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Once issued with an unsatisfactory report your landlord/lady is required to rectify within 28 days.  Fusebox has definitely seen better days but the cabling doesn't look that old. Whatever needs doing electrically isn't really a concern for you other than the inconvenience to you while the work...

It's kind of chicken and egg. In my experience they turn a blind eye to the notification. Just notify it after your assessment. You have 30 days to notify (although there is nobody to pull you up on this) so time it right and you'll be within that time frame anyway and you'll be safe from the...

I'd say it's definitely not your fault, they're the ones doing the work.  Is it the main DNO service cable they've gone through and was it buried in the wall? I'd imagine it went with a fair bang if it was.  Cables can be run any which way in reality but vertically and horizontally above below...

Fine to leave them in if they're redundant but usually removed both for space for new cables through joists etc and for a weigh in down the scrapyard. 

Common on new builds to see the faded G/Y cable coming out of the wall to the pipe between the gas meter box and the wall with an indoor rated BS951 clamp corroded onto the copper pipe with a poorly made off verdigris cable stuffed into said corroded clamp.

As mentioned don't go hammering anything into the wall above the switch. If you need to hang this mirror there use some kind of adhesive fixing. If it's just a standard switch blanking plates aren't a great deal slimmer, you might gain 5mm of clearance. To be honest the whole thing sounds like...

Have you tested the feed to the transformer. I have a small low voltage test lamp for testing things like this rather than using multimeters which for reasons I can't explain can sometimes not show up low voltages where a test lamp can.  However it's all chinese tat nowadays so it wouldn't...

Keep it simple, forget this ring and widow maker setup. Whatever you need in this box install and connect to the appropriate sized appliance inlet on the trike (16a or 32a) same as you would on a motorhome, catering truck, ambulance etc. Make them a standard cable (not a widow maker) h07rnf is...

We do need to be told and warned and whatever else, as dumb as it sounds. The human race has known about this for decades but still we consume at a rate far greater than the planet can sustain. The planet is way over populated. I read somewhere that we are consuming at a rate of 1.5 planets and...

Needs to be an agreed LIM and stated in the limitations section on the EICR. As Murdoch states you still need to do an R2. A lot of down lights are class II so you won't get any joy at the fittings themselves with a wander lead to the casing but switches must be checked, a week later along comes...

Rewire it in the 3 core flex as suggested, then if you can, find somebody who can stick it on a PAT machine or do an earth continuity test and insulation resistance tests on it to ensure it's fit for use. 

They're in guidance note 8 (18th edition version), so the regs don't tally up with the guidance notes either, no surprise really. 

I'm a bit out of touch with routes into the industry now but there are helpful groups, if you're on Facebook you can look up and join the sparkyninja groups. GSH on youtube cover training and have plenty of training videos so they might have some routes into the industry videos. There's a guy...

Condolences.  You've probably already thought of this but have you ever made payments to each other, going through your account history/your setup payees you may be able to find an account/sort code and Identify the bank from that, won't cover all his accounts if he had more than one but it...

Napit were the cheapest I found, not much in it on the first year but a bigger difference on the subsequent years. They offer monthly payments which may help with the cashflow if you"re starting out on your own. Can't comment on NIC but Napit let you do a job for the assessment and then notify...

It's a stunning building all round, unfortunately like many of them it leaks like a sieve and needs millions spending on it. The original electrics are very well installed, plenty of MI and original fixtures and accessories around. The fire and CCTV boys have been in and made a right mess of it...

Thought this might be of interest to some of you. Still in operation controlling the house lights. Located in a 1900s hall. Was interested what they did regards the asbestos when a fuse wire needed replacing but there wasn't anybody around that knew. And the other end.

The pointless sticker award goes to the mixed wiring colour one, if you can't work out there's colours to two versions of BS7671 you shouldn't be meddling with it in the first place and second has to be the RCD test button sticker for the most ignored. 

I solely stick type A in now for everything, price difference isn't all that much. In most cases a new board is going to sit there for the next 10 to 15 years at least, new appliances, lighting and god knows what other new stuff that is brought out is going to be hanging off those circuits in...