Recent content by robskiing

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    City Electrical factors - On The Up!

    Rather go to screw fix I've got a CEF near me 5 mins away incompetence is putting it mildly didn't want to serve anyone on the counter
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    Most Used Electrical Suppliers & Electrical Wholesalers

    Coventry North other local sparks won't use them either very inconsistent pricing at times
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    Most Used Electrical Suppliers & Electrical Wholesalers

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    Most Used Electrical Suppliers & Electrical Wholesalers

    I only voted for screwfix because electric center isn't on the list very fair and friendly . I won't use Cef waste of time . I was in one branch won't name them stood at the counter for a good 10 mins and repeatedly rang the bell all sat in the office on their fat arses couldn't be bothered to...
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    New Member

    Hi and welcome its a long road and you learn something every day no matter how long you've been a spark
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    age of the sparkies that post on here?

    Hi I'm a young 48 yrs old been a spark since I was 17. Soon as I passed my driving test given my own van and 100 new houses only one portable genny between 4 lads so very often I had use a brace and bit to first fix houses and a rawlplug tool for the boxes how times have changed
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    more intermediate switch head scratching

    Sounds like your looking into this too deeply draw us a diagram of the switches and the wiring I'm pretty sure someone will come up with an answer
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    Is this Fuse Box Legal?

    Absolutely no excuse we seem to be seeing more and more bodge jobs on this forum why couldn't he move the consumer unit so at least the tails were inside the unit and properly crimped depending how the old cables came down you can sometimes get some slack so no need for extending . - - -...
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    Is this Fuse Box Legal?

    It's probably probably one of them £150 quid board changes that's frequently mentioned on this forum
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    shower not working!

    I'm not a great lover of the 45amp pull switch but when installing 10mm for the shower I always use the Crabtree 50 amp version there's a lot more room and thought gone into its construction most wall sw are pants
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    Joists

    How come then a plumber will come along after you have got boards up and whack great big notches above where you have carefully drilled your holes central in the joist happened quite a few times to me lately they don't give a flying f..... to the building regs
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    Cordless driver

    Electric centre coventry are doing the 10.8v lithium drill driver impact driver and torch with 3 batteries for £143 + vat which I thought was very good I use them every day worth it regardless what the price is
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    3 bed house rewire materials cost

    Depends how many sockets she's having lights whether she has accessories in white or decorative that £700 should cover a basic rewire with dual rcd board , smoke detectors thinking bout it get your list priced up by at least a couple of different wholesalers.
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    Part p, schemes, special locations, need help.

    I wasn't being sarcastic surely they explain in class what you can do and can't do domestic wise if you read some of my past posts I have contributed some of my ideas and have taken advice vice versa I've been in the game 30 yrs and theres hardly a day pass when I don't learn something new.
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    Part p, schemes, special locations, need help.

    I can't believe that a fellow spark hasn't heard of part p have you been in a coma for the past seven years sorry and I not being sarcastic

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