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Hi Guys Bit of advice needed!!!!!!!!!!! Was asked to do a job fitting LED downlights as the guy was fitting a false ceiling in the house he was doing up to rent out. I normally use the Fire Rated short can type from LED Hut. I ordered the units along with 4.5w LED GU10 lamps. On arrival he's...

Hi Guys I have seen a few convertors for lamp holders. Customer want to fit LED lamps in his care home. Most of the fittings have 26w 4 pin lamps Does anyone know if you can get these to convert from 4 pin CFL lamps to standard lamp holders so as to fit LED lamps Cheers

Hi Guys Did a ECIR today. Cooker circuit 40a mcb. 6mm T+E coming out of DB. Removed cable,jointed L-E ready to do R1+R2 Went into kitchen to find No cooker isolation point.Cooker was only placed in cupboard unit so pulled it out a little,which I saw 3 cables. When I pulled the cooker out...

Hi, Customer complaining that bulbs are blowing. Fitting is a 3 x spot with 60w R63 spots. Tells me he was having problems previously so got the fitting changed and apparently has only had 3-6 mths use. Fitting is only a cheap plastic type. As this fitting has recently blown 2 bulbs he asked me...

Hi all. After a bit of advice on this please. I work on streetlighting as my main job. We have a feeder pillar which basically feeds 2 streetlights Ze at the Feeder Pillar is a PME system and was 0.30 ohmns. R1+R2 was measured as 0.86 so my total Zs will be 0.30+0.86. 1.16 ohmns. As this job...

Hi, Just wondered if anyone knows what the going rate for an ECIR is in the North. Got beat on price of a 3 bedroom house.I put price in of £150 which i think is ok.Some will prob say its cheap. Emailed the guy today to see if quote was any good to him and was told it was a little high.I...

Hi I'm after a little advice on this .Is there a particular requirement that an emergency light has to be a maintained rather than non. Reason being I did an ECIR last weekend and the 2 emergency lighting units werent working.Turns out the 8w lamps had gone,which I changed. The guy said to me...

Hi I'm after a bit of advice please. Did a ECIR yesterday.Board was MEM Memshield 2 3 phase.There was a circuit feeding sockets fed from a 16a mcb. This circuit has no rcd protection so I thought the easy option is just fit a RCBO. Does anyone know if these are available or will any other type...

Hi Guys, Need a bit of advice please. I've been asked could I do an electrical certificate for a property my mate wants to rent out.Am I right in thinking this would this be carried out using the EICR form? He reckons on paying

Hi guys.I've been an electrician since 2001 but been in streetlighting.Just applied to niceic for part p. Been asked to change a old 4 way wylex 3036 board to 17th edition board. I was thinking of a 10 W 2x5 unit twin Rcd. Any ideas on the cost I should be quoting for this job.Obviously i'm not...

Hi I currently own a seaward europa plus pat tester but have been looking at buying a primetest 300/350. Are they any good? better than the one i have? Can anyone advise please Cheers russ

Hi I currently own a seaward europa plus pat tester but have been looking at buying a primetest 300/350. Are they any good? better than the one i have? Can anyone advise please Cheers russ