Heating switching on regardless

[SparkyChick]

Nice job

What amazes me is just how bad some of these wiring centres can be, and I'm pretty sure I've not seen the worst. If only the people doing them in the first place realised it would be much easier if they made a nice neat job of it to begin with.

Nice crispy cable too... doesn't it crunch when you try and bend it?

 

[Leesparkykent]

Nice job

What amazes me is just how bad some of these wiring centres can be, and I'm pretty sure I've not seen the worst. If only the people doing them in the first place realised it would be much easier if they made a nice neat job of it to begin with.

Nice crispy cable too... doesn't it crunch when you try and bend it?

That's because most are plumbers attempts.

 

[SparkyChick]

That's because most are plumbers attempts.

I realise that From my limited experience a bad wiring centre usually ties up with a nest of copper pipe that looks a little like your avatar

 

[Leesparkykent]

I realise that From my limited experience a bad wiring centre usually ties up with a nest of copper pipe that looks a little like your avatar

I come across a cylinder stat wired in telephone cable before

 

[SparkyChick]

I come across a cylinder stat wired in telephone cable before

I should really be shocked and horrified by that statement, but for some reason it's like water off a ducks back these days, it just doesn't surprise me in the slightest

 

[Wilko]

Nice crispy cable too... doesn't it crunch when you try and bend it?

The boiler an immersion were running off fcu with 13A fuse using that flex. The flex was stiff and starting to tan, but it hadn't gone crunchy yet. I reckon it was only a matter of time once they turned on the immersion, closed the cupboard and forgot all about it. The new 2.5 will take that all day long if they do it again

 

[EddieB]

I'm not sure if I'm seeing correctly, but in that initial picture of the junction box there seems to be an earth wire connected with the blue and brown, I also have to assume that the blue should also be sleeved.

 

[Wilko]

I'm not sure if I'm seeing correctly, but in that initial picture of the junction box there seems to be an earth wire connected with the blue and brown, I also have to assume that the blue should also be sleeved.

Probably
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