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With all these new fan-dangled inverter driven appliances and chargers, LEDs, TVs etc being plugged in leaking DC current and DC current masking type AC RCDs, I believe any new consumer unit should be fitted with type A RCDs/RCBOs to future proof against this. As mentioned above the problem is...

As special location says never assume anything is isolated, the safe isolation procedure must be carried out and if you can't do that and you still want to do any works on the installation the best advice would be to turn everything off at all MCBs and the main switch.  The stickers on the CU...

😂 very true.

Cheers fellas, it does seem that there's still thicker lids available then.

Their favourite one is re-editing a series, usually one of these reality documentaries type things, I forget their proper genre, where they're in a train station, going round a factory/construction site and the likes then claiming it's new when it's just a rehash of an old one or a mash up of...

Are the cast lids still available for steel conduit boxes? Can't seem to find them anywhere. Im not talking about the very thin flimsy lids made from steel sheet that wholesalers seem to sell nowadays, I mean the old thick solid cast lids that would tighten and clamp down nicely onto the rubber...

In my opinion it would be deemed good practice if wiring a house to still run in a 10mm cable to the gas and water incoming pipes even if they are plastic (no need to connect them), just to future proof.  Not so much of an issue if both supply and house piping is fully plastic but if there is a...

I agree in rentals stick them on with the lighting.  These ones are (or should say were) fed from the local lighting point, linked via radio bases.

Exactly right, everything is disposable these days, even the car is becoming ever closer to becoming a fully disposable item, frightening. Fast and cheap everything, all at huge costs to the planet. This throw away world we live in combined with the population explosion is a worrying recipe for...

Disconnect bonding conductor at MET, long lead test to the pipe/structure, not the clamp, this way you are checking the effectiveness/continuity of the connection of the clamp to pipe/structure. If there is any doubt that the bonding conductor isn't continuous or is unidentifiable at the MET and...

Yeah. Whilst some of it is outside the scope of an EICR it's interesting some of the stuff you find. And of course the obligatory dumped mattress in the front garden and three piece imitation leather suite in the back garden.   Well within the scope of the EICR was the bonding clamp fitted to...

Extractor fans turned off (that's the oldest one in the book). Family home. Smoke alarms removed from their bases and nowhere to be seen, leaving the property without smoke detection, the landlord had the radio base interlinked smokes fitted before tenant moved in, the following makes this...

It's not really a lockdown this one. It's a closure of retail/entertainment.  None of my jobs booked in this month have cancelled, the first lockdown I didn't do a day for 3 months. There are a lot of businesses local to me that closed in the first lockdown that have publicised that they'll be...

4k Video Downloader. Works very well.

There's a lot of these light fittings you can buy that are utter tosh and cannot be fitted well to UK wiring. A lot of them claim to be class 2 when it is almost impossible to maintain the class 2 rating when installing, particularly when being installed DIY by somebody who doesn't really know...

Potential national lockdown for a month starting this week 'leaked'. You go into some places that take it seriously, screens, masks distancing then you go into other places that you'd think it was pre covid or they hadn't heard the news for the last 6 months. We're in tier 3 or whatever they're...

Consider converting the fittings to 12v and running via a transformer, this isn't always possible but is a much safer way to run garden lighting.  It'd be more advisable to use armoured cable under the gravel than under the flag (although you still should under the flag). It's less likely to be...

Not worth messing around with load testing, for what they cost stick a new battery in and pretty much guaranteed to sort it. Most of the batteries are rubbish shipped over from china now and have a very limited lifespan. Half of our estate is a few years older than the other half, all had the...

Hydros will be standing by for pretty much instantaneous start up.  Same as with electric vehicles, just move the pollution elsewhere. Not sure how much forethought has been put into where all the power for these electric vehicles is going to come from, over the next 10 to 15 years there's...