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Hi All, Has anyone successfully argued with an NHBC inspector on a new build about the Part M. C.U. heights, at between 1350mm & 1450mm? We have plots with the C.U.'s in under stair cupboards, and mounting the C.U. at approx 1400mm raises the board above the (cut down) door height, making...

Hi guys. On new build site work, has anyone found a really good drill bit to drill out eco joists with please? We seem to have had a batch come in over the last few months that are cardboard/hardboard material and the drill bits just bounce off once the pilot part has gone through. It won't...

Hi Guys, Anyone else think that site work has gone quiet lately? In the Hants/Berks/Surrey area. I'm on a site at the mo that has several years left but the dry liners just aren't keeping up so consequently I'm not getting a full week in, for several weeks now!! So I started making a few...

Hi Guys, I've recently been told that on new builds (building sites) the 3rd amendment 'bans' us from running cables within soil stacks. Anyone else heard of this? On some types of house, with a concrete floor, this is the only route up from the ground floor, where the CU is located. We keep...

Hi. I don't know when enough is enough, I suppose I feel guilty that there doesn't appear to be anything other than 'the final solution'  :_| Our cat, well, this one, we've got two, is about 18 & a half years old, and has gradually, over the last few months, become more and more...

Hi, a little job I looked at over the weekend, as the title says. Got 2 MEM boards, peak & off peak, recessed into timber studwork internal wall, although wall is an external wall with brickwork outside, house built 1986 ish, 15 th edition install. Wiring ok. Question is, is whether it's...

I haven't worked on a building site for well over 10 years now, but with work drying up left right and centre, an up coming opportunity to work locally on a site that is going to go 'ballistic' due to housing association timetables, - completion of site by June 30 - sounds too good to miss. ...

Hi Guys, just a 'just wondering' type of question. When you fill out an EIC, on the PFC bit, what do you put down? I always use ohms law using the Ze and put down 0.6kA or whatever. Trainee I am seeing again tomorrow appears to be saying that he's been taught at college to *always* put '6'...

Hi guys. I had my annual assessment renewal for Elecsa today (passed of course :D ), and something came up as an observation that I didn't previously know, so thought I would pass it on. When you are filling out your test sheets, there is a column for Max Zs for that circuit. For example...

Hi, re: the thread title, I have fault finded the problem to this gas valve, assuming I can locate one of these, can I have some considered opinions please, whether I (member of part p scheme and therefore deemed electrically competent) could replace this. Not really interested in the in's and...

New financial year, new part p schedule of fees. Whilst 70 or 80 quid notification fee for a rewire probably isn't too bad in the grand scheme, when Reading Council introduce a

I think we should have a moan board Pray My PC went up the swanee, motherboard failure the shop said, but you can have this new HP pavilion all signing and dancing for just

Hi guys, Has anyone got a link or a link to a previous thread where 'someone' here of fair face has posted/pasted a base format for a business card with the 'Elecsa' logo on it? (Yes i'm a member and free to use the logo) I've been on a few www business card sites and they just seem to be a...

Hi guys, With respect to green hornet's answer, I'd like a couple more opinions on this scenario please. I'm copying and pasting from the eleectricians talk 'elecsa' thread, hopefully I can put it together like a jigsaw puzzle Pray :D Cheers in advance. Had my assessment today... had a non...

Hi guys, some of you may have read my other thread about my elecsa assessment, I passed, sort of, had a non conformance due to main bonds on house being covered up/moved by kitchen fitters. But I thought I'd comment on other aspects of the assessment, in case it helps others. Much is made...

Further to my other thread, which I don't want to sidetrack from, as the title says here, on the previous thread the kewtech manual says that to do a Zs test you must replace the rcd with an mcb temporarily to stop unwanted tripping... so what do you do when you've got a board full of rcbo's...

Hi Guys, I've got a Kewtech KT61 multi tester; http://www.kewtechcorp.com/products/multifunction/KT61.htm (and I can't work out how to do the link in my own words... lol) and every Zs test i do on sockets, i get the reading of '1'. This can't be right? Ze doesn't appear to be a problem, so...

Guys, For my soon up coming Elecsa assessment I need "HS ® 25 Memorandum of Guidance on the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989" to be available. Anyone got a link where I can download said choice? Cheers in anticipation... Applaud Smiley

Ooohhh... you might regret this sub forum M'sier Veet, lol. Any comments on the continued usefulness of giving Metacam to my nearly 12 yr old Lab, both front leg 'elbows' have calcium knobbly bits. I've recently introduced Gylco flex 3 into his diet and this seems to have made more of a...

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