Tell us about your faults!

[kung]

Hi ALL
Just thought id put this one up for all those faults we find.
heres one to kick it off !
Domestic RCD tripped and wouldnt reset cause was a blown low energy light bulb.
There you go now for yours !

 

[scotsparky]

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I found my record today.. 2 double sockets and 2 13A spurs ran in 2.5 all spured of the same point of a ring ( unfused spur off.) I t was during a PIR so code 1nd it do you think this is harsh?

 

[empress]

Re: What is the current carrying capacity of 1.5mm2!!!!

Came across this set up today in a void I was working in seems like the previous tenant didnt want to pay for his electricity so he decided to link out the meter and the ony cable he could find was the 1.5mm2 you see in the picture !!!!
I was very impressed with his VDE clothes pegs I must see if my supplier stocks them .

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pure class, should be a challenge on the "cube"

 

[davelerave]

Re: What is the current carrying capacity of 1.5mm2!!!!

Came across this set up today in a void I was working in seems like the previous tenant didnt want to pay for his electricity so he decided to link out the meter and the ony cable he could find was the 1.5mm2 you see in the picture !!!!
I was very impressed with his VDE clothes pegs I must see if my supplier stocks them .

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in fairness-he got a pass mark


-good contact on one side

-and he linked the right wires

 

[chloebear]

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Ok here's mine for this week - working at the YMCA (no singing - or dancing) shifting a socket outlet to make way for a new doorway. Noticed (as you do) that there was a spur wired off to the side out of the backbox into the metal framed cavity wall with no sign of a socket outlet in that direction anywhere. So tugged at the cable to see if I could guage where it went, and it started to free up, so tugged some more and HEY-PRESTO out pops the end of the cable - BARE ENDS (and I mean BARE and stripped back ends) live and fizzing just left in the wall. Boy God moves in mysterious ways to keep his own safe & sound.

 

[empress]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

Ok here's mine for this week - working at the YMCA (no singing - or dancing) shifting a socket outlet to make way for a new doorway. Noticed (as you do) that there was a spur wired off to the side out of the backbox into the metal framed cavity wall with no sign of a socket outlet in that direction anywhere. So tugged at the cable to see if I could guage where it went, and it started to free up, so tugged some more and HEY-PRESTO out pops the end of the cable - BARE ENDS (and I mean BARE and stripped back ends) live and fizzing just left in the wall. Boy God moves in mysterious ways to keep his own safe & sound.

yep know the feeling was testing a property on monday .
no continuity on one of the ring mains was a bungalow so traced to the area of break and went up in loft to find one end of the ring in mid air with ends stripped .
been like that for 25 years!

 

[adam.h]

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makes you wonder what the person was thinking when they stripped the cables only to walk away and forget about it.

 

[empress]

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makes you wonder what the person was thinking when they stripped the cables only to walk away and forget about it.

in this case the other leg of the ring went down to a socket and the stripped end was next to the drop.
i can only assume they had left it to short and were going to put a junction box on it making the other socket a spur.
must of been pint o'clock and they forgot all about it!

 

[adam.h]

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Best to strip them only when you plan on connecting them up to something, or at least put a connector block on the end lol.

 

[white spark]

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Went to an old boys house, he wanted an outside socket and a light run from the exisiting supply in the garage. On the phone he confirmed a mini rcd consumer unit already set up in the garage. Nice and easy methinks!
Turned out while he did have a nice little board in the garage it was supplied by a piece of 2.5 t&e running from the roof of the garage about 8 foot in the air and spanning about 12 foot to the side of the house and was spurred off the back of a socket on the upstairs ring. The cable had no form of support in the air either apart from the cable itself.
He wasn't interested in an upgrade and insisted it had been fine like that for years. I explained the dangers and turned down the job.
This was a week or so ago. I think he must have had someone else in who confirmed the same thing and he has called me back to quote for a swa replacement to main board!

 

[TPES]

I had done a CU change recently, a few days after the customer rings me up at half 7 in the morning to say his power has gone out.
He explained on the phone that his wife was pulling the bathroom pullcord on and off rapidly which was why the lighting circuit had tripped, I told him to go back to the CU and flick the MCB back on, he said to me that it is on but still no power, sounding very unhappy and having abit of a dig as if this was somehow my fault, I said I'm on my way straight over to check it out, so I started the 45 min drive, half way there the customer rings to say it's sorted, and I'm sorry,

he thought if the breaker was down it was on and if it was up it's off!

 

[nickblake]

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Now is he the guy with the very high hair do , what a numpty

 

[High Tower]

Look at this bunch of kack I got called out to, (second breaker from the left burnt) swapped it out for a spare way a few places down and promised to return another day to tidy it all up

 

[Sparky Ninja]

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Here's a board from a periodic I did a while back.. just starting to carry out remedials.

 

[Sparky Ninja]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

Also, here are some pics from my cousins house that was rewired by a housing association prior to him moving in.

 

[Sparky Ninja]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

And here is the quality certification to go with it