**Show Us Your Installs!!!**

[Spudnik]

Right chaps,

Due to a few unavoidable issues, we have lost the original thread and pics etc.

Sorry about that!!!

So, if you want to re-upload your pics then great, if not, give us something new!


Cheers!!

 

[HandySparks]

Only thing I didn't like was socket's labelled north and south, not seen it done before but could make things potentially confusing for someone with no sense of where north is (ME!!!)

And in regards to meter tail's, what's the problem with keeping both inner and outer sheath the same length? I have always done it like that, I wrap a bit of blue or brown tape around the live or neutral

Yes, we had some discussion about the labelling. Problem is that you'd never get a complete description of the points served on a small label (eg, "kitchen, plus two sockets out of three in dining room, plus one in hallway, plus two out of three in main bedroom"). Using left and right, you'd have to say whether looking AT front of house or looking OUT of front of house, so not definitive either. It was the best we could come up with. We're going to add a floorplan with the points marked with circuit numbers.

Unless it needs to stay on (exposed cable), I always cut back the outer sheath of tails to reveal the insulation colour. Although not likely in the short term, tape can eventually get old and fall off. Ideally I'd use tails with brown or blue sheathing, like the meter fitter has used.

 

[Amp David]

Cutting the outer sheath back more than the insulation also makes routing and terminating 25mm tails so much easier. Nowt wrong with it.

 

[pennywise]

Re: Refrigeration install

Little install I did in London a few weeks ago.

Next time you might want to use GXD glands for the SY:biggrin:, nice and neat though.

http://www.s-w-a.co.uk/resources/Premier_brass_cable_glands/GXD_cable_glands.pdf

 

[Jimsparky]

I've used them a few times before but tend to end up with to much braiding stuck in my finger ends !!

The factory was such a mess as well the rest of the installations was unreal.

 

[DurhamSparky]

Kitchen refit august 2012

 

[cdavies33]

Kitchen refit august 2012

Should you really be fixing electrical accessories to the kitchen cupboards?? :-/ I might be wrong!

 

[ashrow]

i can see one problem with this...................

no seals on the cover screws for the tails isolator?
(in my opinion, it looked like a great job and wish my every day work looked like that, but alas clients and prices for the works do not give me the time to be some damn neat)

 

[DurhamSparky]

whats wrong with that...! ??? not like they going to be moved any time soon... and it looks better than having a unsightly hole chopped out back of the unit!

 

[rich.250]

Should you really be fixing electrical accessories to the kitchen cupboards?? :-/ I might be wrong!

I don't see why you can't!!

 

[Swicade]

Hope there's nothing wrong with fitting them to a cupboard otherwise i'll have to redo what i did earlier today....

 

[sedgy34]

Should you really be fixing electrical accessories to the kitchen cupboards?? :-/ I might be wrong!

i was just going to say try using grid switches 20A dp instead of spurs everywhere its alot neater

 

[Amp David]

i was just going to say try using grid switches 20A dp instead of spurs everywhere its alot neater

Every time now for me.

Are them sockets either side of the cooker level with each other or is it an optical illusion?

 

[HandySparks]

no seals on the cover screws for the tails isolator?
(in my opinion, it looked like a great job and wish my every day work looked like that, but alas clients and prices for the works do not give me the time to be some damn neat)

It's the customer's isolator, not the DNO/suppliers, so no reason for seals. Despite the fact that I put it on the DNO's backboard, which was commented on but accepted as reasonable by the meter fitter.

Yes, it's nice to do a job for someone who appreciates a good quality job and is prepared to pay for it. Not all my jobs are as tidy! (But never shoddy, I hasten to add.)

 

[sedgy34]

Every time now for me.

Are them sockets either side of the cooker level with each other or is it an optical illusion?

It's a 3d pic in hd lol

 

[sedgy34]

Kitchen refit august 2012

Try putting your sockets 1100 mm ( bottom of box) above the work tops it will look better on your pics