advice please

[lilly123]

Yes it is council property, all the houses except 4 are council, they are approx 35 years old and the council is having them all rewired, I have asked neighbours if the have an inspection report like I have and no one seems to have got one only me.

 

[Leesparkykent]

What's the problem then? Are you trying to stop them from doing the work or something?

 

[lilly123]

No I am not stopping them, I have just asked if any one can tell me exactly what a neon boiler is and what the report is saying ie live-live, also why would I have underfloor wiring when I have water pipes under the floors? They stated that my brass effect switches and sockets were not earthed but I have taken a picture of the inside and they are earthed correct and secure.

 

[Leesparkykent]

No I am not stopping them, I have just asked if any one can tell me exactly what a neon boiler is and what the report is saying ie live-live, also why would I have underfloor wiring when I have water pipes under the floors? They stated that my brass effect switches and sockets were not earthed but I have taken a picture of the inside and they are earthed correct and secure.

what heats your hot water?

 

[gutterball]

The cables to the sockets will run under the floor. how is your house and water heated? do you have an immersion heater? this is probably the boiler in the report.

 

[gutterball]

How long did they take inspecting and testing your house. If it's a load of houses on the same street I'm willing to bet half the report is copied from house to house.

 

[lilly123]

The whole estate as it is called has communial heating and hot water, this comes from a boiler house which is around the corner, it is just pipes that go through the property's, there is no emmersion heaters. The lady next door to me who has brought her house can not have separate heating or water supply because re pipes that go through her house feeds mine and so on.

 

[lilly123]

My Inspection took 4 hours.

 

[Leesparkykent]

District heating then. Your guess is as good as any of ours what "neon boiler" means. As gutterball suggested you may have cabling under the floor. And as for your sockets being earthed, you maybe able to physically see the earths in the back of the sockets but doesn't necessarily mean there isn't a fault/disconnection, etc.

 

[lilly123]

I have to go for a while now, but I appreciate all those that have answered me and I will pop back later to see if there are any more.as I need to try to get answers before I tackle the company Monday.

 

[Leesparkykent]

I have to go for a while now, but I appreciate all those that have answered me and I will pop back later to see if there are any more.as I need to try to get answers before I tackle the company Monday.

I don't understand why you want to tackle the company? The council own the property, the council/council appointed contractor carried out the inspection and the council want to rewire the property and others bringing them up to current standards.

 

[Richard Burns]

The cannot check underfloor wiring means that the wiring that is under the floor cannot be checked as it would involve lifting the floors, which is not the intention of the inspection.

The neon boiler high reading on live-live has no meaning so i would discount this from consideration.
If it is a true observation then it should have a reference to another part of the document to provide specific values for this observation, if there is no reference then that observation is invalid as it must have a justification for the code.

 

[R G]

The council is the customer not you , suggest the council follows this up if they want to , the report you have may be intended for the council , suggest you contact them and if necessary forward the report to them ...

 

[lilly123]

Totally agree the council is the customer, originally council electricians done the inspection reports, these electricians got the reports wrong and refuse to hand over their reports to the contractors now, as their was illegal things suggested like putting a plug socket in actually In my work tops. So now I am wondering if this independent company are telling porkies as in saying I have under floor wiring that would actually be located with water pipe work that feeds my heating under my floor boards up stairs, and the neon boiler when I have no boiler or emmersion, I shall leave it there now, thank you for all your answers, I now have a electrican here who has just checked my sockets and they are as I thought earthed as should be, see what he says about the rest of the inspection report, thanks once again

 

[dansk]

Is this a genuine op? why does his post have links to shopzilla?

or is it forum software?