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I'm not a REC, but I am checking a newly bought house with a generic circuit tester (it found bad wiring in another property). Plug in thing with RCD test button. Have two of them, different sources. Both do not trip the house circuit when I push the RCD button. I've not been able to get an...

I reside in the republic of Ireland (where plugs and sockets are the same as in the UK), and I just bought a portable electric generator online from the Netherlands. Unfortunately, now that it has arrived, it turns out that the two electric sockets on the generator are Schuko sockets (each 220v...

I noticed today that the mains switch in our CU is a single pole (63a fused) switch (only Live attached) - when did they do away with Double Pole mains switch and wouldnt Double Pole be safer than single pole so that when you turn off the main switch in the CU it kills both live and the neutral...

An Electrician has been gaoled for six months (with none of the sentence suspended) for carrying out Restricted Electrical Works without being a Registered Electrical Contractor (REC) and for falsely claiming to be an REC...

An Electrician has been gaoled for six months (with none of the sentence suspended) for carrying out Restricted Electrical Works without being a Registered Electrical Contractor (REC) and for falsely claiming to be an REC...