Recent content by Sharpend

Well done in your perseverance. Continue like that and it will pay dividends.

Surely marketing can be down from a laptop anywhere/anytime?

Would love to give it a go, but where is the nearest flying school for ROV’s! Just how do you get into something like this?

That’s not work that’s watching telly!!

Hasn’t this sub done 40 trips to the bottom, without an issue, perhaps engineers under estimated the carbon fibre?

Maybe they are confused as there is more than one titanic? ( well it did break into two parts!)

Perhaps you need some more help? No body is criticising what you do?

How about if all houses businesses were to be self generating and feeding into the grid, how could the National Grid then justify their charges in supplying electricity? And how could they then charge those that are actually generating to the grid? Wouldn’t that be like charging you for...

Ok Boris; let’s say that Bs7671 are the regs and the On-site Guide is considered as an influence towards best practice, so if you wish to choose an alternative method feel free, it’s your design not mine. I just think that it is generally easier to follow best practice as saves a lot of...

Sadly it’s never been the same since we lost our dedicated tech guru. 😢

It is at the discretion of the individual as to whether they wish to put their head above the ceiling, so no one size fits all, however regs allow for it not to be done. As for you concern of light fittings, if a sample were checked from below it is usually easy to determine if a JB has been...

Proper testing and understanding of the results would indicate integrity of the cable, so not always a necessity to see the cable.

In answer to the last question, yes this is normal. I think you are expecting more bang for bucks? Without being party to the agreement at the time how would you or I know what was agreed and whether the price included a few small remedial that don’t fall upon the EICR?

I personally wouldn’t entertain putting it on a ring circuit but I dare say some do.

It is a regulation recommendation that any electrical device greater than 2kw is connected via its own circuit. Whilst the item may run at lower than this there are times that it would run at or near too it’s max.