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As it is a small flat, I would first unscrew and inspect the connections at every socket. That in itself will tell you a lot about the instalation.

This is where communication between you and the tester before the test is important. If he is sent to "test" than that is what he does. I prefer to talk to my customers and at least have a quick look to see if you can find the fault. This is a bit like an MOT tester failing your car because a...

The meter tails through separate holes is fixed by taking them out and putting a hacksaw cut between the 2 holes then replacing them with the correct size. Sounds like a wrong make MCB has been fitted, simple to swap for correct make. The more worrying thing is no ring continuity. Rather than...

IT was a DIY Joe additional spurred socket. Thankfully not far away in a stud and plasterboard wall, so correct cable pulled through and connected properly, CPC and all.

Doing simple little non notifiable jobs is not all plain sailing. This from today's "change a few switch and socket fronts" job.

It's commercial customers, who expect you to send them an invoice that are the usual slow payers. A card terminal would not speed that up. Stage 1 towards retirement, I don't fo commercial any more.

At the level the OP is intending to operate that won't trouble him. DEFINIELY stay below the turnover threshold for VAT registration, you don't want that complication (which will force MTD on you) I do my accounts on a cash basis, which basically means you record income and expenditure when it...

If they are just twisted together, chances are on a light fitting that you have not yet touched, they have come untwisted. All you can do is point out to the school that it might be a quick fix or might take a long time to find the fault. And by the sound of things you need to buy a job lot of...

I'm with Andy on this. Fill one out by hand and give to the customer, job done and complete. Anything else means going home, entering it into your computer (from your hand written notes) and printing it or emailing it to the customer. I do that for big jobs that need a EIC especially if it is...

It was wanting a low running cost house, the fact it is green was a bonus. There is no mains gas here so the choice is oil, LPG or electric. Making the house well insulated enough to work with a low power heat pump means similar running costs to mains gas, and no need for an oil or LPG tank...

Also miss reporting. There has been a problem up here with coastal erosion over this last winter, most notably golf courses built on coastal sand dunes. We have had a lot of storms lashing the coast this year which has been the root cause. The the journalists go and throw in "rapidly rising...

I will just add that all the "experts" lose 99.9% of their credability as far as I am concerned when they try and tell us that burning wood on an industrial scale at DRAX is "carbon neutral" when any idiot can see the same CO2 goes up the chimney as if it was burning coal, but only now there are...

Well I built my new well insulated house all electric with a heat pump. Better than burning the roughly 2000 litres of Kerosene that we did in the last house. Our runabout car, that we use for shopping and most long journeys if we don't have anything big to transport is hybrid. But I do have...

Mine is sub £100 with Direct Line business.

I would say you still want PL insurance, unless you want to foot the bill if you damage something in a customers house while working, And register with hmrc as self employed.

Well SWMBO works in a commercial kitchen, all stainless steel worktops and commercial sized ovens, microwaves etc. She was telling me of staff getting a "tingle" from one (of 3) microwaves. They had reported it and had electricians out twice. The problem was the one on the lower shelf, the 2...

For jobs that require building control anyway, new builds, extensions etc, it is covered by building control. BC will want to see an EIC for the electrical work and that is all. If the local BC don't know you they may check your qualifications. I am known and EIC's accepted in 3 council areas...

My motto is "never touch anything that my neon screwdriver has not touched first"

Choose a different smart switch that does not need a neutral. Some work by charging a battery from L / SL when the load is turned off.

An ASHP is typically 300% to 400% efficient. So you could get 4 times the heat out than the electricity consumed to make it do that. It's not magic, that extra energy has come from the air outside, you have cooled down a lot of air and in so doing extracted energy from it. So some people...