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[Darkwood]

Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.



I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. mg_smile:

 

[Mike Johnson]

How many different ways can we all say the same thing, sincerest form of flattery (Oscar Wilde)

 

[Moley]

What's wrong with cutting the cable, re-join with a 1 amp choc block and wrap in sellotape?

 

[Raptor0014]

What's wrong with cutting the cable, re-join with a 1 amp choc block and wrap in sellotape?

Low tack masking tape is better. Makes it easier to get into if repairs are needed.

Always thinking of the next bloke.

 

[brianmoooore]

Cut it, connect to the MCB and make it into two rings on the same circuit.

 

[littlespark]

What are you faffing with tape for?
A big blob of blu tac round the choc box

 

[loz2754]

Leave the board in place and mount the new one in front of it

 

[Dustydazzler]

You guys are doing it all wrong

cut the cable using a pair of rough old pliers , mangle the cores by twisting them back together remembering to twist the life out of them so no man can ever get them apart and then wind some black gaffa tape round the lot

Job done

 

[Moley]

cut the cable using a pair of rough old pliers

What's wrong with a scissors?

 

[JBW175]

Had an emergency call out this morning, a builder who’s installing a drain chopped through the SWA supplying the garden shed. Knocked out half the supply to the street, DNO engineer arrived promptly and changed one of the fuses down the sub station. Circuit isolated and power restored.

In the builder’s defence, the cable wasn’t buried the correct depth and was just beneath the slabs, but you can clearly see where the cable enters the ground so he should have checked prior to cutting.

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UPDATE

Just been round to price up repairing this job.

and,

It cost the client an extra days pay with the builder who cut through the cable as he was too traumatised to work for a day…

Bloody builders, You couldn’t make it up.

 

[Raptor0014]

This is in a bathroom of all places. Taping of the CPC was a nice touch.

But allegedly wasn’t a DIY effort….

 

[brianmoooore]

Is the heavily taped up cpc of the blue/brown T&E disappearing into the ceiling being used as a perm. live/switched live to the fan?

 

[Raptor0014]

Is the heavily taped up cpc of the blue/brown T&E disappearing into the ceiling being used as a perm. live/switched live to the fan?

I’ve not untangled it all yet. I’ve got a number of points from this inspection and the list of remedial work keeps growing.

Landlord asked why I was taking light fittings down and sockets off as his last EICR was done in about 30-45 mins and never did any of this, I’ve been here 3hrs so far!

So I showed him this and said ‘that’s why, along with the fact you have a broken leg of a socket ring somewhere, no earth bond to your gas (meter was moved outside around 2yrs ago he said and it appears it’s never been re-bonded) and there is a socket being spurred off the shower so far.

 

[Julie.]

....and there is a socket being spurred off the shower so far.

Sounds pretty poor.

However, open question to everyone, just what exactly would be wrong with taking a socket outlet off the shower circuit (or anything else such as ufh, or similar); if electrically it had the usual stuff right such as rcd, Zs within limits etc.

General question on people's thoughts about this.

 

[DPG]

Sounds pretty poor.

However, open question to everyone, just what exactly would be wrong with taking a socket outlet off the shower circuit (or anything else such as ufh, or similar); if electrically it had the usual stuff right such as rcd, Zs within limits etc.

General question on people's thoughts about this.

It's not unlike a cooker circuit feeding a 13A socket.

 

[Raptor0014]

Sounds pretty poor.

However, open question to everyone, just what exactly would be wrong with taking a socket outlet off the shower circuit (or anything else such as ufh, or similar); if electrically it had the usual stuff right such as rcd, Zs within limits etc.

General question on people's thoughts about this.

You can’t run a 2.5mm spur from a 32A 6mm shower.

Not matter what the Zs is. The cable is only rated at max 27A.

So unless you ran it in 6mm, which would be some effort for a 2g socket then it’s not going to be compliant.