Recent content by tomvassie

I am fairly sure we are on a TNS supply. I'll get this all checked out and get things squared up with building control before I go any further. Thanks for the advice guys.

Steptoe, Great, thanks for that advice. I will get on to that tomorrow, I have got the building inspector in tomorrow or Friday anyway so will talk it through with him. Nothing electrical has been started yet anyway. But I'm just trying to make plans for when I do, and start getting some...

Hi Apache, This is kind of what I had in mind, paying for the completed job to be inspected by building control (or who they appoint to do it). Also yes I'm sure that my layout of the new CU could do with some swapping about. And also I forgot to add to the list about fire detection which I...

Hi Steptoe, Thanks for your reply. The extension has its planning permissions and building regs, but as far as the electrical side goes, I have been lead to believe that the work would need to be approved by a registered electrician to get the sign off from building control? I could be wrong...

Hi Murdoch, Could you expand a little? Complying to regs for the electrical side or the building side?

Hello Everyone, I'm after a little advice if possible please. We are in the middle of building an extension on the annexe of our house, the annexe currently has one ring main and one lighting circuit coming from the main house CU. The main CU has one RCD(100ma) protecting all ring mains for...