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Hello,

Had a sparky install a new consumer unit, has it been done correctly. Bare in mind the chap cut corners on other bits of work he was contracted to do.

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Hi - it’s compulsory that all the connections are properly made with good workmanship and materials. And it’s nice to be neat. Mostly these things will all go together. So, in my view the poor looking terminations in the board are all suspect. I’d just rebuild and retest. The other work may need looking into as well, just saying.
 
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davesparks said:
Sounds a bit cheap to me, but not ridiculously so.
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Hmmmm. I’ve just come across a CU much worse than this on an EICR. It’s a new customer so I quoted £400 for a new consumer unit, new bonding, a couple of hours of other remedial work. The £400 fee included the EICR which took much of a day. He’s knocked me back - saying I should do it all for £350.
Stalemate because I’ve already done the EICR. My bad. Lessons learnt. He hasn’t got his ‘Satisfactory’ EICR and I’m out of pocket - but that’s another story.

My point is that my ‘customer’ (the landlord by the way), has, I suspect, paid a very low amount for a rewire and CU only a few years ago (harmonised colours). The work is appalling. He called me in when he realised there was no earthing or certs. He went for the lowest quote and got John Wayne. I did think it might have been done by a competent electrician who just got fed up with haggling and walked off the job. I doubt it though, because it was done so badly - we are obliged to leave everything in a safe state no matter which way the customer relations is going.

Back to this post - I would do this job for £500, properly, and be happy.

No excuse for the amount of copper showing at every connection. Crazy - and it makes me wonder if everything is tight and whether prongs of busbars are on the right side of MCB clamps etc. Just does not inspire confidence.
 
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