Hello everyone, sorry but this one will be a long one. I am fairly new here, I used this amazing forum nearly everyday for 3 years now, but that will be my first post, this forum with its geniusmembers helped me through my courses, which I past with distinctions all theway. I done C&G 2330, C&G2382, C&G2391, C&G2399 and Part P course.So thank you all for your contribution..
I am hunting for some jobs to use it as my assessment for theregistration with those Part P bodies. Basically I was asked to price the job. The house is big four storey split in two, therewas a fire, I had to look for extent of damage and price up for rectification.Checked the premises, the only damage is 2 consumer units burned out, my mainconcern is cables, they all burned out and would be too short, so I will needto somehow extend them (maybe by crimping), or should I better replace thecables from CU to the first points (the later will change the price considerablyas there is a lot of cct). And do you think it could be more damage to thecables which I cannot see?
So I would like your comments on anypart of this thread, thanks in advance for your great contributions
Below is a copy of my letter witch Iintend to send to the client, there is more info on the installation, so feelfree to comment on anything you like, I am ready for some toasting guys, becauseI think the only way to learn is the hard one….
Dear client, After what I seentoday at the premises, my main concern is the lack of consideration on thedesign stage of the installation, I am very surprised that this was not pickedup when you had the installation done 3 years ago as when I was told it tookplace.
Basically you have a property split in two:
1. Basement and Ground floors
2. First and Second floors
Both of them havetheir own supply meter and own 60 A distributors cut out fuses. Each of themfeeding (as much as I could see from burn out equipment) 15 way 100 A splitload consumer units??? This is absolutely not acceptable. Don’t want to be tootechnical, so what I am saying is that your load demand doesn’t match thesupply characteristics from your electricity supplier.
So taking that in consideration you must contact yourelectricity supplier and ask to upgrade your main cut out fuses to at least 80A or in fact 100 A each , stating thatelectrician strongly advised you to do that.
And we on other hand can do your side of installation.Having checked the extent of fire we can confirm that due to that you don’tneed a full rewire. We will need:
· Tracing and identifying what each circuit isfeeding (which can take fair amount of our time considering the size of theinstallation and all the labelling and identifications burnt out)
· To replace two consumer units with all mainswitches, RCD’s and MCB’s ,
· Extend or maybe replace up to the firstpoint the burnt out cables,
· Replace the damaged fluorescent light fitting inthe main entrance and maybe some smoke detectors.
Taking into account that you have an installation as new as3 years old and presumably no faults which we might need to rectify as we go,with all installation certificates supplied to us on our request, the price wecan estimate is( ),alllabour and materials included. Materials will be well trusted MK make. Anyextra works which might come up after we inspect and test your installationwill bring extra charges, but let’s hope that it will be straight forward andeverything will be covered by the price above.
So looking forward to hearing from you
Regards:
I am hunting for some jobs to use it as my assessment for theregistration with those Part P bodies. Basically I was asked to price the job. The house is big four storey split in two, therewas a fire, I had to look for extent of damage and price up for rectification.Checked the premises, the only damage is 2 consumer units burned out, my mainconcern is cables, they all burned out and would be too short, so I will needto somehow extend them (maybe by crimping), or should I better replace thecables from CU to the first points (the later will change the price considerablyas there is a lot of cct). And do you think it could be more damage to thecables which I cannot see?
So I would like your comments on anypart of this thread, thanks in advance for your great contributions
Below is a copy of my letter witch Iintend to send to the client, there is more info on the installation, so feelfree to comment on anything you like, I am ready for some toasting guys, becauseI think the only way to learn is the hard one….
Dear client, After what I seentoday at the premises, my main concern is the lack of consideration on thedesign stage of the installation, I am very surprised that this was not pickedup when you had the installation done 3 years ago as when I was told it tookplace.
Basically you have a property split in two:
1. Basement and Ground floors
2. First and Second floors
Both of them havetheir own supply meter and own 60 A distributors cut out fuses. Each of themfeeding (as much as I could see from burn out equipment) 15 way 100 A splitload consumer units??? This is absolutely not acceptable. Don’t want to be tootechnical, so what I am saying is that your load demand doesn’t match thesupply characteristics from your electricity supplier.
So taking that in consideration you must contact yourelectricity supplier and ask to upgrade your main cut out fuses to at least 80A or in fact 100 A each , stating thatelectrician strongly advised you to do that.
And we on other hand can do your side of installation.Having checked the extent of fire we can confirm that due to that you don’tneed a full rewire. We will need:
· Tracing and identifying what each circuit isfeeding (which can take fair amount of our time considering the size of theinstallation and all the labelling and identifications burnt out)
· To replace two consumer units with all mainswitches, RCD’s and MCB’s ,
· Extend or maybe replace up to the firstpoint the burnt out cables,
· Replace the damaged fluorescent light fitting inthe main entrance and maybe some smoke detectors.
Taking into account that you have an installation as new as3 years old and presumably no faults which we might need to rectify as we go,with all installation certificates supplied to us on our request, the price wecan estimate is( ),alllabour and materials included. Materials will be well trusted MK make. Anyextra works which might come up after we inspect and test your installationwill bring extra charges, but let’s hope that it will be straight forward andeverything will be covered by the price above.
So looking forward to hearing from you
Regards:
, there is 4 electrical showers throuhout. Will need to identify cct's first for aplying diversity, but I am sure well over 60 A. Sorry for my lenguage , its not my first ,in fact english is only my third lenguage....
