Todays Spot the Fault

Strictly speaking spot the faults.

Clue.  Loop at light wiring, last one on the chain.

Ah this guy obviously got confused by harmonised colour arrangements. Clearly black is classed as a Live conductor so therefore Red must now be a neutral as it’s no longer recognised in current regs. 
question is are we switching the neutral or live? 
And don’t get me started on no earth sleeve let alone a ‘live’ marker sleeve. 
 

I really don’t know where you dig these up from Dave? Are you sure you’ve not got a test bench that you dream all these oddities up on just to keep us sharp??? 

No this was from todays job.  I just wanted to pick up a power feed for a new RF linked smoke alarm. That is what I found when I unscrewed the cover off the ceiling rose.

The right hand cable is the supply, so yes connected wrong polarity, so for god knows how long it has been switching neutral. If someone had stuck a finger in the BC lamp holder even with the light turned "off" it would have hurt.

Question for the electric police.  What would you say the the black to the switch drop now being sleeved in brown?  I don't have any red sleeving any more.

Can't be dealing with people sleeving red brown and black blue, what's that all about

Fleeting said:

Can't be dealing with people sleeving red brown and black blue, what's that all about

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That is not what I am suggesting.  The black switched L needs sleeving, but I don't have any red, so I slipped some brown on.  Will I go to prison?  It will obviously confuse the majority of "electricians" to the point they don't know what it is.

Surely the presence of any sleeve should alert a future spark that there is something "special" about that core?

Geoff1946 said:

Surely the presence of any sleeve should alert a future spark that there is something "special" about that core?

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No Geoff, modern sparks will think that it was just cold so put on its coat!

ProDave said:

That is not what I am suggesting.  The black switched L needs sleeving, but I don't have any red, so I slipped some brown on.  Will I go to prison?  It will obviously confuse the majority of "electricians" to the point they don't know what it is.

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Definitely should go to prison. Just before harmonisation I got 100m of red and black sleeve so still have loads.

No excuses for wrong colour...

https://www.screwfix.com/c/electrical-lighting/cable-sleeving/cat830468?colour=red&cm_sp=managedredirect-_-electrical-_-redsleeving

Prison is guaranteed if they find out you did it!!!

Screwfix only sell it because they had a trillion miles in stock and people with old houses think that's what's needed to harmonise later cables to match existing 

Fleeting said:

Can't be dealing with people sleeving red brown and black blue, what's that all about

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nonsense , almost certainly traced back to the CPS's

Murdoch said:

nonsense , almost certainly traced back to the CPS's

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What is.

Fleeting said:

What is.

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why somebody thinks that over sleeping red to brown and black to blue .....

Well I'm off to the gallows then. I regularly sleeve brown singles with brown, and blue singles with blue.  I do this to denote/remind me which are the mains in/out at switch panels. I'm happy with it as it works for me and that's all that matters. Some folk might not like it, deal with it