Not too happy with this work...

[Kitty0307]

We're first time house renovators and recently had an electrician in to replace the main board and rewire the kitchen.

I'm really not too happy with the results. There are cables coming out of the wall below the sockets and running back into the floor, multiple holes around sockets and where old sockets were and worst of all an absolutely huge hole in our hallway above the new main board.

On speaking to the electrician he's advised he doesn't do plastering- but I had assumed he would at least make good after doing the rewire- whether that was included in the additional quote or would be at additional cost.

As a complete newbie to having a rewire and any kind of electrical work done, am I overreacting? It doesn't look as professional as I would have expected....And the cables coming out of the wall and then into the floor dont seem right either.

I'd like to have a chat with him about it but not really sure what to say and how things should look. Not like this, I'm sure!

Anybody?

 

[richy3333]

There are CPS in Scotland run by SELECT and NICEIC! They are Approved contractors. Or you can be SJIB (and jump through a few more hoops sometimes) No DI’s thank god! We don’t have English Building Regs but by virtue of our Building Standards a warrant might be necessary for this job? problem is up here that with no part P notification there are loads of un skilled, under skilled and non skilled people doing electrical work and lack of public education means the customer doesn’t know what questions to ask to get a competent person. Then there’s no policing of these bodgers whom permanently live under the radar.

Added to that there appears to have been little or no discussion as to the scope of work and damage to the fabric betwix the customer and contractor. Were there any contract terms agreed?

Maybe a personal thing but if I was rewiring this in stages I’d be issuing certification as we went along to prove what I’d done was safe and I was happy to put my name to it and ask for stage payments. Maybe it’s just my company best practice.

This example really shows the diverse number of opinions and the scope for considering what people in the trade consider is ok and not. I guess that’s a fault of self regulation and vague and woolly ‘regs’. For example I don’t necessarily have an issue with the hole above the CU if further rewiring is to be done. Maybe the contractor was over zealous or maybe a large chunk broke out, who knows? But running a cable around the skating as has been done looks amateurish and lazy. But again we don’t have the full picture of what is going in that area when it comes to finishing?

Think the OP needs to talk to the contractor to iron matters out.