Scotland, Old style lighting JB, Will it pass an EICR, Photo attached

[DavidSpark]

Yes, noticed this, its a feed for the smoke detector circuit, I stripped that out already

You stripped the cable out, or you stripped the smoke detector out?

 

[Delectrician]

Its rough
The box is not earthed
The cables do have strain relief via the clips
The earth sleevings are iffy
The blue of the old 3 core was not sleeved black (a bit irrelevant nowadays)
The connector blocks are floating
Black live switch wire no id
Black conductor of the new 3 core just lobbed off
Finally ( at least I think so)there is no lid

Other than that,I have seen much worse than whats on display
Above comments aside,nothing wrong with a junction box that is accessible,they can have advantages over loop in at lights and/or switches

It is certainly rough, the earth sleeving will be upgraded, core id's will be rectified, will fix a the connectors, the lid is off at the moment. so yeah with all those issues sorted I think its a pass

 

[Delectrician]

You stripped the cable out, or you stripped the smoke detector out?

I stripped the cable out, as I am fitting Aico 10yr lithium batt detectors, so will do my feed in 1.5 & the rest of the circuit in 3 core

 

[buzzlightyear]

apart looking like tin of spaghetti, only one thing missing from that
f88king knife & fork. 100 lines man .on the paper could do better .

 

[Delectrician]

apart looking like tin of spaghetti, only one thing missing from that
f88king knife & fork. 100 lines man .on the paper could do better .

Yeah, I know, I really want to rewire all the lights, but budgets tight

 

[buzzlightyear]

if it was me get a some thin MDF place inside the chocolate box.
get a strip of block connectors screw to the MDF and tidy up the cables job done .and don't for get to put a lid on!

 

[7029 dave]

I would change to plastic AB.

 

[westward10]

It would be highly unlikely an EICR would pick that up imo. Or do you all go check the loft thoroughly?

See Section D of the EICR model format in Appendix 6 BS7671.

 

[buzzlightyear]

See Section D of the EICR model format in Appendix 6 BS7671

I can see
that happing with all the loft installation on top of it .

 

[westward10]

I find the cable below the box which appears to have cotton covering and red, blue and green conductors more interesting even though it is probably dead.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

get a strip of block connectors

Nah. Handful of Wagos and 20 mins and you can have that spick and span and safe. I quite like octopus wiring, where everything meets at a convenient and accessible point. Poking a load of CPCs in one choc block is no good but a couple of 8-way Wagos will sort it all out nicely.
No idea what you want with a 6mm CPC & it doesn't need bonding. It's an accessory, just earth it to the CPC like you would a metal light fitting.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

I find the cable below the box which appears to have cotton covering and red, blue and green conductors more interesting

That's actually Blue / Orange / Green because it's an old phone cable.

 

[westward10]

That's actually Blue / Orange / Green because it's an old phone cable.

Ah that answers that then.

 

[Toneyz]

if it was me get a some thin MDF place inside the chocolate box.
get a strip of block connectors screw to the MDF and tidy up the cables job done .and don't for get to put a lid on!

Could change it to one of these there are more way units available.

 

[Pete999]

I’d be worried if you are wiring lighting in series connection.

Yes one out all out