Advise/ Opinions

[AndrewII]

I was recently asked to complete a PIR at a Public house quite local to me. A few months ago the wiring in the restaurant that is attached to the PH developed a fault. The restaurant has a fairly new 17th Edition fuseboard fitted. <br>This D/B used to be fed from a fuseboard at the mains position via a 63amp MCB. The main switch for this fuseboard is a 100mA RCD (It's a TT earthing arrangement).<br>The Landlady called a local Electrician in to sort something out, the fault in the Restaurant was taking the 100mA RCD out in the main fuseboard; this in turn was affecting circuits within the Pub itslef. <br>The Pub has it's own D/B behind the bar, this was also supplied from the main D/B via a 63amp MCB.&nbsp;What the Electrican did was simply remove the supply to the&nbsp;Pub D/B from the main D/B and installed (via D/P blocks) a new 63amp D/P Isolator within an enclosure&nbsp;to supply this D/B; In a nutshell he's removed what RCD protection the Pub D/B had (albeit 100mA).<br>This guy gave the Landlady no form of certification, also the L+N tails enter the enclosure through seperate 20mm knockouts (M/C enclosure). There were no blanks fitted to the enclosure (a bit of an IP issue....). The cable leading away from the enclosure (to the Pub D/B) just flaps around, he's even left the empty boxes on site...&nbsp;The cost of the&nbsp;materails came to approx £35.00, he charged the Landlady £750.00.<br>Whilst what the guy did was a quick fix he should (IMHO) have maintained some form of RCD protection, it's a TT install after all. Ze by the way was a fairly respectable 10ohms.<br>Am I right to perhaps put something in writing to this guy, firstly he's ripped off the poor Landlady and secondly what he has done doesn't comply (to say the least).<br>Apologies if this goes on a bit, I just wanted to paint as good a picture as I could. <br>Thanks in advance.<br>

 

[fuzzydunlop]

Advise about what? Can't make head nor tail of what you've written

 

[telectrix]

might be an idea to get the landlady to get trading standards involved. that way she may be able to recover some of the money paid to this cowboy ( assuming all your observations are correct ).

 

[Guest123]

So, the sub-main feeding the pub DB now has no RCD protection, is that what you're saying???

 

[telectrix]

sounds like it, when you cut through the trees to see the wood.

 

[Knobhead]

Can you rewrite that in some semblance of order please. Punctuation would help.

 

[alli]

As you didn't employ the previous sparks to do the work then I would say it was not your buisness to contact him directly, even though you would probably like to give him a talking too. You have been employed by the Landlady to produce a PIR, and I would suggest that she uses this as ammunition against the previous sparks or as Telectrix say goes to trading standards with it, showing the validity of her complaint.