Not in good condition

[nickblake]

So who likes the old wooden backed wylex boards , well here the reason i hate them the one ive been out to today just fell apart riddled with wood worm , and another reason why i hate them is for the fact the fuse cover when removed exposes live terminals , and in so many case when people use a single plug in MCB they leave the covers off exposing the terminals , in this install i spotted a loose earth wire doing my pre checks it went to the left hand switch fuse which was the shower nice eh no cpc's in the lighting circuits and an 80 year olds owner so its up to me to sort it out no way i can rewire due to the the disruption it can cause so its up grade to the best i can so ive lowered the consumer unit and work is in progress

 

[keniff]

Nice! What did you use for all those joins on the cable?

 

[Engineer54]

I wonder if your new modern board, will last as long as those old Wylex CU's??
They too were state of the art, ...back in the early 50's...lol!!

 

[Taylortwocities]

So make sure that you don't do any electrical wiring yourself (now illegal unless you are suitably qualified), and employ a fully qualified person to do it for you!

This always make me smile......
[video=youtube;lZPqnizYRrA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZPqnizYRrA&feature=plcp[/video]

 

[nickblake]

I wonder if your new modern board, will last as long as those old Wylex CU's??
They too were state of the art, ...back in the early 50's...lol!!

think we all no the answer to that and that is no , the RCD's will go some time within the next 12 months and to be honest those old wylex boards were good , just the old wood worm was the death of this one

Thank you Top cat really appriciated that comment and yes i take alot of pride in my work , would love to see the passion back in the trade

 

[rugbyspark]

Congrats, nice job.
I think the Part P (Pretend Elects) has been the death of good workmanship, no proper training in the school of hard knocks and silly mistakes, plus there's not so much heavy industry to learn in.
I did 5yrs in steel industry where we had 6 months in all depts, excellent facilities.