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Have a quote to complete for some work in out buildings at a farm. Having read the appropriate section regarding Agriculture buildings I see it says I cannot use a TNC earthing arrangement.  No problems as I'm thinking of making the outbuildings a TT arrangement.  Just out of interest I thought...

Today I visited an 80 yr old lady to look at doing a quote for her.  She had called a local plumbing and heating company who had persuaded her to have a new combi boiler fitted to replace her old system boiler which had a corroded flue.  She agreed and the boiler was replaced and moved into the...

I have a customer who wants some downlights in the dining room, but they want them with a square surrond rather than the usual round one.  I've seen some cheap and probably very nasty ones but can't find any decent quality fire rated ones.. Has anyone know a make or where I can get some from

I got a call from a customer saying his electric shower was tripping the mcb every few days, there was no pattern to the tripping, shower is used every day and sometimes will go 3 or 4 days without it tripping the mcb and other times it will trip eery day or so. Sometimes trips when shower in...

I know this has been aired many times but I came accross the following situation this week and wondered what the ideal way to tackle it would be. We've all talked about expoting the earth from a house to a garage/shed but............. The situation was this Detached bungalow with a detached...

Can anyone offer a little advice on what coding I should give the following, I've put what I'm thinking of giving but I would appreciate a little help from those with greater knowledge and experience. Rubber wiring from con unit to cooker point - IR was 299M ohms L-N, L-E, N-E. r1+r2=o.06 no...

A picture or two from today's little fault finding job The first one is the result of a swa cable being attacked by a hover mower and was still live when I tested it This second one is the 'quality' fitting of a consumer unit for the garden lighting and water pump/fall the consumer unit...

I've just started a rewire of a small property. My original thought was to have seperate radial circuits for upstairs sockets and for downstairs sockets and a ring for the kitchen sockets. However the kitchen is only small, will have a max of 4 double sockets, provision for a fridge/freezer, a...

Just had a quick look on the job centre website and it comes up with around 40 jobs for electricians in the lancashire area. So if anyone is interested may be worth a look. It was the jobseekers.direct.gov.uk website and I searched for electrician in the BL1 area or within 20 miles. There...

Been to look at a premises with a view to installing a nw circuit. These are pictures of the cut out. It is clearly marked near to the earth terminal 'PME supply do not remove'. But then coming out of the cut out on the bottom left hand side is a 16mm green and yellow insulated cable which...

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I've been asked to do some work in a kitchen that's being altered. It is going to have a central island of units with a work top. They want a power supply to it for some sockets and plinth lighting. The problem comes because the floor is 'solid' not sure yet what its made from but I'm unsure...

Called to an office block this morning, following a report that some of the staff were occasionally getting electrical shocks and a contractor fitting some new cabling for the computers had got a couple of shocks from the metal frame of the ceiling. After speaking to the staff it appears there...

These are a few photos from a recent job where the 'lights' didn't work and I found rather an elderly installation. The others are from a pir done on 08/03/11 Hope the link works, all this linking, embedding etc is sooo confusing...

Can anyone help identify this electronic component found on a gas valve and what is it's purpose. The picture was sent to me by a plumber/gas engineer. http://s1187.photobucket.com/albums/z399/mikelleach/

I have a customer who is a bathroom designer/fitting company. They have asked me to look at a job where the house occupier wants to install 'in floor lighting ' and under floor heating in a bathroom. I've done under floor heating before but not in floor lights. I might be being blinkered but...

Been asked to look at an audio door entry system which is faulty. The reception of the voice from outside has a lot of interference and if your outside you can hear what is being said in the office. My initial thought was perhaps one of the switches is stuck leaving the communication line...

I currently use IE 8 but find it incredibly slow and not very stableheadbang. I'm thinking of changing browser but which should I go for. I'm sure you people on here have experience of different web browsers and which is better and which to avoid.

Been asked to quote to wire an extension, the extension is mainly a kitchen extension and a small lounge area. The specification is too provide a new consumer unit for the extension (too include cooker circuit, ring circuit for sockets, lighting and too put an existing shower circuit in to give...

A family friend asked me to replace a TV ariel point as the cable kept dropping out of the old one,and on certain channels the reception was poor. Changed the ariel point and it has improvedthe reception except on ITV channels. ITV 1 isn't too bad but ITV 2 and 3 are poor. The picture often...