Hi,
never ceases to amaze me some of the shoddy electrical work some DIYers do..this is what I have come accross in a house.
1 socket in 1 bedroom didnt even work, had cables going into the back of it.. but dead.
found about 6 junction boxes under the landing floor that were completely inaccessible once the floorboards and carpet is down.
owner said, they couldnt even use an electric chip fryer in their kitchen because it tripped everything out.
9.5Kw shower wired in with 6mm cable, with no isolator, and... best bit was not even on its own circuit.. it was wired into the 32Amp socket ring main MCB inside the consumer unit, and some of the cable in the bathroom end comes out the wall with no kind of mechanical protection before going into the shower... seriously.. would it hurt them to of buried it in the wall so it entered the shower inside the unit? or at least used some trunking to protect it from damage.
4mm main earth from the CU to the Cutout
4mm earth to the gas pipe.. and the clamp was not even tight it was moving all over the place... from there the earth wire went back off somewhere else.. presumebly supposed to of gone to the cold water services where it come into the house... except no earth visible anywhere near where the cold water come in.
GET branded Consumer unit used.. without any kind of isolator.. the RCD was the isolator.
none of the neutral and earth wires in the correct places inside the consumer unit.. was a case of just shove em anywhere despite the numbering.
even the earth terminals labelled B for equipotential bonding...they had stuck the shower cable earth into it.
earth wires sharing sleeving, and all in the old green only colour.
flex cable out back garden powering outdoor light hanging down the wall.. wasnt even free to move where it passed through the wall, had been cemented into the wall... let alone outdoor UV rated.. could see the cable was deteriated just by looking at it.
No supplemental bonding in the kitchen or bathroom.
Sockets trip RCD and all lighting goes out throughout the whole house where everything is RCD protected on the 1 RCD.. but not split.
just a complete mess... people like this.. how can they seriously think they are competant?.. surely the loose earth clamp on the gas pipe would of been an obvious thing to tighten up.. not just leave like it.. even if they didnt know anything else...but its just plain dangerous and an accident / fire waiting to happen.
never ceases to amaze me some of the shoddy electrical work some DIYers do..this is what I have come accross in a house.
1 socket in 1 bedroom didnt even work, had cables going into the back of it.. but dead.
found about 6 junction boxes under the landing floor that were completely inaccessible once the floorboards and carpet is down.
owner said, they couldnt even use an electric chip fryer in their kitchen because it tripped everything out.
9.5Kw shower wired in with 6mm cable, with no isolator, and... best bit was not even on its own circuit.. it was wired into the 32Amp socket ring main MCB inside the consumer unit, and some of the cable in the bathroom end comes out the wall with no kind of mechanical protection before going into the shower... seriously.. would it hurt them to of buried it in the wall so it entered the shower inside the unit? or at least used some trunking to protect it from damage.
4mm main earth from the CU to the Cutout
4mm earth to the gas pipe.. and the clamp was not even tight it was moving all over the place... from there the earth wire went back off somewhere else.. presumebly supposed to of gone to the cold water services where it come into the house... except no earth visible anywhere near where the cold water come in.
GET branded Consumer unit used.. without any kind of isolator.. the RCD was the isolator.
none of the neutral and earth wires in the correct places inside the consumer unit.. was a case of just shove em anywhere despite the numbering.
even the earth terminals labelled B for equipotential bonding...they had stuck the shower cable earth into it.
earth wires sharing sleeving, and all in the old green only colour.
flex cable out back garden powering outdoor light hanging down the wall.. wasnt even free to move where it passed through the wall, had been cemented into the wall... let alone outdoor UV rated.. could see the cable was deteriated just by looking at it.
No supplemental bonding in the kitchen or bathroom.
Sockets trip RCD and all lighting goes out throughout the whole house where everything is RCD protected on the 1 RCD.. but not split.
just a complete mess... people like this.. how can they seriously think they are competant?.. surely the loose earth clamp on the gas pipe would of been an obvious thing to tighten up.. not just leave like it.. even if they didnt know anything else...but its just plain dangerous and an accident / fire waiting to happen.
.. everyone has different ways of working and oppinions on how things should be done.
