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If you havn't got anything useful to say go do one , stop wasting my time !  Im getting sick of getting smart arse stuiped answer on here ! thanks for you links , just the kind of thing I wanted. Was talking to another spark last night and he was saying to me it to do with holding the lamp...

Been asked by a few of people that have recessed / down lights with gu10 blubs in them why they keep blowing. Just wondering if anybody knew some kind of common fault or reason why they could blow. I don't know maybe its do with the way there installed or some one has decided to cover them up...

  * something i dont deal with from day to day .

hi , it something i just wanted to check as  this is something i deal with from day to day , this is why i asked the question and thought i would ask and see if i got a anwser straight away instead of spending ages on the internet and old college book and not getting anywhere. 

Hi   i wouldnt say dead teasting was quicker but a compertent spark can  still work safely  and do the job properly doing live testing.

Hi, the custermer had already taken the old fitting down and all the cable wired in corrnetor blocks there hanging from the ceiling as they tried to change the fitting them selfs and wre struggling, that why i had to test and find out what was what . Of coure it make sence to know and lable...

Hi , when i did turn the isolate the circuirt i did prove it was dead by testing at the switch on the suppy and load side as well as the fitting.

Yes it was a digital tester that i was using. will try a analogue test next time and see. thankss for your help.

Hi .  Got called to a job to change a few light fittings.  First  fitting was on the ground floor , two way lighing. one switch was a dimmer and the other was just a bog standard switch. The switch wire was not marked up at the fitting so i did some live testing to find the switch wire. I was...

right my question has been anwsered now. thanks for the input. I think my be i should of typed the question in another way like " is there a reg in the 17th edition saying that you got to have a fan isolater ? and if so where should it be mounted?" or " can someone point me in the right...

ok thanks for that , think my question has been anwsered

it is a fluch to ceiling one , but my point is where to put a fan isolation switch. do it need to go in a hall way out side the bathrrom or above the door in the room. this is what im trying to find out

yes , iv got a red copy , il have a look under section 537 and go from there , thanks

I havnt got the fan yet so not a clue about the manufacturers instructions.

It more of a case of where i have to fit one. Just trying to see if it could go in the loft with the fan or not . Iv sceen them on new jobs with them being outside of the bathroom in hall ways or above the door of the bathroom. if i can go in the loft it save me a job and hassel of chasing the...

main bonding needs to be connected with in 600mm of the pipe work entering the building . It must be on the users side on the water ( after the stop cock) and before the first tee off on the gas.

Can someone point me in the right direction of the 17th edition regs with regaurds to fan isolators. Im looking at fitting a extractor fan in a bathroom that currently dosnt have one. Im trying to see if its a regulation that i need to fit a fan isolator or if its just good practice.