Alterations on old rewireable consumer unit

[Noob2013]

A friend has asked me to install a couple of extra sockets in there kitchen.

The consumer unit is an old Wylex with rewireable fuses so there is no RCD protection.

Would you carry out the work and recommend a new consumer unit/upfront RCD or would you not do the work unless they agree to have the extra work carried out aswell?

Some people are too tight or unable to afford the extra work so can't make them do it.

Cheers

 

[ruston]

obviously then a metalclad socket with SWA glanded in via a 20mm galv. coupler on the tiles of their £10,000 designer kitchen.

Then they would all want one.
Next would be pallet board walls and pyro.

 

[davesparks]

There's nowt wrong with a bit of bare pyro. In fact it can look pretty damned good if you give it a bit of thought.

 

[Dave OCD]

There's nowt wrong with a bit of bare pyro. In fact it can look pretty damned good if you give it a bit of thought.

As long as you don't go too mad on the bending and snap the copper sheath eh Dave.

 

[DPG]

Brill

 

[ruston]

I love stuff like that, ships clocks , boiler rooms etc. I know - I am sad

 

[Andy78]

obviously then a metalclad socket with SWA glanded in via a 20mm galv. coupler on the tiles of their £10,000 designer kitchen.

Well it wasn't a £10,000 designer kitchen, but a customer did ask me to change all their kitchen sockets for surface mounted metal clad ones. I also installed them a surface mount steel conduit lighting system with matching switch drops, completed with twisted cloth flex drops.
No shades installed on the brass lamp holders yet though. She is waiting to amass enough Victorian copper jelly moulds until she asks me to drill them out and mount them.

Not quite to my personal taste but the customer could not have been happier. I even got a bottle of wine and some cake when I went to drop off the invoice.

 

[Leesparkykent]

Regarding the freezer socket you could label it and wire the circuit in bs8436 cable to omit rcd protection.

 

[Octopus]

Regarding the freezer socket you could label it and wire the circuit in T&E on the surface or in trunking to omit rcd protection.

Corrected that for you! lol

 

[Dave OCD]

Or chase in steel conduit, earthed of course.

 

[Leesparkykent]

Corrected that for you! lol

Lol I think that would complement the 30K kitchen just lovely

 

[Dave OCD]

Talking of kitchens only last week I was in an empty recently purchased bungalow where the plumber was also the 'kitchen fitter'- the idiot had siliconed the hob down to a corian worktop which cost £3k - before I'd connected the 4mm HO7 flex !! Just can't get to the terminal cover and connections on the back corner from below so he's gong to have to take the hob out, customer terrified that the worktop will be damaged but I'm not attempting it.

 

[ruston]

Talking of kitchens only last week I was in an empty recently purchased bungalow where the plumber was also the 'kitchen fitter'- the idiot had siliconed the hob down to a corian worktop which cost £3k - before I'd connected the 4mm HO7 flex !! Just can't get to the terminal cover and connections on the back corner from below so he's gong to have to take the hob out, customer terrified that the worktop will be damaged but I'm not attempting it.

That is just stupidity personified .
How could anyone be so stupid.

 

[Dave OCD]

That is just stupidity personified .
How could anyone be so stupid.

Yeah the muppet never seems to be around when I'm there, he also cut off the main water bond behind the sink so I had to chase out and get enough slack to fit a 10mm through crimp, and he told the customer that fitting the new shower to the wall in the shower room is my job even though he still has to put the existing pipe flush in the wall and it all has to be tiled yet, a real cretin !

 

[ruston]

Yeah the muppet never seems to be around when I'm there, he also cut off the main water bond behind the sink so I had to chase out and get enough slack to fit a 10mm through crimp, and he told the customer that fitting the new shower to the wall in the shower room is my job even though he still has to put the existing pipe flush in the wall and it all has to be tiled yet, a real cretin !

Fun to be had there then . Good luck with that one.

 

[Dave OCD]

It's a nightmare, the poor woman regrets employing him but also tried blaming me for not connecting the hob 'in advance' - until I explained I couldn't until the worktop was actually 'on site'. :smile5: