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Hello all, Got a job to wire in the power for an aerial booster (I don't know any details on it at all) I know people who have them wired off there lighting circuits, is it ok to connect this to the lighting citcuit. It would make my life a lot easier as getting ring main up there is going to...

As the title really, went to B&Q and they were doing energy saving lamps bayonet fitting 11w for 10p, maybe worth people stocking up.

Hello all, Did some work on a kiosk type shop on a station recently, first a PIR followed by all but 1 of the necessary repairs. Cert all done for PIR no problems, submitted cert for repairs and seperate cert for fitting an emergency light and got an email from train company (I've been working...

Hello Mr JL I am thinking of having an extension built on the back of my house. The kitchen is currently at the back and has the boiler on the wall venting striaght outside throught the wall. But this wall will become an internal wall so is it possible to put the flue through the wall as it...

Hello all, A friend of mine who lives out in the country has a car repair garage with his father. It was originally his fathers business and the garage is next to the house so when it was built an SWA was run from house to garage from house c/u. Since then my mate has built another garage...

Hello all, I've been asked by a letting agent to do a layout drawing of a small shop and proposed additions. I've done basic ones of these before where I've just put a coloured box in for various different things when I've been doing domestic stuff but I'd like something a bit more...

Hello all Had a bad day on a pir today on a shop at a docklands train station shop first the agent thought it would only take half an hour so wasn't best pleased when I told him otherwise then the people lookin at rentin the shop stood behind me the entire time found a few small problems but...

Hello guys Just doin a pir and have found property has a metal cu if I remember rightly it should be rcd protected on the incomer before cu if its metal can anyone confirm and would this be a code 1 or code 2 not come across this situation before and I know customer will want all information...

Hello all, Just a quick question. I've got a landlord who has given me a reasonable bit of work lately and has more coming in the way of PIR's and any follow on work along with doing any work that may need doing in the mean time. He is also talking about a couple of refurbishments on some...

Hello all, I have just uploaded my excel versions of my certificates to the downloads area. I've already emailed them to all who asked but they should soon be availabloe for anyone to download - just awaiting approval from Mr Admin. If anyone has any comments on them it would be good to know...

Hello all, Been doing some work round a regular customers who actually only lives at the end of my road, anyway he asked me to have a quick look at some speaker cables while I was there - he has a digital radio with links to speakers in various rooms which he can turn on and off, however where...

Hello all, I want to fit a couple of small panel heaters off fused spurs for a caravan, but I want to be able to set them on timers so they come on and off by themselves, anyone got any ideas can't find anything suitable. I know I could fit a timer into cu but trying to avoid a new circuit as...

Hello all, Anyone know roughly the rated wattage of the average battery drill charger. The reason I ask is I'm going to get an inverter mainly so I can print off certs invoices etc whilst at site from laptop but thought it would be useful to be able to charge up my drills, screwdrivers etc...

Hello all, Passed my Elecsa surveilance visit today with flying colours, no non conformancies or anything so well pleased with that. The assesor was excellent, really friendly and definatly knew his stuff. We had quite a good chat about a few things. So I'm still an electrician ha ha!

Hello all I bought a Lucas 18v battery drill a while ago as it was being given away for next to nothing as they went under and it had an adapter to turn the chuck 90 degrees which has been really useful drilling joists or anything really in tight corners, unfortunatly yesterday I dropped it and...

Hello all, I have changed a C/U and have a problem with the lighting circuits. Basilcally the landing area light has a live fed from the downstairs lighting circuit but takes its neutral from the upstairs lighting circuit. This is a problem for me to comply with 314.1 as I need to put them...

Hello all, I'm pricing a job to add a socket for a a washing machine in kitchen. Everything will be surface mounted from an original socket to a fused spur then below the worktop to a single socket also surface mounted. Does this need to be RCD'd?? It fed from a MK Sentry c/u and much of the...

Apparantly its true.. Let me explain, Went to a house over weekend as upstairs lights all out, found rewireable fuse blown as customer had put energy saving light bulb onto old dimmer, got that all sorted and customer asked about a couple of other jobs, so I said oh if you need those bits...

Hello all, Just hot my reminder through to renew my membership with ELECSA but thought I would have a quick look round and have a think about it before just rejoining with them again and was looking for the BSI scheme but it doesn't appear on the website anymore. Have they stopped doing it?

Hello all, Was just thinknig about these new smart meters that send the meter readings and other info to the supplier all the time. If one of these lost power for any reason, for example if the main fuse fell out do you think it would send that info to the supplier? Not seen one yet but was...