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Having had jobs with long commutes as well as local ones. I would say you need to add the travelling time to your daily hours. 8 hr day plus 3 hrs travelling wouldnt be for me. Also, unless you are getting a van to go to and from work and the fuel, thats another costly expense. It would have to...

You would have to hold their hand and show them everything time and time again.

dont see why not. better than having it trail on the sub floor

I am a maintenance spark and get JIB rates for approved grade just under £17 at current rates. Personally, I reckon the extra skills involved in maintenance should command a higher rate, perhaps technician rate?

nothing wrong with running a lighting cable through a separate run of conduit or if you use crawl space put some clips in to keep it off the ground.

Those board cutters are great. Personally, circular saw, depth set a smidge less than the 18mm board. Screw some support timbers in to hold the board in place. Multitool also handy.

I needed to run some data cables from one side of my house to another (data cables same category as sky/ aerials) I fished 3 lengths of plastic conduit through the floor space, joining the ends as I went. Once finished, I just left it there and ran the cables through it. no clipping or faffing...

I'm a lesser engineer then... maintenance sparks - what do we know? plenty of rings in workshops - I was looking in that funny blue book for the ring piece?

good grief. have we still not received the BS7671 guidance on twisting conductors. No decent properly qualified, experienced spark 'electric engineer' or installer would do it but what do we know?

either flog on ebay and make ££££S or use it and as others have said, use current colour sleeving.

why would you turn the whole house off for a lighting fault? why not just the lighting circuit

Thanks will do

Installed 100's of these in the 80's and 90's and no asbestos in em...

Latest update on this... if you are interested 'Engineer' called and checked machine (Nov 22nd) basically says there's nothing wrong with it and wrote his report. Today I get a bill for £60 for his visit! Not happy and not paying

I'm with Dave on the uselessness of smart meters. I recently moved house and the new property has smart meters. Can't change supplier. the signal locally is insufficent for them to work properly. They are first generation ones and need changing already. I have had offers from my current supplier...

Interesting debate. I guess 'back in the day' it might have been a good idea to twist, given terminal sizes, But in those days we didn't test like we do today. A megger across the meter tails was good enough to connect to supply. so I guess we now know it was a bad idea. Things move on...

I searched online and didnt find the exact parts I needed, However, my estimate for the LED strips were £200 - £300. Given the complexity of stripping the screen (you have to go in from the front, layer by layer) also there are edge lit LEDs too. really not worth it, a 2 man job to dismantle the...

Scrapped it in the end.Very complex job to get to the LED strip and even if you do get to them, cost of new ones £300 or more. In the end I decided it wasnt cost effective and binned it.

Good grief, all I said was he should check that its RCD protected first..... yes all sockets (13a domestic ones) should be but particularly if they are outside! no doubt the original poster will have long gone elsewhere for less complex advice by now. Probably better to stop trying to outwit...

all I can say is with God, a day is like 1000 years. you would think the OP would have posted a pic of his sign by now.....