Bad Workmanship

[bugsy]

Padi do

 

[nervouselk]

I was connecting earth cable to block on incoming, and there was a lot of sparking coming from tails at supply, informed supply company who came out promptly. the guy who fittied the meter before had not screwed the tails up. It seem like they have there own rules and regs and get away with it.

Also i have had crossed tails, so a spark just crossed the tails over again in the cu to make the wrong a right. How do these people get away with this, i mean the so called sparkies and meter fitters.

 

[lewrssll]

hi guys, im new here. cant tell you where i work but we had a foreigner do some work for the company. I asked him to install an mechanical isolator and all was ok. The company then decided to upgrade aa bit of kit and was infact a heater 11.5kw 3 phase and when I went to disconnect the isolator, I found the guy had put the 3 phase into his 3 phase and actually bypassed the interlock not only was this good enough, he put the earth screen and neutral together...seemingly in NZ under AU:3001-NZ this is common practice.....thats the worst I have seen...

 

[uksel]

welcome lew

 

[lewrssll]

hi buddy, and thanks. I logged on to this site last night. had a little query regarding x5 test etc on rcd testing/inspection. and this site had popped up in a google search. was really helpful then spent the next hour reading over other topics!! good site BTW.

at the moment i have svq level 3+4 in electrical engineering, hnc electronics with 17th edition.

im a maintenance engineer so work frequently with 3 phase and not so much on normal 230v

 

[d_sparks]

I did a job recently which was a conversion into flats. All was going well, builder liked the price, we were out on time, no comebacks, all NIC certs in. When we asked the builder when we could start the last flat ( price already accepted), we were told the agent had got one of his mates to do it. When we looked it was nothing like the spec we were following, Panda replaced MK, cable zones anywhere you like( in with hot pipes ), littered with faults and comebacks, Ive never seen so many 6.0mm earth wires, all over the shop...... dont know what to bond?... Bond it all. The company that did it were suposedly NIC. When I asked around,suprise suprise! Our Eastern friends again. Still they managed to shave 25% off our price. But they re- spent that and more on comeback calls. Glad to see I'm not the only one who's p***** off with them and wishes they'd go home to burn down houses there not here. The NIC should have spot checks at first fix stage to see who's really ballsing thses jobs up and covering it with plaster.