Recent content by phil whitehouse

Only problem testing IR by doing LN to earth at board with all the circuits together is that often you will miss any "borowed" neutrals, more common than you think,often stair and landing lights are fed with the phase from the downstairs circuitand the neutral from the upstairs, or even on some...

Big problem I often find on some of the inspections I carry out is that where they run everything to the switch in a stud wall they make more space in the fastafix box by stripping the cable sheath outside the box and running the single insulated cables into the box so they can squash connector...

Both methods work but has anyone else noticed that all the younger sparks wire to the switches first with neutrals in chock blocks while older sparks (me included) prefer to wire lighting as 3plate like D Brennan and Jud suggest, has there been a change in the teaching methods?

British Gas electrical inspections are a a visual only, and judging by one I looked at after this inspection they obviously employ Stevie Wonder to do this job, they stated that there was no bonds to gas and water (10mm's located about 2m from DB) and that there was no RCD protection (which was...