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Morning!! Just a quick question. I'm writing up a EIC for a barn conversion. My question is I have installed a 80a switch at the cutout and split the tails through a Henley block to supply a garage ccu which is supplying an air source near to the garage. Do I have to do another full EIC for this...

Evening Apache Just thought i'd get a bit of advice from you if thats ok Im interested in buying a chocolate labrador puppy and i was just wondering on what things i need to be thinking about when buying the dog and what things i need to sort out at the vets and general costs for the things...

Hi guys, The company i work for asked me if i wanted to be a qualified supervisor for the nic assesment i said that would be no problem. So yesterday i had the nerves set in and had my assesment i was dreading it all day and few days previous as well. Me and the assesor had a good chat before...

Been to a friends house tonight to look at a problem light fitting, they recentley had their ccu upgrade to a dual board by a local company, looking in the cupboard to isolate the supply i noticed the meter arrangement and they have taken two 10mm earths from the tncs supply to the ccu. Is this...

Evening all, I was doing a ze test at a house my company recentley rewired, had a ze of 0.33 no problems with that but before it does the test it brings up the voltage and got 220v at the ccu, should i be worried in this not had one this low before always get over 240v. So i then tested for...

Evening guys, Doing a refurb in an old cottage and customer wants downlight in the ceiling void and there is only 4 inchs of depth. I said i have seen some Click LED lights on the back page of the professional electrician mag, I mentioned these as they seem to have a shallow pot on them.Anyone...

Found this on a farm today when stripping out and replacing with Plastic conduit and singles. This one had no lid on it and the ones that did have lids on seemed worse than this. :) http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/sparky_011/Photo0527.jpg

Evening Been told by a builder to install a couple of fans in a few bathrooms, he has been told by BC that you can vent them out into the main soil stack. I have never heard of this before any of you or is it aload of old tosh? Cheers

Opened up a ccu and didnt think i would find the off cuts of t+e there. http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/sparky_011/Photo0519.jpg

Found this connection in a ceiling i knocked down to install some downlights http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/sparky_011/Photo0482.jpg

Notice anything wrong????

How many more 6mm can we fit in????

Evening guys thought i would show you this, went to a newly finished barn conversion and found this in the kitchen cupboard, do you think it is a bit to close?

My boss has decided to join napit we are a small business with 4 workers in total, he has had an information pack of napit seems a good scheme to join, but do you need to have your 2391 so you can do pir's, but going with elecsa you can opt in to do pir's, with opting out doing this you wont...

Anyone know of any good sites they have used or wholesaler that provides bakelite switches as a customer wants these in her newly renovated house. Do you just put in on a normal metal box and it comes with an adapter so u can fit it on any advice would be grand. Cheers :D

Alright guys and gals, Just wondering what you do when u have a 3 inch board in between the joists and a further 3 inch xtratherm board on top of the joists plus the boarding. How do u make a hole so u get good space to fit an eyeball or tilt downlight. On site for this company we have worked...

X( Had the works van broken into this morning stole 2 drums of 2.5mm t +e, 2 drums 1.0 t+e, 6mm and 2 25mm brown and blue tails. Plus a bosch sds drill X( But the last laugh is on them as the drill hasnt worked for ages so :P

Did a PIR last week and found number of problems at this domestic problem, No earth to gas, No earth to the water only 4mm to the airing cupboard. Did all the tests on the circuit everything came back pretty good 4 the age of the property, but had bad readings on the socket circuits which were...

Anybody used these or planning on usin them? http://www.earthingnuts.co.uk/index.php Noticed them in Professional Electrician & Installer last months edition. :)