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[hercule]

Found the following when opened up a socket in my own home. CU had been replaced by a fellow NIC contractor about 18 months ago, just before i bought the place. I've got his test results along with the paperwork from the sale of the house. IR test on this circuit was greater than 299, as was every other circuit. Hmmmm...

 

[Octopus]

Nice!!

 

[roukel01]

what can I say, thats what you get with you NIC lot!!!

 

[ackbarthestar]

Looks like rubber insulated with either tinned / aluminum conductors.

Good reason for a PIR if that is the state of the house wiring.

 

[Des 56]

Until there are repercussions for rubbish testing and incompetence and fraud
Any certificate is hardly worth the paper its printed on,be it Niceic, any of the others, or an individuals own version

I suspect you are very annoyed with what you found,but probably not surprised

 

[trev]

Disgraceful. Maybe things like this are why we don't get taken seriously as a trade.

 

[MarkieSparkie]

Looks like a "drive by reporting". >299M Ohms seems highly unlikely, I would have expected <2M Ohms in that condition.

 

[Octopus]

May be you should write a letter, (without letting on you are a spark) to the NICEIC and enclose a copy of the photo and see how they respond.

 

[Engineer54]

Why bother, ...seems that none of them will be interested in the slightest, unless of course the electrician is using there ''Logo'' illegally, then they jump into action, but only on the use of there Logo!!

 

[hercule]

The (early victorian terrace) house was bought by a 'builder' - a proper cowboy I have since discovered - and modernised, it didn't have central heating, he removed chiney breast and took out an internal wall, all looked like it had been done properly - labc letters etc.

But the longer we've been here the more things are starting to fall apart. He must have done most things himself and just got a spark to do the cu change - also did power to detached garage (swa all looks fine) and main bonding. He did everything as cheap as possible as he wasn't going to live in the house himself.

I think the spark just chanced it, no way the builder wouldn have paid for a pir. Problem is, when you chance it you sometimes get caught out. The house must have been rewired around 20 years ago and I think he must have looked at most of it and thought it was all ok, but missed this. This cable fed an unfused spur with all power in the front room on it. It looks like at some point someone fancied a bit of diy and used a bit of old rubber insulated cable they found under the floor boards (loads of rubbish in the floor void) to spur of a socket. Some years later another diyer thought they'd take a spur of this socket and so on...

Either he didn;t test it properly or more likely he got very low reading and knew he wasn'g going to get paid to do any other remedial work so forgot about it.

The cable just crumbled away as soon as I touched it and must have been about a 8m run to the socket.

 

[Octopus]

Why bother, ...seems that none of them will be interested in the slightest, unless of course the electrician is using there ''Logo'' illegally, then they jump into action, but only on the use of there Logo!!

The problem is that if we all have "why bother" attitude, then the schemes will never do anything. We should ALL do exactly the opposite and report things in a constructive manner - then they may start taking notice.

 

[telectrix]

bit of sleeving, be good as new >LOL

 

[Rockingit]

The problem is that if we all have "why bother" attitude, then the schemes will never do anything. We should ALL do exactly the opposite and report things in a constructive manner - then they may start taking notice.

The ESC might have some teeth in this?

 

[Engineer54]

The problem is that if we all have "why bother" attitude, then the schemes will never do anything. We should ALL do exactly the opposite and report things in a constructive manner - then they may start taking notice.

When there is no financial benifit for them to get involved, why do you think any of these scammers will be interested. Then you have the situation that these scammers have actually verified there members as ''competent''!! How can they then turn round and say that he isn't??
These scammers are not on anyone's side, least of all there own members. They will always go the easy non- commitment route, ....ala, Do nothing and it will all go away and leave us free to continue on the money train...