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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:

 

[Raptor0014]

What about the shed one that looks like it's been cooked ?

It’s not. It’s just dirty. I thought it had too when I first looked at it. But there’s only a light and unused socket in the shed.

I replaced the faulty MCB and had a look at the others. Rest are fine.

 

[mainline]

It’s not. It’s just dirty. I thought it had too when I first looked at it. But there’s only a light and unused socket in the shed.

I replaced the faulty MCB and had a look at the others. Rest are fine.

From the pic, it looks like it has a piece missing out of the bottom.

 

[Raptor0014]

From the pic, it looks like it has a piece missing out of the bottom.

Indeed it does. Never noticed that earlier . I’m going back tomorrow as didn’t have a fused spur on the van. So will replace it and then get myself an eye test.

 

[mainline]

Had a call Saturday afternoon just as I was about to go home from a friend of mine saying that he's lost power to his boiler and outbuilding /Sun room.
He tells me that he's checked at the CU for anything tripped and also checked the fuse in FCU at the boiler.

I ask if he's got any sort of multimeter etc, he says no (although this fella is a mobile locksmith and I would have expected him to have something).

After being on the phone for 20 mins and him having the lid off the Cu it's decided that I go and look as he's got his freezer in the outbuilding and also some pump in a tank that's not working either.

Problem for me is that he lives well into the country, and it's almost a 100-mile round trip on a lot of single country lanes.
I debate whether to go home and take the car and also risk having to tell the missus face to face that we won't be going into town or to go now in the van.

The telling the missus face to face was the deciding factor in not taking the car.

So after a Text message to her indoors, off I set.
Slow progress it seems like every farmer in their tractors are out and about, but after a quick stop at a fuel station that sells Costa coffee and Cornish pasties I'm not feeling too bad.

On the way, brain is ticking over thinking what it could be as I've asked him things like is it a Swa cable to the out building etc.

Half way there I get a text from him with very accurate directions as he says the sat nav may get it wrong OK, no prob.

After a little while, I look at the sat nav, and it says 10 miles to go.

Then the dreaded happens he phones me I think I've found the problem, a fuse has gone in a Fcu a 5amp one it was in the airing cupboard upstairs.
I say it can't be that because you said the outbuilding is dead he said I haven't replaced the fuse yet, but it's definitely gone as I put it in another FCU for the cooker hood to try it and the hood doesnt work with that fuse.

Ok well I'm almost there now.

Get there Straight to the Cu split load neatly done, all good 16 amp MCB feed to heating boiler fine.
Boiler FCU which is in airing cupboard fuse blown.

I said what happened when the power went, he says it went when I plugged a hoover in the outbuilding.

Ok to the outbuilding we go Clock the isolator on the wall 1.5 swa feeding a pump for some tank (septic I think but wasn't interested)

In the outbuilding, CU Swa feed in is 2.5 Swa RCD /16 amp / 6 amp Feed is dead.

2 DBL sockets and a few LED lights

Where does it get the feed from, I ask ? From the pump, he says.

Where does the pump get its supply from because there is no Swa out of the CU.

Don't know, he says,

Who connected the Outbuilding ? Electrician I paid him cash, and he connected to the 1.5 swa ? yes, he said, not knowing where that supply was from ? Yes.

Turns out the original owner connected the pump off the boiler supply to the tank pump.

So the 5 amp Fcu feeds boiler, pump, and a fair sized outbuilding.

I put a 13amp fuse in the FCU and told him I'm off home.

Still, it was better than going shopping.

 

[Raptor0014]

Main earth conductor not able to fit into earth terminal bar? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Just chop a few strands of the conductor off!

 

[Raptor0014]

Done an EICR this morning. Easy job as it was a 1 bed apartment and when I left everything was working. Left just after 1315hrs and then I received the below message from the landlord. As I wasn’t far away I thought I’d go back and check incase something had tripped. You can see my reply.

You gotta love plumbers.

 

[pirate]

Not sure about prevention of premature collapse in the event of fire...but it's easy to trace the cables as they are colour-coded...
Oh, wait...

 

[Aaron b]

I'm not sure it this is what the manufacturer intended.

 

[mainline]

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I'm not sure it this is what the manufacturer intended.

It's for permanent visual inspection

 

[timhoward]

Hmmm for a few reasons!

 

[James]

Strange, looks like maybe they were trying for a TT supply to garage but have failed on many points

 

[freddo]

Hmmm for a few reasons!

That's quite a poor attempt!

 

[mainline]

Client has had kitchen taken out and wants a few electrical bits done, shouldn't be too bad as had an eicr last month, all lovely.

 

[Raptor0014]

Who did the EICR, Stevie Wonder? Or was it a drive by EICR, a bit like American paperboys were they throw the Cert at your door?

 

[James]

Who did the EICR, Stevie Wonder? Or was it a drive by EICR, a bit like American paperboys were they throw the Cert at your door?

I am presuming the parts we are looking at were hidden behind kitchen furniture and appliances.