A Rant About Incompetent Electricians!

[Piratepete]

I've taken the stand that I will not pass off anybody elses work and I actively tell Joe Public to use only Part P registered guys. This is not a guarantee of a good job but it helps. At least his test gear is likely to be calibrated, he'll be insured and he'll be up to date with the 17th Ed., he'll test and issue certificates and even maybe know how to do the work.
Case in point.
Got asked to a 25year old house to redo a loft light. Found no switch (connected to study light below) and done in flex.
Was then invited to the recently refurbished kitchen and utility room (converted from attached garage).
There was no accessible isolation for any of the white goods. The double oven was connected to the ring cct. The ring cct neutral was open circuit. The wall mounted TV was directly connected to the ring cct as was the kitchen extractor (the flex just disappeared into the wall!). The new lighting in the utility room is connected to the ring cct but not via a fused spur. Even the under cupboard lights were directly on the ring.

The guy who did this lot, a relative, has been practicing in south Brum for the last 2 years, Gawd help us!
Apparently he even found somebody to pass his work off!!!!

Resigned sigh! Pete

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Know what you mean Glenn, we used to do a lot of local authority work & to be fair a lot of them were'nt as bad as the private houses lol. Seen my old apprentice run out of 1 or 2 but that's not for an open forum:blush5:

well my boss seems a bit indifferent to it all.....used to work for the leeds city council see.....but the way he just shrugs it off..lol....mind you they can keep fitting them crappy surface boxes for me..;..as they soon get whacked off the wall/skirting board by furniture legs and parties n stuff.......so we have to replace em.....tut tut....IPs gone on that love.....got to change it......

 

[Specialist]

Just make sure to wipe your feet before you go into the street, don't want to contaminate the pavement lol. If you ever find out where all the Smoke heads dissapear to let me know mate, we used to replace so many for 1 Authority i kept a box of 20 in the van.