£4K rewire what do you expect ...

[Dustydazzler]

when it comes to rewires you literally get what you pay for , £4K allows 3 days to complete the job , of course it’s going to be thrown in roughly imo

 

[Soi disant]

Or in the old days some short of cuts of cables nailed to the rafters as make shift loops to bunch all the cables together neatly up out the way

A practice which made me think that perhaps the installer here not removing all the old cables might not deserve total condemnation, as cables clipped like that can't just be pulled out.

 

[mattg4321]

You pay 2 sparks and a lad £250 a day in total, or am I reading that wrong?

I thought that too. Surely not.

 

[i=p/u]

Two rookies and smokey

 

[leep82]

Can somebody tell me the problem he seems to have with plastic blanks being fitted to the front of the consumer unit?

 

[Soi disant]

He dislikes them. It did look as though he tried (and failed) to justify his dislike by pushing on them to make them fall off.

 

[i=p/u]

Blanks made of steel for steel board

 

[loz2754]

Blanks made of steel for steel board

Er. No.
Are the MCBs also made of steel?

 

[leep82]

He dislikes them. It did look as though he tried (and failed) to justify his dislike by pushing on them to make them fall off.

I was wondering if he was going down the route of questioning their suitability

Blanks made of steel for steel board

why?

 

[Soi disant]

Er. No.
Are the MCBs also made of steel?

I tell you what definitely aren't....


.... the MCB shaped blanks that go on the busbar.