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I recently had to remove some cables to allow a roof of a building to be removed and recontructed. Some of the cables I removed were tracer cables running inside the lagging on water pipes. I have now been asked to re-instate them. I have never had anything to do with these things in the past...

I was in a B&Q store today in Eastkilbride ( just outside Glasgow) they had a pallet with buckets of electrical stuff on offer. 3 single pole switches for

I am carrying out some work in a house. It involves reconnecting 2 downlighters fitted in a recently renovated shower room. The connections can be accessed from the attic. The downlighters have metal casings but no earth connection. It appears as if the connections (live and neutral) are totally...

It came by recorded delivery yesterday and as I was out I had to collect it at the PO today. A big brown envelope. I took it home, made myself a coffee and sat down outside feeling a bit nervous. Inside was a pass result and the C&G certificate itself. I was suprised and delighted. A very...

This is a question further to my other thread "Help to check quote". The house I may be going to rewire is ex-council. The main board is at the bottom of the stair in the hall. It is a metal cabinet about 250mm wide x 600mm high and 150mm deep built into the wall with a metal door and...

I was asked today to quote for for a complete house rewire. Ex council house Mid-terrace. LIVING ROOM/DINING ROOM (downstairs) 5 x Double sockets. 2 x Lights controlled by 1 x 2 gang switch. 1 x Spur for existing Central Heating Control. KITCHEN 4 x Double Sockets above unit level. 3 x...

Reading the the thread about How RCDs Work and the comment by Trailer Boy about the effects of shock currents reminded me of an electric shock I got a number of years ago. I was working for a electical contactor in Glasgow many years ago and he used to do a lot of the work for some of the main...

A couple of years I was looking out the window of my upper flat window. It was about 6 o'clock on a Friday evening. Outside it was raining quite hard. There is a lamppost outside my house and someone had loosened the coverplate at the bottom of the lamppost about 2 feet from the ground. The...

I was reading in the forum an ex-policeman telling a little anecdote story and it reminded me of an encounter with a police man that embelished itself in my memory,not a British policeman I would hastily add. I was travelling by car from Glasgow to Bilbao in Spain on a little business trip. The...

I was working for an electrical contractor about a year ago and I did a job in a lady's house which consisted of a few kitchen light an a CU change. The Cu change was quite straight forward except that all the earth connections were about 3 inches long and too short to reach the earth bar which...

A little while ago I was searching for a good quality chordless drill. While browsing in a B&Q store in one of the local town I saw on offer an ex-display Makita drill with hammer action for

I have recently joined this forum and this is my first post just to introduce myelf. I am a time served electrician but I have been doing other things for awhile. I have come back to being an electrician again and I am busy bringing my certificates back in order. I have enjoyed reading some of...