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Following on from my cable I'd question. Same property. Landlord has agreed to replacing the CU. However the main earth is 6mm. 80a head, PME supply, 16mm tails. Earth is fine by the adiabatic and has no signs of over heating. Supplying a CU that is in a small two bed flat with 4 circuits. 40a...

Hi all, Carried out an EICR today. Wired mainly in this cable. Can anyone ID it? Never come across. Wired in 1979. All tested OK. Just wired to old regs.  Regards Rutts

We are installing some metal partitioning in work. It's powder coated frames with glass inserts around 7ft high. It's mounted on an existing parquet flooring and bolted through to the concrete slab underneath. Now, I'm pretty sure, when I test it that it will be isolated from the MET so it won't...

Taken from google to save me typing!! For new homes and extensions, at least one mains-powered smoke alarm system with detector/alarms interlinked should be fitted on each floor. (Mains-operated smoke alarms should be fitted with batteries as a back-up.) They should be positioned within 7.5m of...

Question for my esteemed colleagues. I've been asked by my boss if there is a legal requirement to have up to date electrical drawings for site. As a printing factory we have a wealth of machine drawings for the control panels. We have installation drawings contractors have provided when...

Wiring a supply to a friends summer house. Long run so we are using 16mm SWA. Picked up the order from the wholesaler today. Put the box of fitting s in my car (Kuga). then went and got the 70mtrs of 3 core SWA. Well, I haven't run a lot of armoured of late and forgot how bloody heavy it is...

Fitting stand alone unit as requested. Find brand new CU had been fitted. Builder used his own sparks. No EIC, no test date. All factory neutrals finger tight. Plus no cpc in at least the down stairs lighting circuit. Plus a radial for a boiler fused spur in 2.5mm on a 40A breaker. ...

Does any one use Dave for their consumer units? If so what do you do with regards to installs that require a 50 amp breaker for a shower install? I was after a stand alone unit for an install that didn't have enough spare ways (even though the CU is only a few months old!!). I asked Dave for a...

Not fitted one for quite a while. Any recommendations or brands to avoid. Thanks

https://press.hse.gov.uk/2019/04/26/construction-companies-fined-after-employee-receives-electrical-burns/

So my eldest daughter is taking her A levels this year and University beckons. Accepted at Uni's, a total of 5 courses. All animal conservation or marine animal conservation. She informed us a while ago that an open day for one of the colleges, Cumbria, was on 6th March. We live in Essex...

This DIY'er says he can get nine cables in....... easy. 🙄

Hi, not sure if anybody still uses them but I've added PDF versions of the 18th Edition certs in the download section. If anyone does use them please report back any error's typo's, etc. Thanks

When you visit the Science museum and a very similar model Megger to the one you own is on display......

One of the fellows that works for me asked for some advice about the flats he lives in recently. The management company that looks after the maintenance and cleaning had contacted the residents to say the communal areas would nee a re-wire. Cost of £18k. To be paid for by the residents. Two...

Just in case anyone was thinking of using it and is it any good. I used it today for the first time on 7 J/B's. All going to be buried under a patio. Although pricey I thought it was great stuff. Obviously it will take a lot of time to tell if any water creeps in in but from what I saw today it...

After quitting NAPIT 5yrs ago I haven't had the need to be registered with a scheme. However my employers have seen fit to request we get registered with a scheme. The chosen one being NICEIC. So today, for my sins, I have now become a QS with the NICEIC. I feel a little like I need a...

Hi, as some of you know I'm factory based. Currently I'm being asked to be 'responsible for site electrical safety'. Which at first I was quite pleased with then the realisation dawned on me what a big responsibility it is (even for someone as irresponsible as me O) )!! However, one thing that...

Hi, carrying out an EICR on our installation where I work. Writing up some schedule of test results and I'm stuck on the reference method for some of the cables. Seven cables feeding four DB's and three commando sockets. Cables are to BS6724 so, as they are copper conductors, BYB points me at...