tobydog
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No, just an invoice. Now this has turned into a Grump :x
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Did the electrician advertise himself as Part-P qualified? If he was, and if he filed the right "paperwork", then I believe there is a way to retrieve it online somewhere. You might well need this should you ever decide to sell. As a worst case you could get another electrician to check everything out and certify that it does all conform to spec and then get the necessary paperwork from him.tobydog said:
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That's a good point. When our kitchen extension was being signed off by building control I asked if they needed a copy of our electrician's certificate and they said they'd already seen it as it had been submitted online - which was news to me at the time!
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The electrician was actually introduced to us by the plumber who is a friend of ours. I'll follow up with him. As it happens, NFU will need a new electrical certificate for the whole house shortly anyway so I may just do it that way instead.
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I think you'll be okay with a Victorian house. It's actually item 7) of NFU's Thatch Insurance Conditions. It reads:
"7) The electrical system in your home must be inspected at least once every 10 years and must have been inspected within the last 10 years."
We had a large extension and some refurb work done in March 2010. A certificate was issued at the time but we've carried out several upgrades and improvements since. As these wouldn't have featured in the 2010 certificate, I'll just cover all bases and get a new one. Hopefully the electrician won't take too much of an advantage of this in looking for new work. I suppose I would be somewhat stuck if he makes a borderline recommendation because NFU would probably expect to see this fixed. Could he suggest a total re-wire based simply on age as opposed to condition? The whole house was re-wired in the 90's but it's all a bit like Trigger's 'old' broom in Only Fools and Horses.
"7) The electrical system in your home must be inspected at least once every 10 years and must have been inspected within the last 10 years."
We had a large extension and some refurb work done in March 2010. A certificate was issued at the time but we've carried out several upgrades and improvements since. As these wouldn't have featured in the 2010 certificate, I'll just cover all bases and get a new one. Hopefully the electrician won't take too much of an advantage of this in looking for new work. I suppose I would be somewhat stuck if he makes a borderline recommendation because NFU would probably expect to see this fixed. Could he suggest a total re-wire based simply on age as opposed to condition? The whole house was re-wired in the 90's but it's all a bit like Trigger's 'old' broom in Only Fools and Horses.
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Hobden said:
We've been with NFU for a few years, not thatched, and have never been asked for an electrical certificate.
Only if it was very old I suspect. The sheath on an electric cable does decay with age so they might refuse to change a fuse box if they couldn't be sure of the state of the cables coming to it. When we had our house rewired the electrician showed me some very dodgy 1950s wiring - the insulation was just crumbling off the wires and any accidental wiggling of the cables (e.g. when crawling around the loft) might have caused interesting effects! I was glad we'd opted for a complete rewire.tobydog said:
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None of my flowers have come out. Snowdrops, grape hyacinths, crocuses. They've got plenty of leaves but no flowers, so they're not dead, just lazy.
Zebra, how annoying. It's probably either that they weren't planted deep enough, or they were previously forced [i.e. made to flower earlier than normal] and so don't have the energy to make flowers this year. Pigeons will sometimes nibble the flower buds on snowdrops, but I doubt they would eat all the buds on all your bulbs. 
Are your neighbour's bulbs out? Maybe it's just been very cold where you are? And while one would expect snowdrops to be out (and indeed almost over) by now, there are late varieties. I have some and they're only just starting to think about flowering. Grape hyacinths I can't comment on as I won't have them - veritable pests!Zebra said:
Today I found out that not all Earthborn paint is created equal. Bought three tins of an identical colour (Shallows) - turns out that one is darker than the other two...
So I now have a random section of ceiling and a bit of wall that is noticeably darker. And it turns out my wife doesn't like the colour after all. I'm really getting to hate this spare bedroom. :evil:
So I now have a random section of ceiling and a bit of wall that is noticeably darker. And it turns out my wife doesn't like the colour after all. I'm really getting to hate this spare bedroom. :evil:
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JBean said:
This is probably the reason. They were all dug up last year after flowering, hung in string bags in the shed while I made their beds, and tucked in again in September. I've probably done it wrong.
Why does everything need doing twice?!
Lord give me stripes!
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Zebra, the rule of thumb is to plant a bulb in a hole three-to-four times its own depth. Also, why do you dig them up? Virtually all spring flowering bulbs can be left in the ground to flower again the following year. The bonus of this is that they will often naturalise, and you'll get more of them year by year.
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Well, I do have grape hyacinths and crocuses flowering but none of my snowdrops have come out this year, and I haven't touched them - previous years I've had a decent number. I put this down to a really cold night soon after they were showing early, before Christmas. This cold caused a black tip on the leaves.Zebra said:
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a twig said:
Best not upset your wife otherwise you could be seeing it and hating it even more! :lol:
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No no, I don't dig them up as a matter of course, every year! Good Lord! I landscaped my entire garden last year, built raised beds from old house bricks, sieved all the soil, levelled the paths, laid terracotta paving...... you get the picture. They had to be moved so I saved them and put them back in.Penners said:
Ah. Yes, I see I didn't plant them deep enough. Thanks.Penners said:
