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Had a call from a customer who had just had his shower room renovated. A "spark" who was a friend of chaps son had done the electrical work. A new shower had replaced an existing one but moved and a new isolator fitted with a switch outside the door instead of a ceiling pullcord. Original shower...

I've been rewiring a ground floor flat which is a toal refurb with gas central heating going in. Standard set up 10mm bonding to incoming gas and water. Had phone call from customer in a panic. According to the "Heating Engineer" I had used 6mm to bond the gas. I told the customer I had used...

I went to quote for a rewire today and the client asked if I could use some reels of cable they had. I had a look and it was Tower branded 2.5mm T&E new reels but in old colours. Apart from suggesting they flog it on ebay can it be used if I make sure I sleeve it in brown and blue?

Do we have any discounts available at Fastlec?

It seems fair game around my little corner of Wales for some sparks to rip off customers which gives the trade a bad name. I was asked by an elderley couple recently moved to the area to replace a storage heater for a towel rail in the bathroom. I asked if there was any paper work on the...

Does anyone know where I can get the full range of orbix screws from?. I can find the self drill metal type but I'm looking for the wood screws as well. I contacted Orbix and they told me CEF and Edmundsons stock them but my nearest branches don't. If there is somewhere online as the last place...

I had a call this morning from a facilities management company asking if I would go and have a look at a job at my local branch of a roadside restaurant chain that employ short fat cooks. The reported fault was a cable on a griddle sparking. When i got there I found a damaged SY cable that...

Went to have a brief look at a job at Cafe earlier. Owner said sockets in Kitchen keep tripping out when they get busy. Every socket in the kitchen was in use. 2 cooker circuits feeding commercial fryers had double adapters plugged into the cooker control unit sockets feeding microwaves. No gas...

Found this board on PIR. There's a birds nest sat on top of it. This board is swimming pool supply. You can see how well they look after the pool!

Anyone know if more modern square D RCBO's can be used in place of these. It's got the two prongs at the top that clip into the busbar.

Last week on my way home called in to a see a woman who wanted a few little jobs doing. I was just there to have a quick look, 2 outside lights not working, one of two living room lights not working which she wanted replacing with some Argos jobbies her daughter had bought. I had my voltage...

Had a callout this morning to a rental bungalow with report of lights tripping. I knocked on the door which was opened by a transvestite and I was nearly knocked out by the foulest of smells. I was hit by what I can only describe as a strong smell of ammonia. I diagnosed the lighting problem...

Called in on my way home to a job where sockets were not working on down ring final. Homeowner had just moved in on Friday. Simple job just a faulty MCB tested and replaced and sockets back working. The strange thing is the previous occupant had run extension leads throughout downstairs all run...

Can somone recommend a cylinder that will be heated by electric immersion only not on economy 7 and must be mains fed as there is no header tank.

I have a client who is renovating a cottage who wants some form of electric heating but not night storage. I've done some research and was looking at those gel filled radiators but was put off by some bad reviews on reliability and customer service. I have been looking at the Dimplex Duoheat as...

I was parked at Chester Railway station last week whilst away for a few days and came back on Friday to find passenger door lock had been done. The van was completely empty so luckily the blighters got nothing. I reported it to Arriva who run the station and they told me to report it to British...

I've just installed a big chandelier fitting with twenty 12 volt halogen capsule lamps. It has a toroidal transfomer built into the fitting. It's in a chapel conversion and fed on a dedicated radial in 1.5mm. It's currently on a 6 amp Hager type B which trips frequently. The instructions that...

My Cat has runny eyes and has started sneezing quite a lot. Is there anything I can give him or anything I can get from the vets to alleviate the symptons. If it is Cat flu how worried should I be?

I'm doing a PIR on a big house last rewired in 1963, I was told by the owner. Most of it looks to be wired in imperial PVC but the cooker and immersion circuits are VIR. Most of the sockets and switches are the bakelite type mounted on wood. I had a look at one light switch that was a more...

Got a callout today from a customer I put new board in back in March. Report of no power to upstairs sockets. I took the cover off and found 32a B type Wylex breaker had melted. Total load would have been around 18 amps at most and circuit was RCD protected on one side of dual RCD split load...