Electrician has cut holes to close to joist ends

[JazzyB]

Hi

Employed electrician to wire extra sockets in bedrooms upstairs in an empty house. However I have noticed when I lifted floor board up to do other work, that the cables are running through holes close to ends of the joists, not within the safe zones, .25 & .4, as with Building Regs.

Looking for advise on how to approach this, with them.

Thanks
Jazz

 

[UNG]

The analysis carried out by a qualified Structural Engineer that qualified the zones specified where established for a reason, taking into account the compression and tension zones within the timber and the shear zones at the bearing end, a Structural Engineer would not dream of telling an Electrician how to do his job.....................................

For structural engineer read overkill merchant over the years the ones I've come across have such a high overhead on their calcs the likelyhood of anything happening even in an earthquake is minimal

 

[GBDamo]

The analysis carried out by a qualified Structural Engineer that qualified the zones specified where established for a reason, taking into account the compression and tension zones within the timber and the shear zones at the bearing end, a Structural Engineer would not dream of telling an Electrician how to do his job.....................................

Id argue the reason was to prescribe a place where notches should be made rather than to say where holes couldn't be made.

 

[LukeD]

Is there not another set of holes about 2 inches further into the joists ? Looks like there are