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You can pretty much sum up every move the government has made during this pandemic with the saying "closing the door after the horse has bolted". It's not an easy thing to manage or govern through, nobody is saying it is, but the shower of excrement we have in charge and how poorly they've...

There's a website that list all UK charities, their income and how much of that actually goes to the cause they are a charity for, some of them are frightening.  

We're an island. Should have been a severe lockdown in march, not the mickey take that they actually attempted in March, Police and army on the streets asking people what they're doing and heavy fines for anyone not following the rules, borders closed to anyone.  Ease out of lockdown but...

Just done my calcard check on my meter this afternoon on one of your cards which is a great little idea. The RCD ma setting on your machine. Mine starts at 10ma then 30, 100, 300, 500, 1000. It's a megger 1552 (yes an older MFT) not sure how that compares to the newer ones. Time settings seem...

From what I understand of it they're approved by NHBC for the 10 year guarantee but local area building control issue certification for compliance with building regs. I think the LABC on a lot of estates don't check anything it's done by an approved freelance inspector, similar to self...

I'd forgotten how much of a success part P was at improving the standards of electrical installations as a money making exercise  :lol:

It's an offcut of flooring board.

For about 30 seconds yeah  :D Yeah they're all Lewden in a Lewden enclosure. The odd coloured one is a newer one, a C type.  The only logical (I use that term loosely) reason for them doing it was to seal the hole at the back of the consumer unit but they only did the one so makes no sense...

Bubble wrap. New Build, say no more. The armouring was connected at the other end. CPC via the 3rd core. 

Thanks for the input and information everyone.  I'm guessing this is why the 2.5mm minimum is stated in 541.1.1.  It'd be interesting to know how many installers calculate the suitability of T&E for use in settings other than domestic.  In a domestic installation where you wouldn't...

I was at the wholesalers today purchasing some 2.5mm singles to be installed in steel conduit and got to thinking. You can use the conduit as the CPC I know,  but the way I was taught and the way I've always done it is to install a CPC with a CSA matching that of the size of the Line...

That's about the size of it. The only maintenance the average install gets, particularly domestic is when something goes wrong and stops working. You go to do a job and do some testing, find faults and try and explain this to the customer to get "well it's worked fine for years" or "it was ok...

 The cynical part of me would bet on the agent negotiating a rock bottom price for the EICR then putting their own margin on top of it "arrangement fee" or similar.

Totally agree. They pump out new regs and amendments at an alarming rate without looking at the real underlying issues which are, lack of knowledge/experience, poor workmanship, unfit for use/knock off equipment flooding the markets and unproper regulation of the industry.   People who've had...

They're incredible buildings. Some pictures below of the one we visited. I too was surprised about the size of the lens structure, huge, a lot of chunky glass. There's a huge amount of kit in the building below it to power and run the thing too. 

The below (not my picture) is different to the one that would take the above 20kw lamp but gives you an idea of the kind of size.  They are behind a glass fresnel lens but incase that breaks there's a wire mesh to catch any exploding glass. The finer meshes you can see on the lamp below are...

The pins on these are 11mm diameter each so with a bit of drilling out of the GU10 holder   :innocent

The "small" one is 12kw. The large 20kw. Out of some Fresnel lamps.  The 20kw boasts 5.7M lumens, a life span of 350hours and a price tag of around a grand.  Both of these are busted. 

Yeah bog standard is Type AC. There's still rewire-able fuses in abundance round my way.

It's an expensive way of heating, difficult to say without knowing the house heating setup but you might be better getting thermostatic valves fitted to your radiators and running the boiler but turning off rooms not in use.  The new LOT20 (a piece of legislation not a brand) electric heaters...