Redoing rubbish work

[magnoliafan89]

Got to a job today only to find out as well as a test I needed to do some remedial works to the board as the company we had subcontracting to us had made a state of it.
Have come across a few of their bits of handy work, they say a plastic board is a c2 and then change it and management were happy as it was dead cheap...neglecting the logic that if it didn't need changing anything over £0 was infact NOT cheap.

Now I'm not saying mine is spectacular but for a short notice job I was quite satisfied.

So here's before.......

 

[nicebutdim]

Never seen a Hager board with main switch on the left! What happened there?

Previous unit had main switch in the centre. Provided everything is connected correctly, is there a reason why mainswitch must be located on the right?

Have the internals have been reused in the new board?

 

[123]

Previous unit had main switch in the centre. Provided everything is connected correctly, is there a reason why mainswitch must be located on the right?

Have the internals have been reused in the new board?

Never seen it in the centre before either, it's usually on the right

 

[nicebutdim]

Never seen it in the centre before either, it's usually on the right

Yeah, I just wondered if there's any reason why it couldn't be relocated, obviously providing everything is connected correctly? Would this be considered a deviation from manufacturers specification or contravene any regulation within BS7671?

 

[Dave OCD]

You'd have to get the busbar past the main switch neutral terminal or connect your tails opposite to the L & N markings on the main switch, so that would certainly be a deviation, or in plain English a lash up.

 

[nicebutdim]

You'd have to get the busbar past the main switch neutral terminal or connect your tails opposite to the L & N markings on the main switch, so that would certainly be a deviation, or in plain English a lash up.

Both old and new CU in OP's images make such a deviation. I'm just curious to know if there's anything that specifically prohibits this?

 

[edexlab]

On original pic I can see what looks like a 16mm earth disconnected, below rhs of earth bar, presumably the Main Earth to MET
Was it like that when you arrived at the job?

 

[UNG]

That's what an £80 board change gets you

Demonstrates the stupidity of the bean counter placing the order for the work IMO at that price, no doubt the cost of the corrective work is hidden somewhere else

 

[Deleted account]

Demonstrates the stupidity of the bean counter placing the order for the work IMO at that price, no doubt the cost of the corrective work is hidden somewhere else

I think that was a tongue in cheek coment, or a bit of an exaggeration. At least I hope so.

 

[HappyHippyDad]

And after

And I know I know I have the main switch on with the cover off...but had to make my pictures purdy with lighting

Not all cables exactly straight at 90degrees. C2 and redo asap.

 

[magnoliafan89]

You'd have to get the busbar past the main switch neutral terminal or connect your tails opposite to the L & N markings on the main switch, so that would certainly be a deviation, or in plain English a lash up.

Why would you be using a busbar to connect to an RCD from the main switch???

 

[magnoliafan89]

Demonstrates the stupidity of the bean counter placing the order for the work IMO at that price, no doubt the cost of the corrective work is hidden somewhere else

God knows what they put into their price. But for our company they paid £80 to the subby to do a board change unnecessarily(as the subby classes plastic CUs as C2) then paid for me to have to test it and then go do the remdials when I hand an unsatisfactory report in.