Does this conform to Building Regs

[needasparks]

I think you will find it will be a floating floor with hard insulation laid first with the flooring laid on top which if it is true what your builders are saying will still crush the cables as unless protection of some manner is fitted beforehand damage will occur later.
Have you checked the electrical installer is the person who is signing the job off at the end ? And not just someone else looking at the end what the builder has done.
You should really at this stage make sure you know who is doing what. Getting the building inspector more involved is a good idea of Tony's as they really are on your side to make sure it's done correctly.

 

[PC Electrics]

Trouble is most BCOs are not electricians and won't know.

I'd bet that there's gonna be a layer of Kingspan (or similar) then 4 inch of concrete. Almost no-one has a wood suspended floor these days - simply too expensive.

There's no 'zone' where the cables enter the room
on the left side of the pic, the cables are slightly up off the sand - the weight of the floor will pull those cables down, possibly damaging them.

There are many ways to skin a cat: there is nothing wrong with going horizontally from socket to socket (though I'd avoid long runs especially on walls likely to have rads). Any cables in the floor should be run around the edge where they won't be subject to the weight of the floor and they should be protected from direct contact with the concrete.
If the insulation is going to be polystyrene, then cables should be protected from contact with that too.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Look at it this way:

1) A bunch of guy’s on the Net say this is crap, or…..
2) The Building Inspector say’s this is crap…..

Which carries more weight?

or

3) A 6 tonne concrete slab.

?

 

[Silly Sausage]

Apparently the builders are not concreting or screeding ontop of the cable but they are installing a suspended floor.

But if they install a suspended floor shouldn't the cable be run and attached along the wood work?

If that is the case and there will be a void above the cable there's nowt wrong with it (see App 4 Red OSG)...apart from where it comes out of the house and it looks a bit stretched as others have already said.

Still a bit urine poor.

 

[stamati76]

If that is the case and there will be a void above the cable there's nowt wrong with it (see App 4 Red OSG)...apart from where it comes out of the house and it looks a bit stretched as others have already said.

Still a bit urine poor.

How should they have wired it coming out of the house? I have to send an email to explain to the building company what i think is wrong.

 

[Graeme Harrold]

If its off the back of a socket as a spur, then it needs to be fused down to 13A...as long as that socket is not a spur itself!

 

[Engineer54]

If its off the back of a socket as a spur, then it needs to be fused down to 13A...as long as that socket is not a spur itself!

Think you need to take a closer look at the photo, It looks to me as if the electrician is ''extending'' the ring, not spurring off the ring...

 

[Graeme Harrold]

With the work on display, prob have a ring coming off of a spur....

After wading through 5 pages, forgot what the original pic was....will have another look

 

[jase]

You have had enough good advise about the work,now your turn

It is your responsibility for the work to abide by building regs and the procedures for doing so

Have you enquired if the electrician belongs to a scheme where self certification by that spark can mitigate your responsibility?
or have building control been informed that the work needs to be tested and inspected



Dependant on whether full plans approval has been gained and incorporates the electrical work,fees for the electrical inspection will need paying for that inspection
Be warned,if inspection was required and the cable is not visible for that inspection,the routing would have to be exposed to allow that inspection to go ahead
It would be a shame if near completion the building inspector asked for this to be made available

this work would not necessarily be notifiable work thought would it? if all you are doing is adding extra sockets on to a circuit not in a special location, so if this is an extension of the downstairs ring or a fused down radial of a 13 amp spur from the living room then non-notifaiable, still doesnt excuse crap work, but might go a way to explain how this bodger is not scam registered if that is the case.

 

[Guest111]

either way you look at it its raf why not go the whole hog and run it round the outside in a bit of garden hose lol

 

[telectrix]

now why didn't i think of that

 

[stamati76]

So after 6 pages

... It conforms or not??

 

[telectrix]

even after 6 pages, it's still crap.

 

[stamati76]

Yeh right, so basically it conforms but it just looks crap?!!

 

[telectrix]

comforms to what? not the wiring regs. to be sure.