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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:

 

[telectrix]

Ok lah.......

leave my brothers out of it. they're all doing time as it is.

 

[Darkwood]

Remember guys we are in the public arena, such video uploads are thus a tad too much on the expletive side, the Arms maybe but not in the general forum please!

 

[Billsays]

Remember guys we are in the public arena, such video uploads are thus a tad too much on the expletive side, the Arms maybe but not in the general forum please!

Sorry D it was only grabbed from YouTube. Didn't mean to offend.

 

[Andy78]

Did a rewire last week after a customer called with some concerns brought up by other trades. They had owned and lived in the property for about 6 months and were aware that the last owner was an enthusiastic DIYer who had lived there for decades and proudly claimed ownership of all the electrical alterations done over the years.

Some of this is probably the oldest gear still in service I have removed from a domestic property.
Anyone got a good guess on age of the Wooden unit ? Was fed in VIR tails and circuits were in TRS twin with fused neutrals. This install also featured VIR twin which I had not seen before.

Highlights included:

• Vir in service on all lighting circuits with no cpc. Metal switches fitted extensively. Exposed conductors present in some due to cracked rubber insulation.
• Loose connections at a recently altered socket causing damaged socket and loss of cpc for rest of circuit
• Upstairs sockets fed in rubber twin. Cpcs nicked off a lead pipe.
• Fused neutrals on all upstairs sockets
• cpcs cut out on all recent lighting wiring
• One RCD present on one despite at least 4 circuits being altered in the last few years, 3 featuring sockets. The RCD did not trip under testing.
• Bell wire used at switches
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[Richard Burns]

Nice one!!
At least you have bonding to the gas!
Must be about 1950's for the wooden box or at least the squared fuses.
How do people manage not to die?

 

[Andy78]

Nice one!!
At least you have bonding to the gas!
Must be about 1950's for the wooden box or at least the squared fuses.
How do people manage not to die?

Bonding was in to the water too surprisingly.

It was the metal switches with cracked conductor insulation and no cpc that scared me most. The family had been lucky. They said they had replaced the fuse wire a few times in the last 6 months due to it blowing.

 

[DPG]

Nice iron GEC switch fuse. Love the amount of cables coming out of the Henley blocks as well!

 

[Andy78]

Nice iron GEC switch fuse. Love the amount of cables coming out of the Henley blocks as well!

Yeah I've kept that and the wooden unit to have a nosey at when I'm less busy.

There's only one block now, lot tidier.

 

[JK-Electrical]

Just as it is illegal put a vehicle on the road without it having a current MOT certificate, has the time arrived for it to also be illegal to put a house on the market without a recent satisfactory Electrical Installation Condition Report?

Given that there are few homeowners who ever bother to have their installations inspected and tested every 10 years as recommended, should they not be required by law to maintain their installations in a safe condition, or, at the very least, be compelled to have an EICR carried-out on their property before they can legally sell it?

 

[Toneyz]

Just as it is illegal put a vehicle on the road without it having a current MOT certificate, has the time arrived for it to also be illegal to put a house on the market without a recent satisfactory Electrical Installation Condition Report?

Given that there are few homeowners who ever bother to have their installations inspected and tested every 10 years as recommended, should they not be required by law to maintain their installations in a safe condition, or, at the very least, be compelled to have an EICR carried-out on their property before they can legally sell it?

All home insurance companies need to do is make it part of the policies.

 

[JK-Electrical]

All home insurance companies need to do is make it part of the policies.

I think it's inevitable at some future point, probably sooner rather than later.

 

[davesparks]

Just as it is illegal put a vehicle on the road without it having a current MOT certificate, has the time arrived for it to also be illegal to put a house on the market without a recent satisfactory Electrical Installation Condition Report?

Given that there are few homeowners who ever bother to have their installations inspected and tested every 10 years as recommended, should they not be required by law to maintain their installations in a safe condition, or, at the very least, be compelled to have an EICR carried-out on their property before they can legally sell it?

You can't make it a legal requirement to have an eicr carried out because the eicr is a part of a non-statutory standard.
The first step in this process would be to make the wiring regulations a legal requirement, which is a pretty tall order now.

 

[davesparks]

All home insurance companies need to do is make it part of the policies.

This point was raised in one of the reference books I've got, it was published in the late 1930's so don't hold your breath for anything actually happening in our lifetimes!

 

[sweet212]

Dead short N-E on cooker circuit. Found this beauty.

 

[Andy78]

So you'll be repairing it in the same fashion as the repair lower down the cable and re-burying it ?