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  1. So, I have no idea how the NICEIC/SELECT list/registers work but in essence our local Building Control has just struck back with "you can't have a Building Warrant for the absolutely smallest piece of electric work you can have, have a frigging electric bathroom fan installed", unless the electrician is on the NICEIC/SELECT lists? Our electrician has plenty of City and Guilds certs and plenty of experience and does a wiring job look like somebody ran a comb through your hair to just make it look pretty. Maybe the pretty wiring job should be a sign that he is not a real qualified electrician but only a hairdresser dreaming to become an electrician, but unless somebody tells me the true sign of a real electrician is he makes a huge wiring mess, I'm going to trust my young man... In the mean time could somebody please let me know how these certifications and registers work? You get your City and Guilds 2391 plus two others, and you go off wiring up people's houses (major dangerous work like a shower fan, all that water!!!), at what stage does the rest of the Industry trust you? You don't have to join a certain register to prove your competence, right? So how many electricians who are properly certified are actually members of NICEIC/SELECT? And what authority does our Building Control council tax paid workers to demand that they actually are on one those regiaters?
  2. Somebody already has had the expanding foam idea, presumably this is not the best way of fixing it...
  3. I wasn't planning to do so, just a strip along window, that floor is nailed and how horrible it is to pull those, and it's glued...
  4. My bedroom is bloody freezing and one can feel draughts around the perimeter of the room, and to move the location of the nov bigger radiator I opened the floor up as you can see here. This is a 3rd floor flat built around 20 years ago. What is the purpose of putting very thin insulation on the concrete floor, then the floor joists, and finally the flooring, leaving a big and draughty void directly underneath the flooring? All this does is prevent me from benefitting from rising heat from the neighbour below, it does absolutely nothing to keep the floor warm? If I were to shove additional insulation under here will I later have problems with dampness...?
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