some testing for landlord that is letting out house. done basic tests like earth cont on gas, water, rcd check, polarity of outlets. Problem is not bonded properly, no earth continuity on lighting circuits, no rcd within property. Gave them a cert saying...

hi a quick update on the rcd tripping, went back today and found that the split neutral bars had continuity so there was a problem and this was tripping the rcd. found that a radial circuit on opposite sides of the split board had a shred neutral. this was latter discovered that one of the...