I'm thinking of suing can he go bankrupt?

[OMGAMISTUFFED]

Awful time of a new installation by an idiot! He spent most of his time with his phone attached to his ear held between his shoulder and face!
The "dead man's switch" was put on back to front, so when the door was opened NOTHING got turned off!
He cut off all the earth wires to 240V metal lights at floor level and in window boards (uplights)
No Grommets in Main fuse box, cut out the top of the box in a really jagged way and then attached a bit of tape around the cutout.
Armoured cable left exposed at the ends.
Earth wires twisted together with no sheathing.
Switches with wires going nowhere!
Cables inserted into fuses but not tightened in with the end of the cable running outside and also in one of the cupboards.
Charged me "mates Rates" at £350 a day, arrived at ten, had coffee and a smoke, had lunch at one and buggered off at 2 so he could pick up his kids!
The list goes on....O'h and ran a cable over the joist, only found that one when the plumber had to move the bath slightly and nearly cut through it!
I seriously want to run him over.....Joking...!!!!
Any ideas on how to get him to pay for the work that has had to be carried out by a qualified electrician, we're up to possibly 2- 2.5 grand so far. Everything has had to be checked where it's going to and from....Nothing written on any wiring. Mains box taken off the wall and re-wired.
Can he just go bankrupt and walk away?? GRRRRRRRR.... can you tell I'm not happy...!
Cheers everyone.

 

[OMGAMISTUFFED]

You knew he was unreliable, but still went with him. Despite you having a friend who is an electrician according to your later post.

Something not right here. Or were you just trying to get it done cheap and cheerful?

Not so much cheap and cheerful, but a better price than being ripped off, friend wasn't able to help out at the time, this build has been going on for two years now. When someone says they will give you mates rates you think that your getting a good deal...as they say if it seems too good to be true...I've known him for at least ten years, maybe more, doesn't live near me, so have no idea what his work was like...I do now! Have a look at his work...I'm intrigued to know what you think.

 

[James]

Hi Littlespark, O'h YES I have SO many photographs....and YES I thought he was going to be cheaper than the 60 grand estimate given by one sparks...should have guessed he was useless when he didn't understand my three phase electric and 38 solar panels!!! Not enough power Captain for two ovens, two warming drawers, dishwasher, and hob ...he actually said "I didn't know you were going to have a hob.....WTF!

To be fair, it is important to get the specification down at the beginning of a job.
I would be more than a little peed off if all of a sudden an inductive or other powerful hob was added to the job, it may well screw up many of the calculations i had done for cables, boards, phase balancing etc.

 

[OMGAMISTUFFED]

To be fair, it is important to get the specification down at the beginning of a job.
I would be more than a little peed off if all of a sudden an inductive or other powerful hob was added to the job, it may well screw up many of the calculations i had done for cables, boards, phase balancing etc.

Yes I can understand that but he had all the spec because the kitchen had been bought and was in storage. I think he just couldn't be bothered to read anything, he's lazy, has no pride in his work and self centred...other than that if I don't seem him again for the next twenty years...(I shall be 93)..that's fine by me!

 

[DPG]

Yes I can understand that but he had all the spec because the kitchen had been bought and was in storage. I think he just couldn't be bothered to read anything, he's lazy, has no pride in his work and self centred...other than that if I don't seem him again for the next twenty years...(I shall be 93)..that's fine by me!

For someone you have known for 10 years, you perhaps didn't know him as well as you thought.

Let's hope this new guy is better.

 

[OMGAMISTUFFED]

For someone you have known for 10 years, you perhaps didn't know him as well as you thought.

Let's hope this new guy is better.

Absolutely, used to be a welding diver...knows his onions...well fuses etc....have great faith in him, we're all getting on a bit and have a lot of experience...but not with this whipper snapper unfortunately...hey you learn something new everyday!

 

[James]

It is certainly a good distance away from what i would consider a professional job.

however from what you have shown so far, it is possibly not a big job to put right.
glanding off armoured cables is probabley required but might not be, if the armour is earthed at the other end (i doubt it but it might be)

taped connector blocks just shout "WRONG" at me, BUT it may just be an unused cable being stowed away for later use?
the 3rd photo with the fused isolator, not sure what is wrong with it, maybe i am missing something?

 

[OMGAMISTUFFED]

It is certainly a good distance away from what i would consider a professional job.
however from what you have shown so far, it is possibly not a big job to put right.
glanding off armoured cables is probabley required but might not be, if the armour is earthed at the other end (i doubt it but it might be)
taped connector blocks just shout "WRONG" at me, BUT it may just be an unused cable being stowed away for later use?
the 3rd photo with the fused isolator, not sure what is wrong with it, maybe i am missing something?

It's back to front....he's wired it in around the wrong way. When the handle is used and the door opened it doesn't cut the current!
He got another fella to sign it off....he's been back and took the board to bits and put it all back again....HAD to didn't he!

 

[James]

I hope that the new guy you have employed is a registered electrician and will be able to submit your part P documents to building control?

 

[OMGAMISTUFFED]

I hope that the new guy you have employed is a registered electrician and will be able to submit your part P documents to building control?

Thank you, he's OK, good bloke. THANK GOODNESS! If ONLY he'd been available a year ago!!

 

[James]

It's back to front....he's wired it in around the wrong way. When the handle is used and the door opened it doesn't cut the current!
He got another fella to sign it off....he's been back and took the board to bits and put it all back again....HAD to didn't he!

Thank you, he's OK, good bloke. THANK GOODNESS! If ONLY he'd been available a year ago!!

so you have details of what body he is registered with and his registration number?
i presume that once bitten, twice shy is applicable and you have checked his registration details?

p.s. I still can't see what is wrong with the picture of the isolator unless it is not a fused isolator and the fused have been added to bridge the isolator.

 

[westward10]

The neutral conductors are connected across the wrong bolts for starters they have connected across the removable link bolts.

 

[James]

The neutral conductors are connected across the wrong bolts for starters they have connected across the removable link bolts.

Agreed, however can you see why it is not isolating?
I am presuming that it is a fused isolator and, F me just realised!
it is either not a fused isolator or the feed in cables are in the wrong place.
dumb moment on my part!!!

 

[westward10]

I was too busy looking at the neutral conductors but the lines are bolted direct to the fuses

 

[James]

good news is that it only a 10min fix

 

[davesparks]

the 3rd photo with the fused isolator, not sure what is wrong with it, maybe i am missing something?

Lugs are bolted directly to the fuse instead of the cable terminals, completely bypassing the switch part of the unit.

Oddly enough there was a very similar picture posted on here not too long ago.