BG Incompetence strikes again

[Octopus]

Got called out yesterday, wife's friend has no power (since Thursday night) and their 2nd BG call for Saturday had been cancelled and re-scheduled for Sunday

Family of 5, no power

So I turn up to find they have 1 extension lead running the fridge freezer from their neighbour .............

So a quick visual :

3 year old metal clad board with RCD main switch
3 circuits (sockets, central heating and lights)

A quick set of tests

dead short on N-E on the lighting circuit, so with the customers agreement I disconnected the lighting and left them with sockets and central heating.

What I want to know is why the BG muppet who attended site on Thursday couldn't do what I did?

And why the loft conversion company thought it was acceptable to extend the existing socket and lights to incorporate the loft conversion AND think a RCD main switch was a good idea ......

I despair

 

[Squid]

My sister,Dolly,makes the most wonderful cucumber sandwiches...

Don't know why the first thought was to search XHamster for Dolly with a Cucumber..........

 

[telectrix]

Don't know why the first thought was to search XHamster for Dolly with a Cucumber..........

pervert. .

 

[Squid]

pervert. I'll ping you my email and you can send me the links, but keep it quiet don't want everyone to know. .

Okay......

 

[davesparks]

this got me thinking about DP MCBs. is there a good reason why MCBs here aren't DP, as in many other countries?

Because there has never been a need for them in this country since the standardisation of our electricity supplies and the supply neutral being reliably connected to earth at substations.
Other countries have various reasons for the neutral (or second line in some cases) to be disconnected.