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Good point kerchin, thanks..crossed my mind...property is end of a cul-de-sac but rear Gdn is accessible, so as you say..tempted neighbours and when the cat's away!... Didn't mean to chop your g off kerching...so to speak!..

Thanks gents..yep I find it strange you can't seem to get double gang extenders..I managed to track down some single 10mm ones recently for changing a lightswitch to a dimmer, was ideal..but a 20mm plastic extender would be perfect for this situation. Hmm..I'd thought about doing something with...

A practical query... I'm putting in a Spur for an outside socket running from a double socket in the nearest room. No FCU required. Customer wants the cable run in trunking from the existing socket (which is flush, metal back box,) rather than buried cable, so I was going to use a mini...

You read my mind binky..as I crash down for the evening, job done and both running in conduit. The FTE is on a North facing passage protected from all elements and no signs of ageing, but put in conduit anyhow. Many thanks:)

Many thanks both, and for your thought re the bends..I've got both 20 and 25mm so no problem there but runs are short. Cheers

Need to run a 10mm Main Bonding cable along the outside wall of a house then into kitchen wall to incoming gas..planning to use conduit on wall (not overly necessary in this situation but just looking to practise my conduit work! ;) ) but, it's running along virtually the same outside route as...

Thanks all for thoughts and yep I'd definitely generally use separate sheets for DBs  for SoC&TRs, it's just this Main Switch business that I was wondering on..as all 3 DBs are at the origin..I know we can adapt forms etc based on the Regs but if you take say the NIC Dom EICR form on the...

Hi, just a practical question re the filling on of a 'standard' Dom EICR form.. Take a domestic installation where alongside the main CU at the orgin sit 2 other DBs (later additions just feeding a couple of circuits each, all internal to the house) All 3 are sitting next to each other with...

No  worries. I bet! :)

Sorry, just to clarify.. the legs themselves are not 'unequal' in that it is both legs coming out from the CU to each first respective socket that has been replaced with the Metric T&E..so ie if you were to chop this ring dead centre the two resistances would in theory be equal, so there's...

?..I was being sarcastic when I said "funny that"..

Thanks SL..you're right..no regs against what is now there..think I was just looking to clarify my own brains wondering..which you've done for me..cheers! :)   Good point re metric v metric..I guess having a Ring that's on a mix of imperial T&E of effectively 2.9mm/1.9mm with metric...

Thanks T, yep I've got scanned pages from earlier Regs with imperial bits and pieces..comes in very useful! :)

Doing a pre-work survey etc, have come across a new one for me..any thoughts appreciated.. 1950s house, Ring Main in original 7/.029 & 3/.036. At some point in the past this ring was grossly overloaded as more extensions and spurs including a spur to two huge garden offices were added to...

Cause if on this oven circuit I'm taking the R1+R2 reading between the CU and the Connector Unit..i'm missing out the last part of the circuit..the cable from the CCU to the oven itself..which is usual is inaccesible. So I'm getting an R1+R2 and Zs to write on the form..no problem...but surely...

Hi all..A question re testing a standard radial BUILT IN oven circuit for an EICR in terms of what's expected/best practice... Assuming I can access the oven connector unit in a cupboard next to the oven as the final connection point.. its my understanding that to do both dead R1+R2 and a...

Thanks techie.. Yep I guess along with 411.3.1.2 etc that within the whole context of ADS the fact that bonding is just a part of ADS then makes sense to what I was musing on...cool..thanks all!

Thanks both. Oh yes, no worries I'll be making sure the rod is sourced and sorted and accessible etc before doing any of the work required  O)  (new CU etc ..there are loads of issues with this house..will keep me off the streets for a while!)  the reason for my original post was just wanting...

Oh don't worry technician..those joys are all to come!..yep the first thing I'm going to be doing is tracing the Rod and ensuring that's all happy and stable before starting any work..mind you .it wouldn't surprise me seeing everything else  if its actually going down to the incoming water...

Hi, grateful for any thoughts..my brain is slowing.. scenario = House with TT..doing EICR before possible major updates. (To give you an idea of the condition the house does not even have RCD fault protection, and what was acting as a Voltage ELCB has been at some point disconnected from any...