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    Pendant light wiring help

    Probably wired in singles and earth, so brown singles and earth switchwire, blue last on circuit from previous rooms and twin and earth to the next down light.
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    Accenta 8 Mini house alarm

    Try pressing reset then reset and see if your panel returns to unset, if so try entering your own code again if this fails your panel needs resetting, which means removing the the front cover, so power down remove front cover disconnect battery, disconnect any cable in the set terminal and...
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    New lighting unit installation

    Looking at the cables you have there, you have a T&E with black tape on the earth and a pair of are vulcanised rubber (vir) cables which ceased to be used before 1960 so at a minimum it’s 63 years old, get yourself an electrician to check the condition of your wiring, you mot your car every year...
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    Back box too full for light switch to go on?

    I don’t post here often but it amazes me how much sniping goes on, trying to score points from each other, completely unnecessary, just answer the question instead of trying to prove how smart you are. Another point why clutter your post with pathetic saying clean up your posts so we can read...
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    Any thoughts on this?

    I’ve worked with some sparks who just can’t finish jobs because they get bogged down with the thoughts of all the bits, it will be “phil” go and give Dave a hand to finish that job, next thing you know he’s off to start another job your left with all his mess. This job you would need to go deep...
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    Large Industrial EICR charges ??

    There no such thing as sample testing circuits, sample test accessories on a circuit yes, so a tester goes in plugs his loop impedance tester in the socket circuits a third of the circuits get tested a year later another band of cowboys turn up they test all the socket circuits this goes on and...
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    Regulations for electrical wiring

    I think some sparks are as thick as plumbers or joiners, if I would have don’t that job you wouldn’t have seen anything out of the ordinary. Lots of sparks on here think domestic sparking is easy, it is if you leave a mess like, it takes a long time to become good at installing in people homes.
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    TNS Earth Clamp

    So you bought a house not knowing the condition of the electrical installation, you may need a £5000 rewire, did you negotiate a discount because of the condition of the electrics, seems pretty dopey to me Phil
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    Weird wiring in ex-council flat in London

    Would you buy a car without an MOT but you’ll buy a flat without an electrical report, so called EICR which your surveyor should have advised you to have done, quite unbelievable
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    Wired video doorbells

    You can also pair them with Alexa so that I rings through that as well your phone
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    Light switch wires

    In my opinion you have a 2 way switching for the landing and the same for the hall light not something most sparks do, normally it’s just a 2 way for the landing. So power off remove hall switch from the wall it’s probably a 2 gang switch now note the position of the 3 core cable in the switch...
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    Eicr and Aluminium Twin & Earth Cables

    I think it looks the old stranded 7/.029 7/.044 tinned copper
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    Feeding cable through insulation

    Through insulation, say you derate the cable by 50% it’s hardly like to be over loaded if it’s just lighting is it?
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    RCD tripping

    Are both neutrals on the correct side, and why are they on just one RCD is this because of the two way switch and a borrowed neutral
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    C2 or C3

    Certainly a C3 not a danger overloading the cable any time soon, some crap gets written on this site and it seems to be the same people, what some people are advocating is that should be C2 and fail, just nonsense
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    C2 or C3

    Certainly a C3 not a danger overloading the cable any time soon, some crap gets written on this site and it seems to be the same people, what some people are advocating is that should be C2 and fail, just nonsense
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    New Armeg Competition

    Should we as industry be using poorly manufactured roofing nuts and bolts, correctly size machined screws or bolts far superior
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    AMD 2 - time to flex your credit cards?

    I had my assessment last week and our assessor told me they definitely don’t work on ring mains, so it’s 4mm from now on
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