Does This Installation Look Correct?

[PoppyAnn]

How far?

The rule of thumb is 3m…. But it looks like it’s on a different floor, never mind a different room.

If I remember, before last weeks posts were lost, someone mentioned the clamp was wrong for the incoming cable.

My own bug bear is writing on the breakers… no need.

Why no need to writing on the breakers? I normally use a lable machine printing on heat shrink tubing to slip over all cables/wires along with printed lables on the cover, I use to wire up control boards for machines and I use to hate it when I went out on a breakdown and there was just a bundle of red "or any other colour" wires in the control box i use to try and get the customer to let me do a full rewire on most machines it would be quicker to do a full rewire than to try to work out which wire controled which function if they agreed to the full rewire I would use 25 core cable which had the wire number printed along each wire and would supply a 2 or 3 wiring diagrams when finished, it made it much easier for people in the future to fault find.

 

[littlespark]

Marking the cables, yes…. Marking the individual circuit breakers I don’t like. Just a personal opinion.

Sometimes it covers the information needed when performing an EICR.
Sometimes the breaker doesn’t match what’s on the front panel or circuit chart because some previous work has swapped around where the circuits sit.

In the OPs photos… we can see an empty 6A second from left. The breaker is marked as lights, but because he had the neutral problem and doubled up into the next breaker… the cover says blank. So the breaker now has lights written on it, but it doesn’t serve any circuit.

Like I say, it’s just a personal opinion… no regulation states it.

 

[DefyG]

I tend to write the circuit number on the mcb say every 5th mcb/rcbo just to help make it easier to locate in a large multi way or 3ph board rather than count from the right, left or up and down each time, but not the actual circuit name.