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A practical query... I'm putting in a Spur for an outside socket running from a double socket in the nearest room. No FCU required. Customer wants the cable run in trunking from the existing socket (which is flush, metal back box,) rather than buried cable, so I was going to use a mini...

Need to run a 10mm Main Bonding cable along the outside wall of a house then into kitchen wall to incoming gas..planning to use conduit on wall (not overly necessary in this situation but just looking to practise my conduit work! ;) ) but, it's running along virtually the same outside route as...

Hi, just a practical question re the filling on of a 'standard' Dom EICR form.. Take a domestic installation where alongside the main CU at the orgin sit 2 other DBs (later additions just feeding a couple of circuits each, all internal to the house) All 3 are sitting next to each other with...

Doing a pre-work survey etc, have come across a new one for me..any thoughts appreciated.. 1950s house, Ring Main in original 7/.029 & 3/.036. At some point in the past this ring was grossly overloaded as more extensions and spurs including a spur to two huge garden offices were added to...

Hi all..A question re testing a standard radial BUILT IN oven circuit for an EICR in terms of what's expected/best practice... Assuming I can access the oven connector unit in a cupboard next to the oven as the final connection point.. its my understanding that to do both dead R1+R2 and a...

Hi, grateful for any thoughts..my brain is slowing.. scenario = House with TT..doing EICR before possible major updates. (To give you an idea of the condition the house does not even have RCD fault protection, and what was acting as a Voltage ELCB has been at some point disconnected from any...

Wonder if anyone can help?... Doing a pfc test on a domestic supply and getting readings of 1.88kA L-N, and 0.86kA L-E.  This surely suggests it is a TN-S system?...and yet the last PIR on the property states it is a TN-C-S supply. The reason for confusion is that the main incoming cable is a...