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i have loads of work, as a sole trader, commercial and domestic. I am booked well into October. I dont advertise and my phone does not stop ringing. Everywhere i go i am told how hard it is to find an electrician, get one to come out and actually do anything. Most people are very greatful that...

Working in a place today 145 years old, it used to be a bath house, a very large amazing building on the sea front.  At some point it got divided into 2, 1 half a hotel the other half flats. I needed to get a couple of boards up, burnt out some multi tool blades, couldnt get it to lift, when it...

There is a massive difference. with my old van 2003 VW T4 2.5 Tdi 80ps i did a comparison. I ran it on normal for years and always got roughly the same miles on a full tank. I then tried a tank of premium and is was loads better, it felt more responsive, faster and got more MPG. I ran it for...

i have no problem with customer supplying parts. Often they want the bill to put through there own accounts. I give them a mega deatailed list of what i want and where to get it. If i need anything i just text them a list and wait for delivery. I need 4 screws, get a box of 200. need...

A big job is lots of little jobs. I break everything down to area /room,           lounge - 4 dbl sockets, 1x pendant - 8 hrs labour,  £50 materials.. etc Then if i need to ammend original quote i can add +£50 extra double socket or -£30 1 less double socket. my time estimated is for that...

could it be the drivers? Could try disconnecting one side before the driver see what happens then swap over and disconnect the other driver. where are the drivers located? Where they bought from a proper shop or some cheap rubbish off ebay? Are the drivers a sealed plastic unit or one of...

That sounds amazing, living the dream

since mine last got done i have an alternative sratergy in the back, Expensive stuff comes in at night, not so expensive goes in van vault, I ruffle up some bits and now when opened it just looks like chaos. It takes great skill to open the door and do anything without a land slide of junk...

In the whole salers today and i met an fellow Sparky with the flashest mode of  transport ever, i thought my VW was flash  until i met this dude, ......what was it. Tesla, he had a Tesla for work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He just got it, 3 year old, cost around 90k new and he paid half that i think...

in Essex here most of us have them, my friend tried to refuse one been installed, he didnt win, it got installed.

Halal Pies :slap

Radials and 4mm are very common on my jobs, I hardly ever fit a ring. 2x radials is better then 1x ring (as long as there is enough MCBs)

you removed the boiler feed and used it to power the nest which controls the boiler that now doesnt have power !!!! the instructions do not tell you to do that.

Did Blair not drop interest rates to get our economy inline with Europe, to then hopefully take on the Euro? Property was more affordable when interest rates were higher, as rich people couldnt just rely on poor people to pay the mortgage for the property they are renting. These guys have dug...

Follow the instructions of the Nest and the boiler, its not very complicated

ties in with the latest deal at NICEIC and JIB who will let you be AC installer for 3 years then give you a JIB gold card. You can even accept AC status and get assessed a year later. Proper modern building sites might only allow those to do what the card says they can do. I know some collage...

i dont understand how it can be anything but measured? I put the cable up to a measured point. Someone plasterboards it. I drill a hole to the measured point i put the cable at Unless you plan to stab holes through while someone boards it, which has to be harder then measurement.

Seems like a good idea

I agree with you. He is probibly the same guy the Estate Agents use, who can do an EICR for £100-150  in a couple of hours.