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]

That's gone a bit Schrodingers Cat, hasnt it???

Way above my head! I'm going to have to look that up now....hahaha WHOA....HEAVY..... If you left the cat long enough it would stink...definitely DEAD!

 

[plugsandsparks]

Couple of pics for a spot the difference between op and this one...You never see one and then two come along in a year... lol. I took a pic of the lugs behind the barrier to show where they should be connected. BTW, this was done live with my phone cam eeekkk

 

[littlespark]

Maybe the cat wasn’t the best analogy.

To discuss something to say we shouldn’t discuss that something?????

Oh yeah. The first rule of Fight Club

 

[ipf]

Couple of pics for a spot the difference between op and this one...You never see one and then two come along in a year... lol. I took a pic of the lugs behind the barrier to show where they should be connected. BTW, this was done live with my phone cam eeekkk

You should have taken that cover shield off so people could have a good look, then. It makes the DANGER sign look a bit idiotic, eh?
Or do you mean you connected it up live? It wouldn't surprise me if some interpreted it that way.

 

[plugsandsparks]

I was there to fit a meter some 250M away, this isolator was in the Sub, directly connected to the main site busbars, for info, the upsteam protection was 1000A MCCB. I wanted to know why when i switched the isolator off, there was still power to the part of the site i needed to fit the meter. The whole site had to be shut down to rectify. I only had permission to shut down the part i was working on. The photos were taken because i suspected no one would believe me...

 

[nicebutdim]

Amazes me how they get away with it, call themselves SPARKS....hmmmm....I wouldn't be able to hold my head up high if I knew I couldn't do a job properly, why do they take on a job if they know they can't handle it? Either damn stupid or so full of their self esteem. Pride comes before a fall eh...or maybe a dead person!!!!

It's likely the electrician in question didn't know they couldn't do the job properly and ploughed on in blissful ignorance.