had the worst call out ever this morning, client called to say can i come round to quote for a rewire,
always suspect when i am called to one of these
got there to find no lighting, on poking around found a 32 off in the wylex mini mcb plug in type cu, cant be that in fact nothing below 16 in the whole board.
on further talking to the customer found that they had had on of those builders
in short the upstairs 1mm was on a 16 amp
the downstairs 1mm was on a 32, the reason they did that, simple, they connected the laundry room sockets and 2 sets of ufh onto the exisiting lighting circuit, has been running for the last 5 years like that!!!!
spent hours on site, felt like i should call the police, things like 2.5 under the carpet in the hallway with cores exposed from the foot traffic 3 2.5 mm cables placed together and tape joined, like you would with speaker cables.
my apprentice learnt a new phrase today, energise with caution, even though you have tested you are still unsure when things are that bad.
to make it worse the property had a PIR carried out a few years ago and passed.
got a parking ticket but actually do not care about that, think i might actually go and find this builder and prevent him from carrying out any more of these installations.
always suspect when i am called to one of these
got there to find no lighting, on poking around found a 32 off in the wylex mini mcb plug in type cu, cant be that in fact nothing below 16 in the whole board.
on further talking to the customer found that they had had on of those builders
in short the upstairs 1mm was on a 16 amp
the downstairs 1mm was on a 32, the reason they did that, simple, they connected the laundry room sockets and 2 sets of ufh onto the exisiting lighting circuit, has been running for the last 5 years like that!!!!
spent hours on site, felt like i should call the police, things like 2.5 under the carpet in the hallway with cores exposed from the foot traffic 3 2.5 mm cables placed together and tape joined, like you would with speaker cables.
my apprentice learnt a new phrase today, energise with caution, even though you have tested you are still unsure when things are that bad.
to make it worse the property had a PIR carried out a few years ago and passed.
got a parking ticket but actually do not care about that, think i might actually go and find this builder and prevent him from carrying out any more of these installations.
