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I will like to know, I have a 2-bedroom property in Midrand and I currently am using about R a day on electricity tokens, which I was told is a lot, below is the items that is in the house. My meter box is a Hexinga. I bought the house and that’s the box that was there. I have a gas stove so no power from there is being used, the geyser is on, the TV’s are on but not through out the day and lights, fridge is on, but that’s about it and we 3 in the property and still the usage is high. Is it possible to do a check and what will be the charge
I have 2 wall sharing outbuildings. I would like 1 of the unit to have plumbing and electric completed. The plumbing pipes are already in place, just need connection in bathroom. Electricity needs to be pulled from main house to outbuildings. Then interior will need cementing in bathroom and main room(bachelor unit no walls besides bathroom). Roofing is in place, it's corrugated. Will need ceiling.
We require someone to do electrical cable runs under the ground around a property (property size Dual Ducting along route for our fibre line. We will need 3 outdoor plug points in a outdoor enclosure (enclosures to be provided by you) V at all 3 points, including the guards room. We are also looking for someone to lay Fibre with 18 Fibre splicing at each camera post.
Fault-finding, Repairs and installations: 1. 2 inside lights (fault finding and repair) 2. Installation of a 60A circuit breaker on the main DB 3. Installation of an 8 way sub DB 4. Running a m surfix cable disconnecting the existing cable from the current nodal point (Underground including wire ways -pvc conduit) 5. Replacing 1 single pole - 2 lever switch. 6. Rewiring of 1 single pole switch - 2 lever switch. 7 . 2 outside floods lights (fault finding and repair) 8. Installation (light circuit and socket outlet) at the guard house. 9. Installing 10 photo cells on the existing circuitry
We had our house renovated and the guys assigned to do our electrical work completed in August, they tried to install a light but opened the DB to draw a wire and problems started..Our earth leakage trips randomly..they tried to fix it but failed, now they had to bypass the earth leakage and even changed the prepaid meter so that we can temporarily have electricity. The previous prepaid meter was showing an overload even when eskom was off. The new meter constantly beeps and signs bypass. We have seen 2 electricians thus far.
Recently my EL on the main DB has been tripping. There is a grid typed inverter(installed 6-8 years ago) with neutral and earth internally bonded before this EL, that has it's own DB board with it's own EL downstream of the inverter. Problem varies in frequency but becoming more frequent. Main DB and EL runs the house. Stove. Geyser. Rooms etc.
Recently had a Mercer inverter installed. Can't understand why green light stops and goes on all the time. This is the 2nd set of batteries he got for me. He doesn't get back to me. I am on pension and have been badly let down and taken advantage of. I cannot afford to pay a large sum of money for a call out. I just need advice please. Deeply disappointed and depressed about the matter. This is not what i bargained for. Thank you.
An electrical installation is a group of items of electrical equipment that are permanently electrically connected together and can be supplied with electricity from the works of an electricity entity or from a generating source. An item of electrical equipment may be part of more than 1 electrical installation. Steps to Install electrical distribution board You must have to install the feeder pipe at first. If you're using metal pipe, place a plastic bushing over the connector threads. Using a tape, pull the electrical feeder wires through the feeder pipe. Leave enough wire to get to the opposite side of the panel.
I would like some residential work done. 1. Remove a current chandelier light fitting and replace with a light and fan fitting. 2. Remove a side light fitting - do want to use anymore 3. Check wiring of the above - current chandelier lights tripping 4. Replace one light with another light 5. Fix a faulty light, switches on but goes off after a while.
We require a new manual change over switch installed at/near the db board. New external water proof plug point installed on the outside wall for the standby generator. Replacement of 1 x day/night sensor operating 2 x LED exterior lights. Replace 1 x "jam jar" light fitting. Remove "illegal" cable installtion to exterior plug point and run new T&E cable from exterior plug point to DB board, through newly installed conduit housed in wall.