Need some advice and fast

[wade88]

Morning everyone,

Had my first emergecny call out last night at 9.30pm...rather annoying, but a families downlighter had caught fire with three kids asleep upstairs and they were in rather a flap about it.

Upon arrival to the house and giving the fitting an inspection it was apparent straight away that it had obviously over heater and got very very hot subsequently causing it to burn. i could see no transformer present for that fitting but i do believe downlighters can share transformers, maybe 3-4 per transformer? Without lifting up their carpets and floot boards and getting a good look at what had been done with them upon installation i could hardly make any conclusions from what i saw, so just made it safe and left seeing as i had limited gear with me and was pretty much in my pj's.

Can anyone throw me any ideas/reasons as to what may have caused this fire, and just some general info on downlighters as im writing a report to their landlord and want to get it all right.

Cheers guys

B

 

[Hawk81]

Loose connection or faulty connector block

 

[wade88]

Makes sense,

decided not to take on the inspection for insurance reasons right now and dont feel comfortable inspecting a property that is such a shambles. Quite frankly i dont belive im competent enough to sign off this one and wouldnt like the responsibility to fall on me.

Recommended the original contractors come back and ammend their co*k ups.

 

[malcolmsanford]

Do you not know a tame Sparks in your area ............................what you want is an old semi retired lad who wouldn't mind a little cash and he would walk you through the testing for you, that way you wouldn't loose the work and be learning at the same time.

 

[wade88]

I've been looking for someone like that for ages to get my eye in a bit but no one is interested. My neighbour is a spark but he turned it down, said he didnt do PIR's because of the risk and wouldnt touch it, and he hasnt got enough work to have me follow him around at the moment.