Schools

[ChrisElectrical88]

Started a EICR on a school today, 75% rewire 4-5 years ago by a local firm. Oh my word. It's dinner on day one and its crap.
No earth sleeping in sockets, old cables with tape live above ceilings, they have come off a old fuse board and to earth the T&E they have twisted 10 earths together and crimped them into a 25mm lug and just self tapped it (loosely) to the DB frame.
For safe isolation of the old DBs (which are still connected, fuses not even removed from switched fuses) they have just put a piece of white tape saying "Don't switch on" over the leaver. The other ends of these cables are not terminated and are just cut off above ceilings.

shocking.
anybody else having fun on the schools this summer?

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

The lack of sleeving didn't **** me off the most in that picture. It's the fact Every socket in the school has twisted earths! My pet hate! Makes r1+r2s a nightmare!! To be fair the head of the electrical department at the council is good at his job and was a decent spark. Was more than likely somebody else who checked this out for them.

Arghhhh I hate this too!