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There'll be 6 wires in there. 12v + & -, a tamper pair and an alarm pair. You need to power down the panel as there are some small fuses in the panel, if you just go at the cables in the sensor you'll most likely pop one of the fuses for the 12v power. Colours used can vary so you'd need to...

Disclaimer, I know very little of caravans. What kind of electrical requirement do statics have? I'm assuming they're on gas bottle hobs, ovens and heating. Appliances are fridge, TV, toaster and kettle, some LED lighting. If my assumptions are correct they'll probably sit at a few amps for most...

There'll be millions of houses with this junk in them. There's a tidal wave of it coming over from the far east, they're building bigger and bigger ships to carry it over, the latest ones carrying 24,000 containers at a time, orders in the hundreds to build these ships, not only online there are...

The only way to know for sure is pulling it and opening the holder, the only people who should do this are the DNO. If it's a 60a there are chargers out there with CT clamps that monitor the current and reduce the charge to the vehicle accordingly to prevent overload of the fuse and can avoid...

My limited knowledge of hydrogen gives me the view that it is just a big middle man, take the electricity used in the production and distribution of it and put that directly into an EV.

Agree in normal conditions you wouldn't have seen what was next door, but now you know what's next door and although it's unlikely, there's a chance that the earth could at best be temporarily disconnected, or worse disconnected permanently. You would hope that any decent spark wouldn't...

If an electrician leaves without a happy ending a complaint should be made to their CPS  :D

:popcorn   :Applaud

There have been a lot of people who have fallen through the net unfortunately and have been entitled to nothing, way too many of them. That is unless of course they happened to know an MP and were able to secure a lucrative PPE supply contract or a contract to develop a useless app, but as per...

The good old sausage on a stick, burnt black on the outside, raw on the inside. A good one we used to do was a frying pan on a fire (no need for it to be on a fire, just because), jam sandwich dipped in batter and then fried.

Fuses don't blow at close to their rating for a very long time if at all, the worst thing you can do is just slightly overload a fuse. If you're out there all night with a couple of heaters plugged in at 4kw the 13a fuse is going to take forever to blow, you'll melt the fused spur first, very...

Difficult to compare the quote, how much groundworks involved etc if the spark is doing them or somebody else is, making good etc. Some outdoor sockets are a tenner others are 60 quid, a lot of variables.  Anything outside I tend to keep separate from any existing circuits where possible, might...

Yes so long as main bonding is in place and all circuits within and travelling through are protected by 30ma RCD.

True, hadn't even thought of that. 

Absolutely, but wouldn't expect anything else, in the same way that when this is looked back on in the next few years it'll all be how great the gov were at vaccinating the nation whilst the worst death toll in the world will be glossed over and barely mentioned. 

The way I've understood it they usually band it in 3 month periods so the grant in april will be to cover the months march to june. You could only claim the third grant from the end of november to january but it was for the period including october (I think). I may be wrong though and there are...

It'll have a green PAT sticker on the plug though so nothing to worry about 😁

BS7288 not included in 7671 but in GN8 they're recommended. This is a new GN8 that has allegedly been updated to be inline with 18th edition.

I use electraform and if you select unsatisfactory the recommended date on the front sheet changes itself to "from date of issue" and the next inspection due date section is removed from the second page.

One theoretical example: Old house, central heating pump has a FCU, You test Zs at that point, reading within spec for the protective device. Deduct Ze from Zs, fill out your R1+R2 on the cert. A week later along comes the plumber and puts a load of plastic pipe in. you're unlikely to go back...