Yes, the level of work is appalling, A bit of cable tray in the loft would have solved a lot of the problem. How do you calculate £4K = 3 days work? You must be working on £1000 a day, I've only ever earnt that on commercial, never domestic.
I always want to say to those type of people, what do you do for a living? Followed, would you come to my address to spend an hour using your expertise for no money? - or similar
As per post 14
It appears the most common way to solve a ring final fault lately is to split into two radials. Whatever happened to actually repairing the fault and maintaining the ring?
If the gland plate is aluminium, then it should be fine. If it had been steel, then yes brass locknuts would also have been required along with a slot between gland entries.
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