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Found this in a customers house! Single sunken back box with earthed conduit, bought forward into surface mount double but no cpc. Solution? Cable tie and wrap cpc around it! (Just to clarify not my work)

Just been to a house where the customer has had a socket installed in the bathroom and it had stopped working (not installed by me). The electrician who installed it has tried to get round the regs by installing an IP rated socket! Ironically if he had sunk it into the wall it would have been...

Hi i was wondering if anyone else has experienced problems with cheap LED bulbs? i have started seeing more problems with the circuit boards shorting out. I had a customer with 16 GU10 LED downlight in the kitchen and found that 5 had stopped working 1 has shorted and was tripping the circuit...

Hi I know this has been done to death but i was wondering what the rules were for site work regarding fibreglass ladders. I currently work for a large company in domestic properties and have to use the issued equipment, which includes aluminium ladders only. So I have worked off them for the...

Hi long time lurker thought I would join in the fun. I currently work for a large blue chip company and specialise in domestic fault finding (seen a lot of very poor work, I could fill the pages of professional electrician mag 'caught on camera' every month !!). Thinking about biting the bullet...