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-2.5 years ago i prepared a new shop intstallation ready for a new 3 phase supply. -2.5 years later they send the first electric bill. -£10,000 bill, only the last 12 months can be charged for so bill reduced to £3600 The customer payed straight away and they confirmed that he was up to date...

If the RCD is additional protection I would C3. 

Excellent, i love hearing about things like this. Got it done cheap, which will now probibly cost mroe then having soemone do it properly. The letting agent will just pay someone to do a PIR for £100 and charge your cousin £200. No one will ever read or understand any of the certificates anyway.

i san francisco when park you have to aim the wheels into the kerb to avoid such accidents in a place made of hills.. apparently

headbang

I did a day about the updates and from everything we went through i can not recall anything about soils stacks. I cant remember any reference in BS7671 to soil stacks ever. Whoever told you this, can you ask them to quote you which reg exactly.

i think most of us elctricians are underpaid.

The friday afternoon method :innocent

My recent NIC visit i was surprised that for my DI i now only had to show 1 full scope Job, half day visit (2.5hrs). He said AC is now 3 jobs day visit and all 3 can be domestic. I had put off going AC as organising 5 jobs woud have being difficult for me, a lot of my commercial jobs are...

Cashless society is the final nail in the coffin, Our cash system is abused bad enough, the bankers will win if it ever happened. wasnt there a weekend when one banks computer system went down and people couldnt access any transfers, cards working etc. Some people couldnt buy fuel, food,  it...

amazing how may proffesions could kill, from flipping burgers to being an electrician. I have worked in a couple private hospitals (as an electrician) and from what i have seen i would prefer to go NHS who are better regulated. The private hospitals are there to make money. There was a thing...

You dont have to have an isolator, As you are fitting a humidistat fan which will probibly start running for ages when you dont want it to, it would be worth fitting an isolator. personally i would just gor for a fan with a timer and no isolator.

Just split the bills 50/50 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would be mad if i was a tennant sharing bills with my family who use electric constantly. Just splitting the bill is very unfair. No access to the supplies for your own flat is awful. I think your tennant suits your standard of installation...

Time served means you have spent a few years getting very bad pay for doing lots of work the employer is charging a lot of money for. It means getting treated like poo for many years on building sites by racist, sexist old buggers who have the hump cos there misses is an old bag. Eventuly you...

A-    you can work for an eectrician with no qualifications. B-  read some IET books, doing the regs course wouldnt hurt if your that keen

i suspect whoever looked at it did not realise they were RCBO's the earthing you can just do yourself IF it does need doing. What is wrong with the earthing? I had a plumber telling me there has to be a 16mm main earth or it doesnt comply, i got the book out and corrected him.

all the fires in consumer units,  is there statistics on who did the bad work to cause the fire.  I would have thought the builder, kitchen fitter, alarm installer are all more likely to have caused the fire rather then a an electrician or domestic installer.

I would say no, just do the 2394/95. read GN3 inside out and memorise the section on periodic inspection. I thought you needed the 2394/95 to be a gold card electrician. do you not test the work you currently do?

what are they like? i am asuming dim. I always go for the more powerfull stuff and put less in, https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Manufacturers/LEDlite/LEDlite_Downlights/index.html http://www.nationallighting.co.uk/LED-Lighting/LED-Fittings/LED-Downlights/tierra/pid/15512

I dont understand why so many people think Part-P is a failure. Before Part-P nearly everyone used to have a go at electrical work. Now i hear a lot of builders/plumbers/painters say 'i dont touch electrics cos of part-P' There are loads that dont care still, but i think it has made it a...