240 volt outside light measuring 180 volts.

[TJ Anderson]

Rough as a Badger's bum, whoever did that should be hung drawn and arrested by the Electric Police, downright dangerous

They would have to carry out the arrest first Pete surely

 

[Therolster]

Cheers for confirmation about this work. There are at least 7 1.5 t&e coming out of the bathroom light so me thinks maybe there is a terminal block monster in there and when we put some of the old girls stuff up the loft we may have dislodged one. It looks to be going across to the way the rear outside light is, possibly...know knows. I'm not going to get heavily involved here but I'll take a look.

She does indeed have the cert; NICEC.

It's when you see stuff like this that you can really appreciate the quality work that proper spark do. Makes me wonder that if you can cert this ten surely part-p is a bag of nuts.

 

[driverman]

Has there ever been an electrical certificate issued? As it was an extension being built, was the local building authority informed? If so was the extension signed off?
Re the photos! I wouldn't let the guy who installed, no threw it in, back indoors at all! It wants reporting, full stop.

Opps, sorry, possibly didn't see page 2.

 

[Therolster]

Yes building regs been round but more interested in footings than anything else, so I'm told.

 

[Des 56]

He can report this to the Niceic,but guess what their policy happens to be ? lol

You will need to give the original contractor the opportunity to rectify his(hesitates with words)installation work

If you fix the mess or someone else fixes the mess they will then wash their hands entirely
They will not admit that they enrol some numpties even when there is strong evidence,it could tarnish their reputation you understand

All in all,I don't see any prospect of the lady getting it sorted with any satisfaction soon

 

[SJD]

Re loft access, if the two lofts are at the same level, is it not possible to remove a few bricks, and create an opening big enough to crawl through? I'm not saying the OP necessarily has to do this, but there ought to be access somehow.

 

[Therolster]

Des56 - agree totally mate BUT...surely if part-p is not a load of b-lls, then this sort of stuff should not be happening anymore. As far as I'm concerned I find this stuff all the time. She has a NICEIC cert number, but guess what...contractors part is still here too. Me thinks I'm not even going to get involved in this too much.

Thanks to everyone on here, proper sparks, for your comments. Totally professional.

All the best

R

 

[Therolster]

SJD - agreed my friend. I did consider this. BUT as my daily work has an alarm clock that goes off at 5:30 and I don't get back home til near 7pm I'm reluctant to take on board this level of work. Possibly would have in early years but 50 is knocking on my door mate and knees, elbows and all else aches these days ;>) I'm sure I've whinged there and some of ya older sparks will kill me ha ha BUT I was a loft rat for many years and still are (just in another line of work).

Anyhow...many thanks for all your help and info with this interesting issue. ;>)


R

 

[brucelee]

You should Tell her to contact him and ask him to come and show how it complies with regs or get onto NICEIC as Des says and ask them to meet him at the ladies to discuss remedial work or recompense for unsatisfactory workmanship that may have left her installation in a dangerous condition

 

[Therolster]

Cheers Brucelee. I think she is now in the process of doing some of this. Not sure what the outcome will be but at least she's taken some action. Her husband of a life long marriage, a great bloke and builder died last year - brain tumour. I guess this sparks (and i hasten to call him that as the word t-sser comes to mind) thought 'no bloke about, no ones going up the loft, no big deal'. Wrong!
Anyhow to all on here, thanks for your help and support. Truly a great site/ forum. Professional sparks hey. So...how do I close this thread down then me old fruits as I'm sure you have newer and equally insane threads to tackle ;> Cheers again.
R