Came across this today .......

[magnoliafan89]

Got sent to a house today to remove a supply to a shed down the bottom of the garden...maybe 20m away from board. Went out the 32a breaker in 6mm t and e jointed under a floorboard to 2.5mm armoured,down a wall to the outside and then under the garden. Entered the shed through a drilled hole and the earth into the banjo is just wedged into the hole.
4 double sockets lighting circuit and not sure what the 16a inside was for. But there was a pond powered off it whether that was the plugged in or the 16a.
As you can imagine she wasnt best pleased when we told her we were disconnecting it and it had to go.

 

[newbie1980]

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Mate, don't want to sound like a School Teacher, but your last post is very hard to understand, lack of punctuation makes it very hard to determine, what has been done, does this customer of your's give you much work? if no, then I would be inclined to walk, as all they are asking for is a replacement CB, hardly worth the bother in my book anyway.
The company in question, looks to me like they are employing robots to do the charging point install, asking for bonding etc, only goes to make .ny point a valid one.
You have to ask yourself, with all the work they require to be done before they turn up, do they know what they are doing, with your input to the installation, how will they be able to certify this install, like I said, if there is not much in it for you, then leave it alone, that's my opinion, others may disagree.

It’s for the boss off a customer whom I do lots off work for.
I was hesitant why they cannot do the other works. And like you say they seem to be robots not electricians. I have the same with cooker installers from major retailers who are really just delivery boys who have been told it’s gotta be this way or refuse to install.
They have asked me to also do other works there at the property to feed a faulty pond and lighting with power they can put on a timer.
The property is a £2m manor and by looks of it the boss has had anyone do the works.
I have insisted if I do it I do it properly even if that means he has to have two patios lifting if I cannot find the existing swa run to the pond
Or it’s not the correct sizing.

 

[Pete999]

That's probably the reason his Gaff is worth 2 mil, if he gets every Bob the Builder doing carp jobs for him.

 

[telectrix]

That's probably the reason his Gaff is worth 2 mil, if he gets every Bob the Builder doing carp jobs for him.

pete, your cynicism is justified, but The Force is receiving negative waves. my beer is trembling from the aftershock.

 

[Pete999]

pete, your cynicism is justified, but The Force is receiving negative waves. my beer is trembling from the aftershock.

The young Jedi, has been sold a dud from the Dark side, me thinks Ob1.

 

[newbie1980]

That's probably the reason his Gaff is worth 2 mil, if he gets every Bob the Builder doing carp jobs for him.

yep but theres no way i will allow my name on anything thast not done properly

 

[Pete999]

yep but theres no way i will allow my name on anything thast not done properly

Good for you Mate

 

[Toneyz]

Got sent to a house today to remove a supply to a shed down the bottom of the garden...maybe 20m away from board. Went out the 32a breaker in 6mm t and e jointed under a floorboard to 2.5mm armoured,down a wall to the outside and then under the garden. Entered the shed through a drilled hole and the earth into the banjo is just wedged into the hole.
4 double sockets lighting circuit and not sure what the 16a inside was for. But there was a pond powered off it whether that was the plugged in or the 16a.
As you can imagine she wasnt best pleased when we told her we were disconnecting it and it had to go.

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[Toneyz]

This happens a lot especially in commercial jobs where specialist contractors come in to install items of equipment they will give you power rating and say they want an isolator at a certain position fed from a specified protective device, for example, a BMS panel lift supplies is another where they want the electrical contractor to do lift shaft lighting and power and a rotary isolator for the lift. In Newbie1980 case they specified an unused protective device in the local consumer unit.Their installers are only trained and insured to install a single circuit from a device to the equipment the company involved have sent out someone prior installation the existing is safe to install their equipment to ie complies with BS7671.