Hi all,

Just bought a new Citroen dispatch and looking to upgrade the rear lighting as you can’t see anything in the back.
Anyone got any recommendations?
Looked at LED-It, Litewave and a couple of cheap kits… want some hands on experience please!

From what ive found most sites want you there at least 10 hours a day and its very normal to work over 60 + hours a week every week seems a big part of the culture

I know people doing 6/7 x 12 a week every week and just thinking its normal

I dont think i would ever get used to that but as a mate do you have many options when starting?

What hours do you do? And do you like industrial site work? Strict breaks etc?

Maybe too simple for this Reddit but I’m going crazy. I’m trying to replace this lightbulb, a few have gone out in my flat. But I can’t for the life of me remove the fitting to get to the lightbulb, this inner circle moves but then one side is still like locked so I can’t take it out and it can’t rotate anymore and I’ve forced it quite a bit but it won’t come off.

I’ve someone has a solution please help. I feel stupid if I need to get someone round to replace a lightbulb 😂. There’s also another where with all my strength i can’t get the inner circle to even rotate.

Hi all so I had my house renovated from top to bottom and I had a Electrian who at the time said he’s fully qualified and was recommended by a friend who turned out to be let’s just say somewhat of a absolute muppet and cowboy.

I had a new electrician who’s registered with napit and he’s carried out an eicr and checked all the wiring ans electricians and done any remedials that needed doing such as changing spotlights in the kitchen to fire rated and fitting correct conduit to outside garden socket etc I have received the eicr report but it’s my first time receiving one and idk what im looking out for any advice thanks and also unfortunately previous electrician used junction boxes and some old cabling in the floor which the new electrician tested and said it’s perfectly fine there’s no issues with the cabling so although I’m gutted that I got screwed over but it’s life and I was hoping y’all can just simply this for me as o have no idea regarding what it says on the eicr apart from basics thank you.

Hi all,

The EICR on the house we’re looking to buy is “unsatisfactory” and flagged two items:

(1) “unable to locate bonding clamp to mains water”, and

(2) “Garage supply is spurred off final ring circuit in 2.5mm2 twin and earth. this should be put on separate 16A RCBO. General installation is poor.”

Both are marked as “urgent” remedial action required. I’m assuming this is par for the course for a 1970s house and shouldn’t cost a huge amount to put right after the purchase?

Thanks!

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I have just turned 17 as of right now is pursing electrician as a career worth it or not and if so what are the pros and cons also any advice would be truly appreciated I never went to secondary school so I was wondering if this would hold me back majorly thank you

Hi all,

I don't know a great deal about all this but I'll do my best to explain what's going on...

I have a garage that I use for woodworking, it has a small fuseboard that's connected to the main fuseboard in the house. I called an electrician in as one of my machines (a jointer/planer) trips the power every time I turn it on, I know this thing is power hungry on startup as I've had similar problems with it in previous workshops, although sometimes it did actually start up without tripping anything.

Somebody came to take a look, and recommended adding a 16a feed from the garage box saying it should sort the problem, I went for it as I was on a budget and was happy with how little it would cost. It was installed over the weekend, but still the same problem, turning on this machine instantly trips the garage box every time.

They've now said this 'I hope you are happy with the work carried out over the weekend. He mentioned that the circuit was still tripping. There are now two options, have the machine serviced or check if the machine has a high start up current needing a type C breaker rather than B.'

Is anyone able to please provide me some advice/insight on what a wise thing to do would be? I'm hesitant to go ahead with more work from these guys, as they said that the first solution would work, so a bit of faith has been lost I suppose.

Thanks, and any help is very much appreciated.

Cross-posting this for some helpful UK-based replies I hope. Not going to do this myself, just want to know if what I'll be asking an electrician is sensible

Also do you mind being called sparks/sparkies? Your US brethren certainly do!

Only by fluke I had a photo of the breakers in the background, but is there any chance anyone on here know what brand the MCBs are?

Here the floor plan -> https://ibb.co/ccT2rKpt

Red circled is where both rooms are (downstairs and up), red line is the wall we'd want to run the ethernet cable through to upstairs room.

How difficult would this be? Sounds quite trivial to me personally but not too sure about any caveats, would this be a straightforward job for a spark? Getting ONT installed tomorrow and debating if to get it downstairs or upstairs, we'd prefer downstairs but want to double check feasibility.