M
MRES
Well once again I have stumbled upon a absolutely shocking piece of electrical installation work. Why me I asked myself once again ?
Today I went to a house to first fix a kitchen for a kitchen installation company I have as a client. Upon thinking I had isolated the power to the kitchen ring main and cooker I find that I have 230V neutral to earth on both circuits ! Initial thought was a back feed or a shared neutral. Upon isolating every circuit in the consumer I still had 230V neutral to earth ! After removing the cover of the new 17th edition consumer unit I discovered the BRIGHT SPARK electrician had connected the live tail from the meter into the NEUTRAL terminal on the switch disconnector and the neutral tail into the LIVE terminal !! FOOKING HELL I said to myself. Then I discovered 3 cables terminated into a 6 amp MCB and another 3 terminsted into a 10 amp MCB, also there were cables extended using throu crimps OUTSIDE of the board ! Some circuits had excess copper showing over 10mm were terminated into the MCB`s. Apparently the consumer had been replaced 3 months ago by an electrician who works for the company who built the extension.
I informed the house owner of the problems and she instantly got onto the phone to the builder who showed up within 15mins.
He agreed that the work was ****E and extremely dangerous. He could not get around the fact that the electrician had issued him with a certificate complete with test results for an installation with reversed polarity !!!
All this said the electrician has once again dissapeared into thin air and I have been asked to put the work right which entails a new 15 way consumer, new tails and bonding. I will gain a tidy sum out of it and a 10 way high integ board for free. What is more the builder has issued me drawings for 4 new build properties and would like a quote issueing for next friday !!
I have not seen the test certificate however I don`t believe one has been issued as it should be in the hands of the customer not the builder. Unless the customer has not yet paid up ? I will be posing that question tomoro.
I will tread carefully with this builder as somethings don`t add up.
I am sick and tired of coming across work to such a sub standard and it is my thought that after 3 years of part p it is not working neither is the government trustmark scheme. People just dont know about the scheme`s.
I am sick of been undercut by fly by night electricians and getting phone calls saying can you sort this ?
I am sick of people expecting rewires done to 17th edition standards for ÂŁ700 because bob from down the rose and crown says he can do it for that much.
Yes you guest it, I am sick as a parrot and I am going to go to A&E.
Today I went to a house to first fix a kitchen for a kitchen installation company I have as a client. Upon thinking I had isolated the power to the kitchen ring main and cooker I find that I have 230V neutral to earth on both circuits ! Initial thought was a back feed or a shared neutral. Upon isolating every circuit in the consumer I still had 230V neutral to earth ! After removing the cover of the new 17th edition consumer unit I discovered the BRIGHT SPARK electrician had connected the live tail from the meter into the NEUTRAL terminal on the switch disconnector and the neutral tail into the LIVE terminal !! FOOKING HELL I said to myself. Then I discovered 3 cables terminated into a 6 amp MCB and another 3 terminsted into a 10 amp MCB, also there were cables extended using throu crimps OUTSIDE of the board ! Some circuits had excess copper showing over 10mm were terminated into the MCB`s. Apparently the consumer had been replaced 3 months ago by an electrician who works for the company who built the extension.
I informed the house owner of the problems and she instantly got onto the phone to the builder who showed up within 15mins.
He agreed that the work was ****E and extremely dangerous. He could not get around the fact that the electrician had issued him with a certificate complete with test results for an installation with reversed polarity !!!
All this said the electrician has once again dissapeared into thin air and I have been asked to put the work right which entails a new 15 way consumer, new tails and bonding. I will gain a tidy sum out of it and a 10 way high integ board for free. What is more the builder has issued me drawings for 4 new build properties and would like a quote issueing for next friday !!
I have not seen the test certificate however I don`t believe one has been issued as it should be in the hands of the customer not the builder. Unless the customer has not yet paid up ? I will be posing that question tomoro.
I will tread carefully with this builder as somethings don`t add up.
I am sick and tired of coming across work to such a sub standard and it is my thought that after 3 years of part p it is not working neither is the government trustmark scheme. People just dont know about the scheme`s.
I am sick of been undercut by fly by night electricians and getting phone calls saying can you sort this ?
I am sick of people expecting rewires done to 17th edition standards for ÂŁ700 because bob from down the rose and crown says he can do it for that much.
Yes you guest it, I am sick as a parrot and I am going to go to A&E.
