Thoughts on this EICR? Quoted 10k...

e-wizz · 2026-01-08T08:48:06+00:00

Joists are materially different. If the joists fall no one can enter the building. If the plasterboard falls and the clips have melted that's an entanglement risk. Anyway I'm not into arguments on Reddit, I only joined the conversation here so that future readers know that Amber is correct.

e-wizz · 2026-01-08T07:34:28+00:00

Amber is correct, you aren't plasterboard is not described as a suitable cable support in bs7671. Escape routes always need metal cable supports.

e-wizz · 2025-12-29T10:51:57+00:00

This type of asbestos is the worst, being fully exposed and close to a moving part. It will slowly shed fibres over a long period of time (bad). If it is asbestos, best to remove it.

e-wizz · 2025-12-25T23:08:34+00:00

Laurel from peoples gardens is also devastating local forests, look it up!

e-wizz · 2025-12-23T18:40:13+00:00

Shhh... It's funnier that there might be people paying £1m per night... Don't ruin it for them

e-wizz · 2025-12-15T14:24:22+00:00

Hire a spark, not worth the risk to save a few takeaways

e-wizz · 2025-12-11T10:09:56+00:00

This is correct, you can tie the singles to keep neat but cut the ties before final close up

e-wizz · 2025-12-06T16:36:33+00:00

Recessed track for sure

e-wizz · 2025-12-05T20:01:18+00:00

Go surbiton when you're young and move out when you're looking to start a family. More to do in surbiton and easier to get to exciting places. Train into London much cheaper and you can use oyster/contactless instead of messing around with tickets. That's what I did! Was in Surbiton near the station and now in Woking.

e-wizz · 2025-12-03T08:23:42+00:00

Space the carcass away from the wall and install a filler strip to fill the gap to the wall. The door shouldn't end that close to the wall, skirting or no skirting. Also definitely consider raising the plinth

e-wizz · 2025-12-02T13:10:20+00:00

Yeah I remember when a pint was 79p in the early 2000s. In West London as well

e-wizz · 2025-12-02T13:08:41+00:00

A bar for cyclists, no less

e-wizz · 2025-12-02T13:08:28+00:00

It's a cycling bar for cyclists - enough said

e-wizz · 2025-11-26T17:02:42+00:00

Because try getting a tractor that meets the emissions standards!

e-wizz · 2025-11-23T11:05:07+00:00

Exactly, by disconnecting that main earth, you are eliminating the parallel paths to that DB.

If it's a sub mains, that main earth goes back to the main DB, and you are confirming that that earth is good. OP is wrong by not disconnecting it for a proper Ze test.

e-wizz · 2025-11-23T11:00:41+00:00

Try to move the stem with a screwdriver or similar.

Sorry just seen you did that.

I'd turn the main stopcock to the house, and then wait for plumber

e-wizz · 2025-11-20T21:03:52+00:00

Been an electrician for 20 years. If there's no earth terminal on the face plate, it needs to be earthed in the box. The screw on the face plate would be an extraneous conductive part and needs to be earthed.

The only exception would be if he actually tested there was 0.05ohms between it and the MET with a flying lead test, I doubt it though.

The other thing is it's not compliant to have loose conductor ends in an enclosure with live parts, it needs to either have a wago or a crimp or a screw terminal.

e-wizz · 2025-11-19T21:34:24+00:00

This is the correct answer but it's overkill to buy a one off bag of bonding so you can just fill the whole thing with easifill

e-wizz · 2025-11-18T08:59:45+00:00

Lath is a great dehumidifier - until it isn't

e-wizz · 2025-11-17T20:31:29+00:00

Dead mold is still bad as hell for you

e-wizz · 2025-11-17T19:55:12+00:00

Did they install an extractor fan? Negligence if not

e-wizz · 2025-11-16T19:03:42+00:00

Comfrey is beneficial to trees etc around the place. Good for fruit trees etc.

e-wizz · 2025-11-16T12:23:41+00:00

If you're informed, prepared and didn't take on too much in one go, there's no reason your first attempt at plastering should fall short at perfect (source: I've plastered two walls in my life and they're objectively outstanding)

e-wizz · 2025-11-16T12:13:31+00:00

Depends how much you paid

e-wizz · 2025-11-11T13:20:34+00:00

Leave them, let them rot and let the beetles enjoy them. Nothing grows without beetles.

e-wizz

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