Please ensure your electrics are up to date!!!!!!!!!

madjay

robby-01 wrote: »

£2800 quid for a 2 bed terrace no wonder he wanted his money there and then.There is one born every minute

How do you thats expensive - I have done a fair few rewires over the years and there has not been two the same...it depends on how many power and lighting point are required....some people want more that others!!!

An off the cuff remark like that helps no one!!!

robby-01

madjay wrote: »

How do you thats expensive - I have done a fair few rewires over the years and there has not been two the same...it depends on how many power and lighting point are required....some people want more that others!!!

An off the cuff remark like that helps no one!!!

They could have as many as they wanted for 2800 in a 2 bed terrace.
seems like there is more than 1 born every minute.

brownbake

Please don't listen to Gobby Robby - he really doesn't seem to know what he is on about, is a bit of a cowboy and extremely abusive.

I don't know if his own 01 moniker relates to customer satisfaction out of 100 or the guys intelligence score?

He doesn't seem to know a lot about electrics - not sure what trade he / she professes to be but I know more than this guy from advice and reading books etc. He is a real cowboy is all I can say.

You want a new shower? The fat Robsters advice is putting in a new consumer unit!!! Nice one Rob. Which episode of Rogue Traders were you on? Please remind us? You are not the fat Irish guy who runs / drives off in his Audi are ya?? LOL

Please mod sort this board out and weed out the cowboys:T

gromituk

While you're about it, "mod", can you please weed out those who accuse others of being unintelligent while themselves not knowing how to use apostrophes in possessives? :rolleyes:

newlywed

Hi, we live in a housing association flat... our fuse board is one where you have to take the fuse out and wrap a bit of wire round it, when the fuses blow. Bit annoying when a bulb goes and blows the fuse :rolleyes: Though doesn't happen often.

Is there any regulation (present or due in future) about the landlord having to replace/update this at all?

Although gas/boiler inspection regulations are made clear with regard to landlords and tenants, have no idea about electric regulations.

Thanks.

savcab

newlywed wrote: »

Hi, we live in a housing association flat... our fuse board is one where you have to take the fuse out and wrap a bit of wire round it, when the fuses blow. Bit annoying when a bulb goes and blows the fuse :rolleyes: Though doesn't happen often.

Is there any regulation (present or due in future) about the landlord having to replace/update this at all?

Although gas/boiler inspection regulations are made clear with regard to landlords and tenants, have no idea about electric regulations.

Thanks.

http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/pdf/3-Step%20Safety%20Checks.pdf

They have a duty to ensure that the premises are regularly inspected and safe.A domestic property should be checked at least every 10 years. if it is a rewireable fuse box that hasnt been checked in the last ten years then i would suggest a periodic inspection is carried out by a "competant electrical firm". It would be the ladlords responsibility to ensure it is properly maintained but many folk who come out to see that will say that the board needs changed

fishingfatty

Ishtar wrote: »

Apparently you can get trip switches that plug into the fuse box, where your fuse carriers currently sit - can't remember how much they cost, but my dad has been nagging us to get them for a while (he's seen them in Focus DIY, and I'm sure they are probably available from Screwfix). Obviously the ideal situation is to get an RCD box, but this could be be a good interim measure.

D.

these are mcb not rcd

dmxdave

fishingfatty wrote: »

these are mcb not rcd

OR RCBO's ? depending on the fuse board

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Distribution_and_Switchgear_Index/CMD_Main/CMD_RCBO/index.html

kaya

madjay wrote: »

Being an electrician, I have see what "so called competant people" have done to their electrics, I can under stand the change in the law, it is for the best. People who think they know it all....DON'T! and can end up killing someone or setting fire to so thing. Leave it to people who know what they are doing.....We didn't do Five years in college for nothing. It for safety reasons not money.

Lol, i don't think that i know it all, and don't see how wasting 5 years of my life in college would make me any safer than i am?, TBH if it took me 5 years to learn electrics i suppose i would charge a fortune for my services to justify the wasted period in my life, im sure you could gain a doctorate in many subjects with not a great deal more study time, i agree that there should be some basic competance certificate to weed out the idiots but 5 years?? in 4 weeks i qualified in commercial gas work( i can design the gas system for a new commercial building from the gas main inwards), im seriously interested in what you did in college for 5 years? after all its not that big a subject matter

tinker1001

It's 5 years part-time in college, not full-time, during which time you also gain a wide variety of practical experience.

Honestly, my husband is an electrician, and the stats on numbers of people killed via dodgy electrics used to be awful. I'm sure some people without the cert (like yourself) are 'competent' enough to do the work, but there must be some way of weeding out the 'incompetent' people who pose risks to other's lives. Don't you agree?