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Anybody else think that meter readers should be obliged to point out to our suppliers, their employers, if an installation is potentially unsafe. Changed a fusebox last week, all the usual stuff plus 2 showers one wired in 10mm, the other in 6mm (will be 10mm by the end of next week.) Anyways...

It's the old potential difference... they need to be out of ballance (on different phases) to make a circuit.

I know it's a factory but I'd have a tester across the supply on the cable and flick off each of the circuits on the board individually (where possible) to see if you can isolate where the voltage is coming from.

How is the cable fixed? Is it banked with other cables? I know you said you inspected the length of it but you are getting 240V, stinks of screw through 2 cables to me.

Must be something about the trade... any 'Pikey' tried to break into mine he'd still be in there tryin' to find his way out the next mornin!

If you're doing this on weekends and evenings you'll either be a distinguished member or a dearly departed one by the time you get it finished! I'm sensing hair... ripped from heid... all over the floor! I have been there and I feel old now!

Likin' your style Lostit... only when I'm really busy or when it can't be done any other time.

I'm with GH here, sounds a bit on the cheap side to me. No kitchen is a bonus timewise but I would be planning 2 - 3 weeks on a 4 bed detached. Don't be afraid to quote what it's gonna cost the guy to do the job. There are people out there (me included) who would quote plenty more than that...

Mate's a graphic designer, brother in-law's a sign writer... so I'm Guiness Drink quids in! Up to the individual methinks, I was at a job the other day and a geezer from across the street dialed my number straight off the van and gave me a nice wee lighting job. First time ever that I'm aware...

Like Riggy says, some kind of damper in the ducting would do it. Ask whoever supplied you with the duckting if they have dampers that you can fit in it, they probably manufacture something to suit. No mechanical engineers on here?! Duckting?! You need some duckting baby... Daffy the rapper!

You're laughin' then!

Commercial call out + minor repair... 50 squidlies plus parts in my book. They're all different, 2ft and upwards. If it's an older sign they'll be T12's (fat) or T8's (thin) both of which I think they are trying to do away with but your wholesaler will still be able to get you them. Need to...

Likewise with most of the guys, Nightmare... you go to see the job and faced with old couple who have been in the house for thirty years filling every space possible with very pretty and very breakable ornaments, pictures, mirrors etc. It adds a huge amount of time. Shifting furniture from one...

Got a wee repair job goin' on just now where they have IR receivers in a stainless steel hood to operate an automatic fawcett... something very similar installed to protect the reciever and give a flush finish to the steel. I need parts for it and I have found the guy who built the electronic...

Did it bleep from the first moment you switched the new one on or did it it take a few days. Kitchen's (although the obvious place) aren't the best places to install smoke detectectors (smoke, steam etc.) they tend to be better just outside. Don't mean to be patronising here either but the...

RCD's can be buggers. I almost always warn customers before DB changes (particularly in older properties) that they may experience some nuisance tripping. You change an ancient rewirable fusebox to an RCD consumer unit and the RCD will trip for earth faults in the wiring, or in equipment that...

Wot a great thread that was!

Yup, you're right Andy... I don't know what you're talking about tho! :D Was talking about pool pump but you're still right, needs replacing! ;)

"He's" still the King?? Gave up that chippie malarkey years ago ;)

Been watching the youtube vids of these things and I WANT one! Missus always says 'but you don't NEED it' My well versed repy 'it's not about NEED' Guiness Drink:p They do look v. handy tho and the consensus amongst the knowledgable seems good... :D