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Hi guys im hoping you can help.  I was doing an Eicr in a golf club today and in the kitchen the deep fat fryer's 13 amp switch spur was directly behind it so i suggested to moving it to the side wall just in case of a fire so it could be turned off easier. My question is does it actually need...

Hi guys i could do with a little help from anyone that does regular work with fire alarms, i was asked to check out a fire alarm which has door closers in the system, the closers are not holding the doors open anymore despite there being 31v (seems a bit high to me). when the system is put into...

Hi guys i could use some advise please. We are a bit quiet at the moment and we have been getting a few jobs to check that gas meters are connected to an earth cable,no problem there, but our boss is wanting us to run in a new cable so that 1's which are not visible will not need us to go back...

Hi guys can anyone tell me what you should be getting paid for being on-call please. Do you get a rate per day for being on-call aswell as a fee for every call out you get? I believe you get

Hi guys my Megger Multifunction tester stopped working 2 weeks ago and the boss is making me use uncalibrated individual testers at the moment. Is there a legal requirment to be using calibrated testers? These testers were due for calibration in 2009 and TBH i dont trust the readings...

Hi guys I am looking for a convertor plate for an old imperial endbox so I can fit a new light switch without bursting the wall. It's the u shaped thing that fits inside the conduit box I don't know its proper name. Any help would be appreciated thanks kenny

went into this kitchen in a void property to do a PIR and my eyes were drawn to the lines on the wall and floor :o this was a council property recently taken over by a housing association and now has a nice white piece of trunking protecting the new 6mm supply for the cooker :D

went to a job to disconnect a cooker and found there was no cooker outlet and the cable just went through a little hole in the base of the CCU :( some trunking and an hour later it was fixed.

hi guys a friends cooker is making a noise when turned on, after having a look it turns out to be the fan bearings i presume as the fan wobbles about abit, so could i disconnect the fan and turn the oven into an ordinary oven or could this cause problems? thanks kenny

i was at a job today and i found the 13 amp switch fused outlet had burnt out the fuse holder and the cables behind were all crispy and burnt too. the tenant said the cooker stopped working after the switch burnt out, "it should not have thats for a socket" i said so i switch on the cooker...

hi guys 1 of my colleagues mentioned to me about some companies trying to push through a new rate of pay along the lines of

i was doing PIR in this house and the first thing i noticed was the nice little join on the 16mm meter tail. 2x1.00mm twin and earths with all the cores twisted around the bare copper of the 16mm and then taped up :o inside the board they are connected to the bottom of the live bar :o :o...

thankfully it was the apprentice that got the shock not me :o we had to replace a fitting with a pendant, it had a glass cover and a metal base, getting the glass of was no problem then he grabbed the metal base and WHAM he is screaming like girl as i come running in from another room. as...

this picture is taken from a Screwfix Catalogue. maybe i have to much time on my hands to notice this :o :^O :^O

Hi guys 1 of my co workers was at a job today where the gas service check had been done and the gas man said there was a voltage at the radiators as his volt stick lit up. My co worker went in and sure enough the volt stick lit up but when he put his test lamps and also the Megger on it it...

Hi guys i would like your opinion on the situation at work please. we had a meeting with the boss last monday basically him saying we would not get a wage rise for the 3rd year as things are a bit slow. we dont believe that there is a lack of money as the secretary asked him for a rise and she...

Hi guys i was at 2 jobs today where a gas safety check had been carried out recently and they have been told that the flex going to the boiler from the spur is too near the pipes by current gas regs. Has anyone come across this and what did you do? I never did anything onsite except tell the...

hi guys i have a problem with a car show room which has 3 rows of 5 low bay lights 400w type all 3 rows work of 1 switch controlled by a 3 phase contactor. the problem is the middle row keep going off so could it be 1 of the phases at the contractor is not working properly? i dont do much work...

hi guys i have been asked by a friend of a friend to quote for an insurance job. just to replace 4 downlights + a fan in the bathroom connect up a new shower in the bathroom and to fit 3-4 new downlights in the hall way and give the electrics a once over all due to flooding from upstairs...

Hi guys i have been asked to price a job to replace lights in the eaves of a house 10 GU10 type in total. Do they need to be firerated or would the basic type do? thanks