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Hi Patrick and welcome to the forum. I would suggest that you get the electrician back and fix your problem. I am, as are all forum members, not in full knowledge of your particular installation so could not assume anything other than it does not work how it should. If your electrician is a...

People have had points for circumventing the swear filter, I would much rather see **** as it is. we all know what it says without the extra work. Example dog **** camel **** fox **** See its all ****

a little editorial abuse. We have a forum sponsor @eodneil I am sure he will point you in the right direction, after all that's what he does for a living.

You could feel the electricity, it made all the hairs on your body stand up. I hated it, but I do feel comfortable around live installations as a result.

We use to work on rooms like that. We could re-direct distribution through the busbars using a long pole with a hook on it. The action had to be firm and smooth or the forks would arc and weld together, or blow to smithereens.

Yes Canoeboy has to travel upnorth and turn it off

Interestingly I was looking through some old copies of The Engineer and found this report from the IET annual meeting in 1954. http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/e/e7/Er19540326.pdf it will of course only be interesting to those with a nostalgic engineering bent. The topics and the...

The problem is Andy if the fuse blew the pendulum was supposed too drop indicating the fault, in bad weather they often got stuck in the open position. I do not know much about them as I was only a young lad at the time but I know enough that no one liked going anywhere near them.

We had one in the late 1970's outside a cotton mill, no one would go near it.

Bloody hell that's old. The pendulums use to stick and did not work properly. Most people did not like to tap off them. That's if I am on the right track. ;)

This is an example of a 3 gang grid plate. The switches are sold separately so any configuration of switching can be achieved.

Most people have not heard of them but it is the new re-branded name for the Electrical Safety Council

Hi Mr James, unfortunately giving information over the internet about disabling alarms is not what any one within the law would like to do.

I see a spiral, but if you adjust your eyes (like you did for those puzzle pictures) then I see circles.

It also has the advantage that if the outlets do not correctly match up, nothing is lost other than a longer length of flexi conduit required.

The method you describe is the probably most often utilised. However I have always found that if you terminate into a galv stop end conduit box you can come out of that with flexible conduit direct into the sockets. Or if using a standard galv back box you could do the same but use a metal blank...

I have often heard that people who advertise as odd job men get more work than if you advertised as an electrician.

If it is important to you and you would not like to wait you could PM a moderator with your concerns. All moderators have to act without prejudice and must act fairly

I hate it when people bring racism into debates in order to  justify their standing. I have not seen one racist remark in the whole of this thread. Not one person has stated that all Polish are bad or all Romanians are bad or that they are all the same. The examples given have been witnessed...

I am not even mildly racist, I have many friends from other parts of the world and religions even extended family. One of my past apprentices was Muslim, one of my best friends is Romanian. I have been many of their homes and enjoyed their company. The example that I gave is one I have...