This was a bit of an awkward position to put the consumer unit as it was in the middle of the house under the stairs. This required us to lay SWA cable under the floor to a service connector block splitting the supply to the consumer units and to a switched fuse to head off …
This was a nice oak framed extension to an open garage we were asked to add sockets and lighting. The photo shows us part way through adding metal clad sockets and plastic conduit ready to start pulling the cables.
This shows part of the first fix bending the conduit around the beams. Then the second fix getting the lights up and working.
Over this past year I’ve kept myself busy constructing an office for myself and a studio for my wife at the bottom of the garden.
It’s always good to get to the end of a project and see the final product. After the initial planning then the months of hard work. Second fix is completed and everything is up and running.
A conference centre we work for have recently started displaying local artists work in their link corridor so it required some additional lighting.
This is something we don’t get asked to do very often but is an enjoyable challenge once we have a plan. There was only a small amount of bending involved to get the conduit to enter the switch box as the angles needed to be tight to the beams, but that meant there was more …
Basement Lights This is one we did some time ago but I had chance to visit last week. It was part of a partial rewire/remodel of an old rectory. Down here we also put a second consumer unit for the heating, pumping equipment and some of the garden lighting.
A couple of days work this week to install a chandelier in a kitchen where there was cable lighting and all supplies to them were in the walls. So with some carefully positioned holes we were able to run a cable to the ceiling and find a joist to hang it from. It was a …
When confronted with a burnt conductor in a consumer unit the only way forward was a replacement and as the regulations are about to change it was decided that an amendment 3 compliant unit was to be fitted. So after a days worth of untangling and testing the new unit was installed and running before …