Consumers Units

[Pete999]

During a beer induced sleepless night, I began thinking about some of the pictures I had seen earlier on a different Forum, some were very tidy and some not. It got me thinking, how many of you guys cable tie the conductors together when connecting up the CU? not for me, but that's my choice.

The second thought is how many of you actually carry out dead tests prior to connecting up the CU? to avoid screwing up the nice tidy conductor dressing.

Thirdly I saw one unit with pictograms instead of actually writing on the unit, you know a picture of a lamp for lighting, a cooker for cooker circuit, I'd like to get some can anyone send me a link? or can you get them at the wholesalers?

 

[imago]

No ones mentioned messy work methods. As long as a job is neat and the next guy along can see whats what to test. Just makes me wonder when you see these dbs with every conductor exactly the same length and every thing cable tied together.

When I do them either as part of a rewire or a stand alone job I always do the faffing about tidying things making them symmetrical, putting the same bends in, labelling stuff etc for several reasons.

Firstly, I can afford the time to do it because I've priced the time taken into the job. Secondly I get greater satisfaction from doing it that way, and thirdly no one who opens up the board after me will find fault with what I've done. They may well do things in a different way or order, but it won't be 'better'.

I refuse to compete on price as it's a race to the bottom and drags standards down, but I'll happily compete on workmanship as that's a race to the top which drags standards up.

 

[Amp David]

Thats all fine mate. Dont remember mentioning competing on price in any of my posts, or finding fault with how others do things.

Dont know where you boys get the idea from that anything that we do is a slap dash job.

Wish the world for as perfect as it is on Electricians Forums, it'd be super dooper

 

[elliot123]

I see it as anyone that comes to work on the job/fuse board later after I've done it if it's messy people will think "I hate to see what the rest of the jobs like" but that's just what I was taught, having a neat fuse board doesn't take long to do unless you want it extremely neat, but when Ever I do one or even a fuse board change I try my hardest to make it neat but maybe different if I didn't work for some one

 

[imago]

Thats all fine mate. Dont remember mentioning competing on price in any of my posts, or finding fault with how others do things.

Dont know where you boys get the idea from that anything that we do is a slap dash job.

Wish the world for as perfect as it is on Electricians Forums, it'd be super dooper

I wasn't suggesting that you do bad work. I was answering your post "These guys who have time to make there cu's so theres not a cable out of place either work for someone else or don't mind spinning the job out" to explain why I do all the messing about.