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StevieB wrote:Impressive! Have you got a steel plate between those beams or just 2 pieces of timber? I had thought from the earlier photos that it was a single beam, but from the last photo it doesn't look that way - any sag at all?
Mike G wrote:I see you are using pressed metal profiles for your stud walls, as is common on the continent. Spaniards who visit us here look really confused when I tell them our walls are made of wood.
Mike G wrote:Yeah that, and the conduit thing. We wire our buildings very differently from those on the continent, and don't use much if any conduit at domestic level. Conduit would be necessary with the pressed metal studwork.
chataigner wrote:Mike G wrote:Yeah that, and the conduit thing. We wire our buildings very differently from those on the continent, and don't use much if any conduit at domestic level. Conduit would be necessary with the pressed metal studwork.
Put like that the conduit sounds daunting, but it's actually flexible plastic tube, prewired with 3x1.5mm2 or 3x2.5mm2 single strands. You feed it though the studs off a reel just like you would with UK flat twin and earth - plus you can always pull an extra wire or two in where needed. Around 40c/m for the 2.5.
" using pressed metal profiles for your stud walls, as is common on the continent"
chataigner wrote:....
Oh yes, and I've also fitted and wired the new electrical distribution board.
RogerS wrote:chataigner wrote:....
Oh yes, and I've also fitted and wired the new electrical distribution board.
Oh, I'm so jealous that you're still allowed to that over there.
9fingers wrote:RogerS wrote:chataigner wrote:....
Oh yes, and I've also fitted and wired the new electrical distribution board.
Oh, I'm so jealous that you're still allowed to that over there.
JFDI Roger and if any jobsworth want paperwork get a spark to sign it off.
I don't bother with signing off electrical work but for gas I do all the labouring and get a gas safe man to commission it and make the final gas connection ie tighten up a 22mm compression coupler on the incoming pipe. Last time he ran all the boiler diagnostics and signed off the job for £80 inc vat which gave me 5yrs warranty on the boiler and registartion with the local authority.
There is a muttering about rental properties having to have a regular electrical inspection (Gas safety inspection is already mandatory each year in England). I'm thinking of doing a training course, getting some test equipment and doing it myself.
Bob
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