Recent content by Robotstar5

My last experience with HMRC was a couple of years ago when I informed them that my mum had died, I got a letter a few days later "sorry for your loss, she owes us £800 odd, please pay immediately" :mad:

Thanks for the heads up, just treated myself to a Sealey CP1202KIT which I've been considering for a while.

Call me cynical but the increase started after Part P certification came into force in 2005 allowing anyone to do a 5 week course and become certified :( I had to do a 4 year apprenticeship to qualify. Another anomaly is even after 45 years as an industrial sparky I (theoretically) can't do any...

Things have improved now, check out this chap's results using gasless.

Interesting discussion, I class my workshop "CU" as a distribution board (DB1) as it's a sub board fed from from my house CU about 30 metres away. I fitted 16A and 32A switched sockets "just in case".

Recently took early retirement so theoretically should have some spare time if the wife's list of jobs stops growing :) My hobby is restoring stationary engines so my woodwork O level comes in handy for making trolleys to move them around. As my wife's hobby is horses I seem to get a few...