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I had a call from a regular client who has one of the dodgiest electrical installs I've ever dealt with. She had the RCD controlling two socket circuits and the cooker trip during the night while they were asleep, the RCD wouldn't reset in the morning, she left it a while then tried again and...

Today's find, Ring abuse, my favourite

So I get to a client's house to do an EICR to then have him tell me about building control not allowing the certificate issued by the previous polish electrician to be used because the registration number he provided did not match any part p bodies. He presented me with the certificate He has...

I'm going to be running a dedicated circuit for just a washing machine, tumble dryer and dishwasher. I want to just run a 20A radial for this. (10m cable max) With all of them going at once, would this be enough? Whenever I try and find out ratings of white goods I mainly just get the kWh a...

Went to quote on updating a fusebox and walked into see this... He was worried about possible fire in the future I told him he should be more worried than that...

I got called out to sort out a tripping RCD the other day. A junction box in a bed of soil was full of mud and moisture. So stripped it all out, re-did the SWA glands with new ones, Wiska box, with wiska earth clamps, wagos etc. We turned it all back on and no RCD trip. Great I thought. As I...

This log cabin has only been built 4 months ago and it's now burnt down. It was quite obviously an electrical problem so I was asked to go have a look. The electrician who installed it works for a company and this was a private job. The company signed it off, however on the cert, his name was...

Can anyone recommend a decent stud detector? Mainly to use when doing downlighters to avoid joists. I've been looking around but most reviews say fine on metal detection but rubbish on wood

Found this on an EICR, now obviously this is the supply side, common sense tells me this is very wrong, but being an earth conductor, is this breaking their regulations? Very useful for borrowing neutrals anyway

I have my sister hassling me about how far down their Virgin Media cable should be (Coming in and out of the ground making a mess of her garden). Considering the regulation in BGB doesn't even state a depth for LV cable, she won't accept none as an answer, trawling the net I found some people...

In the news all I hear is about funding for apprenticeships. Is this something as a sole-trader/very small business can hook on to? I keep getting CVs through but never in an affordable position to take one on permanently.

What edition BS7671 was it where lighting circuits needed no CPC? I come across them so often and I want to know the thinking behind it. Why was there ever this regulation? I'm only assuming but haven't metal light fittings been around at this time? It's like they never future-proofed their...

Had an odd problem with this heater where only one side is giving off heat. I'm not very knowledgeable about storage heaters, but I thought it must be an element, I went away saying I need to look in to it. But my element idea was thrown out the window when I looked at this diagram: Dimplex...

I'm in a property being converted into two flats. The loft conversion had already been done, but it hadn't been signed off. We were in to do the rest The owner wanted the builders I work with to sign off the building work and me sign off the electrical work This is what I found Looks odd...

I'm currently hiring one of those new megger multifuntion testers while mine is being adjusted. It's thrown me when it comes to doing Zs/Ze tests. The manual was useless. Can anyone who has this meter tell me what each setting represents There's Z, Max Z, Zref, R1R2 All I want is to measure...

So I thought I'd start an interesting survey, to gauge an average for new sole-traders to get an idea from How long does it take you to do a rewire and how many electricians are involved in that time scale?

Elecsa have released their branded Amd1 certs. Glad to see they've made their own and not cloned the NICEIC ones, particularly not using all the (IMO ) pointless extras cluterring up the NIC form.

Today I had a bit of an argument with the builder/carpenter/plaster guy who's doing the extension work on a house I'm currently working in. I had to re-feed a switch where the original capping and wire went diagonal out of the safe zone, so I chiselled out the old wire and chiselled my path for...

MK 10way dual RCD with MCBs going for

I recently changed two dead 2-way dimmers, which solved the fault. Everything was working for about 2 weeks and I get a phone call saying the lights are dead again (my assumption is that the dimmers have died again). I'm about to go back to see what's happened. But if it is the dimmers again...