This is going to take me weeks.....

[littlespark]

Got an EICR testing to do on a site soon. Some was done 2018, some 2014... but their office cant find the reports... So got to start from scratch on mapping out circuits.

There's 2 holiday cottages, half a day each. Modern RCBO consumer units. A cafe with some 3ph equipment, A workshop for the gardener/handyman and a little shop all in one courtyard.
Then there's the office, and a couple of self contained flats above, which i believe were last tested in 2020.. so can be left for now.

Then there's this.....



so far i've found 12 old fuseboards.... only a few have been "upgraded" to mcb. There must be more as they're labelled A,B,C,D etc... and i cant find E, J or L
Apart from the cottages, everything is a mix of singles in conduit, MICC, T&E........ Rewirable fuses, cartridge fuses, Old SquareD Qo type breakers (the black ones).....

There are rooms off staircases that don't appear on any of their plans... other doors that have been locked off for decades and the keys have disappeared. (there's a story there for another time)


And it all needs to be done before they open to the public at Easter.

 

[plugsandsparks]

Hope you have some help, electric scooter springs to mind for all the mileage involved..

 

[Rockingit]

Got an EICR testing to do on a site soon. Some was done 2018, some 2014... but their office cant find the reports... So got to start from scratch on mapping out circuits.

There's 2 holiday cottages, half a day each. Modern RCBO consumer units. A cafe with some 3ph equipment, A workshop for the gardener/handyman and a little shop all in one courtyard.
Then there's the office, and a couple of self contained flats above, which i believe were last tested in 2020.. so can be left for now.

Then there's this.....

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so far i've found 12 old fuseboards.... only a few have been "upgraded" to mcb. There must be more as they're labelled A,B,C,D etc... and i cant find E, J or L
Apart from the cottages, everything is a mix of singles in conduit, MICC, T&E........ Rewirable fuses, cartridge fuses, Old SquareD Qo type breakers (the black ones).....

There are rooms off staircases that don't appear on any of their plans... other doors that have been locked off for decades and the keys have disappeared. (there's a story there for another time)


And it all needs to be done before they open to the public at Easter.

If you need a hand give me a shout - that’s right up my street as a daft challenge!!

 

[pirate]

Looking at the size of that place, even a "drive by" EICR is going to take you an hour!
Mind you, I'd also be up for lending a hand as a daft challenge!
You'll need 3 or 4 helpers and a set of good walkie-talkies (one of the other great gadgets we use nowadays!)
Sadly, the Borders is just out of range for me.

 

[buzzlightyear]

i love those bed and buckfast places .no sleeping bags near the front door AIRBNB .

 

[buzzlightyear]

Sadly, the Borders is just out of range for me

front door looks good .

 

[littlespark]

front door looks good .

i think that's the back door.

 

[westward10]

Right up my street jobs like that, me and a good mate just working your way through it.

 

[marconi]

It would be interesting to follow your work via some short video diary reports. Bound to be interesting if only to chat with the people who work there.

 

[littlespark]

I don't know about video diarys... There's some places in there they want kept off the internet for some reason. Hence the locked doors.. they don't want visitors on the guided tours stumbling across things.

I got into one of the self contained flats at the top of the right hand side tower there... full of old clothes, boxes, trinkets etc. There was a wooden chest that simply had "guns and swords" written on it.... and that's exactly what was in there. Musket pistols and a couple of short foils.

History is amazing... although i couldnt stand the lessons at school. This is real.

I'm surprised the guided tours only go through a handful of rooms now. Maybe they'll extend back down to the basement again where they used to show the butlers pantry with dumb waiter and servant call system.

There's a billiard table in one room not getting used, and years gone by, they used to hold weddings... so there's rooms in the basement set up for catering with separate metered supplies, as well as bedroom suites for the wedding party.

The show rooms also have hidden switches that bring on picture lights, and 5A sockets for table lamps, tucked away behind hinged doors on the wooden panelling.