Flush mounting installation

Masonry work and installation: basic procedures

The Problem:

• How to carry out the masonry work, lay conduits, wire the system and install the control and lightning devices correctly in a typical apartment with view to saving time during the initial installation, subsequent maintenance and enable the installation to be extended in future if necessary.

The Answer:

• Use the right tools, follow the instructions as illustrated.
• We recommend the use of Gewiss⁵³ products which have been specially designed and co-ordinated to facilitate the work of the installer.
• In a particular manner, for flush installations, the 50 AC Range shows black heavy flexible insulating conduits (floor installations) and RAL 7035 grey light flexible insulating conduits (wall installations).

1. Before commencing. Consult the Gewiss handbook.
2. Mark out the wall installation.
3. Make channels
4. Position the flush mounting junction box

1. Lay a conduit in the channel
2. Cover the channel with mortar

1. How to hold electrical shears correctly.
2. cut flush conduits with the junction box
3. Pull through the cables with the aid of a cabling probe
4. Connect cables to electrical device, following the instructions carefully. N.B. The connection to the earth circuit with yellow/green cable must not be carried out for class luminaries

1. How to wire a single pole one-way switch
2. Fix the switch onto the support
3. Press the plate onto the support until it clicks into place
4. the plate may be removed using appropriate tools.

Gewiss. 1996. Handbook Basic Application Gewiss (English). Bergamo: Gewiss spa, pp. 10-11

THIS UNIT’S QUOTE:“The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.” – Pierre de Coubertin

THEORY: Grammar review: Expressing cause-effect relationships. Patterns of means and end/purpose. Patterns of reason and result.Comparatives. Developing skills.

RECOMMENDED SITES:

• Adverb Clauses - Cause and Effect Relationships (http://a4esl.org/q/h/mb/adv_cause.html)
• Establishing Cause & Effect (http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/causeeff.php)

TASKS

1. What is the gist of the above text? [Maximum 50 words]
2. Spot technical terms and find out their Spanish equivalent, so as to enlarge your assigned lexicon glossary on Construction Engineering / Quantity Surveyor. By the end of this week you should have between 210 and 350 new terms.
3. Structure of the text: follow up the paragraph-structure and identify what aspects are dealt with in each of them. How does this paragraph-arrangement respond to the text purpose and textual coherence?
4. Textual analysis. Identify hedges (matizadores), connectors, passive constructions (conversion into active), gerund and infinitive verbs (why?), compound-words, Present Perfect Tense (why?), causal phrases (to result in, to cause, etc.).
5. Watch the following You Tube video-clip: «German Coast guard trainee» (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR0lWICH3rY) and then answer the questions below:
   1. Where does the joke lie? Is there any pun (play-on-words)?
   2. Compare with the video-clip on Week 2 (The Italian who went to Malta). What seems to be the problem?

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