Recent content by kmaccui

Thanks for the help guys. I was overthinking the issue and about to get involved in something I clearly didn't need to.  Much appreciated

Hi guys im hoping you can help.  I was doing an Eicr in a golf club today and in the kitchen the deep fat fryer's 13 amp switch spur was directly behind it so i suggested to moving it to the side wall just in case of a fire so it could be turned off easier. My question is does it actually need...

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it turned out the closers are ok, we put 24v straight onto them and they held. a new transformer installed and everything is ok thanks for the advise guys :Applaud

31v is at the switch at the door closer messured with a multi meter pretty sure the door closers had a 24v sticker on them i will check it out with a 24v supply connected to a closer again next week. Thanks guys

Hi guys i could do with a little help from anyone that does regular work with fire alarms, i was asked to check out a fire alarm which has door closers in the system, the closers are not holding the doors open anymore despite there being 31v (seems a bit high to me). when the system is put into...

No problem BARX even i make mistakes :slap

Thats true Andy we normally disconnect each 10mm earth and connect it to the megger until we get what should be the right 1 but as you say there could be parallel paths

BARX its not turning our nose up at the work its the fact we have been told by the housing association that they are happy with a continuity test but our boss is wanting us to get money out of them for work that does not need doing and if we get caught then thats fraud to start with and also the...

Hi guys i could use some advise please. We are a bit quiet at the moment and we have been getting a few jobs to check that gas meters are connected to an earth cable,no problem there, but our boss is wanting us to run in a new cable so that 1's which are not visible will not need us to go back...

I got £10 per night for being on-call £240 for the 8 jobs i got called out to so in total i got £330 for the 9 nights

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Hi guys can anyone tell me what you should be getting paid for being on-call please. Do you get a rate per day for being on-call aswell as a fee for every call out you get? I believe you get

sorry i just saw this and i am probably to late to help you. good luck anyway and IF you fail just try again ASAP there is no shame in having another go and you will know what you are up against this time. fingers crossed for you.

we dont have a test procedure to test against the other testers. there is another tester, i never thought about comparing results so will do that next week i am NOT signing any sheets i am doing the tests and putting the results on the sheet but no way am i gonna say i am ok with the results i...