Vortigern
Arms
Just to highlight how wicked people can be. This set up was bad enough. House is just bought from deceased estate. Typical '30s house. See the old stuff. Loads of DIY by octogenarian around the house. (previous tenant dcsd.) One socket in each room with loadsa extensions. But what got me was that a wet room was put in (couple of years ago?)with a BG box main switch RCD etc. with an electric shower. Now actually there was no earth whatsoever in the house. The connector block, and the bare copper wire was actually crudely attached to the lead water pipe under the floorboards. You may be forgiven for thinking that it was the TNS earth. However look at the block, anything wrong there?......The green/yellow was supposed to be the shower earth /sigh!
This is terrible no earth and a very poor attempt to connect to earth which completely missed I expect no cert no BC notice. So these poor old folk probably forked out a fortune for a wet room shower etc. that was highly dangerous. Ok. rant over. But it does actually quite upset me that people can be so callous.
P.S. That last photo, bit of a find porcelain fuse (with fused neutral) and the cable classic crumbly special. No wonder the electrics didn't work!
P.P.S. I was there to put in temp supply for builders. TT'd it and pleased to say got 29 ohms, admittedly it was raining but good to go i'd say, just temp til PME is put in by WPD.
This is terrible no earth and a very poor attempt to connect to earth which completely missed I expect no cert no BC notice. So these poor old folk probably forked out a fortune for a wet room shower etc. that was highly dangerous. Ok. rant over. But it does actually quite upset me that people can be so callous.
P.S. That last photo, bit of a find porcelain fuse (with fused neutral) and the cable classic crumbly special. No wonder the electrics didn't work!
P.P.S. I was there to put in temp supply for builders. TT'd it and pleased to say got 29 ohms, admittedly it was raining but good to go i'd say, just temp til PME is put in by WPD.
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