Recent content by hamlettphil

me thinks that 2, just thought id put it out there. well im staying well away!!!

got a phone call last night, from a mate of mine. his mums house does not appear to have a Main earth, on the suppliers side, dont know the type of system it is or anyhting else. she has contacted the supplier and they said thet will run the earth through there BT circuit ( wot the f*^k) i have...

recently come to find my certificates, needed to check when i did my 16th. cant find any of them, 2391, AM2, 16th and NVQ level 3 all gone missing. does anybody know wether i can get replacments for these?? and is it an easy task? any suggestions would be great. cheers

cheers that may come in helpful pretty soon, planning to start my own part time business, as well as continue with my job, hopefully get it going full time in the next few years,if i can build up a good customer base

we were advised to put unknown by our niceic guy, I would assume it would be a 1361, other idea would be to phone the electricity board and see if they have any information on the adderess (good luck like)

is the power staying on, with nothing plugged in?? if you put load on the circuit and it trips, could be unbalanced load? could be u have ur neutral cables mixed up. only a suggestion. i had this experience before and it took me around 3 hours to see ehat i had done!!!

my apprentice asaked me today, what eddy currents are all about, and to be honest i couldnt remember, could any 1 fill me in cheers

any cash u get has got 2 be a bonus right, what would u do otherwise, chuck it in the bin. i know its not mega amounts, pays 4 a nice night out though or something. stripping it down just takes too long, i do strip 10mm TE and above though.

dont bin it, save it. i get

spray paint an X the floor unger the D/L positions if possible, it aint 100% accurate, but it gives u an idea were the positions are. Or just knock f!*k out of the ceiling ha ha ha i have done that before

at work we rewire in these cases, i know it could be a lot different in contactor world, ie the people not wanting to pay for a rewire.

personally dont see a problem with that, put them on a 30ma RCD to give the extra protection.

yes 3 metres, originally thought it was 2.5m niceic man told us it was 3.

made the stupid mistake today of not checking the main water bond and gas bonds in a house. realised after the floors and carpets were back down!!!!!X:_| though we had our local NICEIC guy in talking to us about the 17th edition. he said there was no problem with this size cable as long as it...

pretty sure, your company gets some sort of tax releif on your wages etc. i would get in touch with the local college or something.