This morning's bit of handy work

[uksparks]

Hi,

Just thought id share my work with you, I did this board change this morning, I was contemplating extending the circuits, but managed to get it all to fit quite well, quite neat considering.

Had to put new bonding in and tails and main earth which was a pain dragging it down through the cavity. I had to pull the main fuse in the end despite having WPD out last week to fit the isolator, I then realized today I couldn't get the earth in without removing the fuse!

Started at 7:45am and finished a 1pm, fully tested, inspected and all paperwork done.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Yeh right. Client has deep pockets and very short arms. My estimate and cert make the scope of works perfectly clear. Db1

feigning skintness (always a lie) is no excuse ....

and your feeder for DB2?

 

[Octopus]

feigning skintness (always a lie) is no excuse ....

and your feeder for DB2?

Surface run. Good ir. R1 + R2 as expected. Zs the same

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Surface run. Good ir. R1 + R2 as expected. Zs the same

OK but the point i was really trying to make Murdoch is that you have implied that there are dodgy finals coming off DB2...so you havn`t given it additional protection....which leads me to ask:

any additional/fault protection by means of RCD in the shed?

 

[Knobhead]

So Glenn, would you tell the customer you can’t connect power to their garage DB before or after you’ve started the job?

Before, you loose the job.
After, the customer is liable to shove your regs book where it will need surgically removing.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

So Glenn, would you tell the customer you can’t connect power to their garage DB before or after you’ve started the job?

Before, you loose the job.
After, the customer is liable to shove your regs book where it will need surgically removing.

well i wont leave myself open to any possible `examination` by some `authority` someware...

but i will reduce potentials to a minimum...wherever i can...

 

[ipf]

So Glenn, would you tell the customer you can’t connect power to their garage DB before or after you’ve started the job?

Before, you loose the job.
After, the customer is liable to shove your regs book where it will need surgically removing.

Oh, just shove it on an rcbo, that'll show him he has a problem, at least.

 

[Engineer54]

One comment, ...why not use a bit of blue heat shrink on those neutral connection ferrules, and also maybe cut the length down a little too. Sorry i just have a pet hate of seeing bare conductors within CU/DBs etc....

 

[davesparks]

You can get yourself a nice 10W schneider enclosure with 6 SPSN single module RCBO's with all appropriate bussbars and blanks for about £120, cheaper than doing it with many brands of SP RCBO and it gives you proper segregation of circuits.

 

[davesparks]

One comment, ...why not use a bit of blue heat shrink on those neutral connection ferrules, and also maybe cut the length down a little too. Sorry i just have a pet hate of seeing bare conductors within CU/DBs etc....

Believe it or not that is how MK supply them,

 

[Engineer54]

Believe it or not that is how MK supply them,

Maybe, but i for one certainly wouldn't leave them like that.... Though it seems from other CU upgrade photo's, most are prepared to leave them being oversized and bare, but as i say ..Not I! lol!!

 

[davesparks]

As you may have gathered I don't fit RCD split boards so don't have the flying neutral leads to contend with.
But in the days of the 16 the edition when the standard split board was the norm I never saw a problem with it, the cable is connected to a bare brass bar which is fully exposed so what does a 1/4" of ferrule matter?

(And apparently nobody ever takes the lid off without phoning the DNO to come and remove the bullet for them anyway)

 

[NDG Elecs]

Well done for labelling bonds and earth etc mate. Makes next sparks life a lil easier. Felt the labelling of the cooker cct cable before you stripped the 3036 out wasn't needed as it looks to be the only 4/6mm in there! Never used MK boards as I don't like the stickers - look too cluttered. I like BG, decent price high integrity boards, standard dual boards usually go for Hager.

 

[Engineer54]

As you may have gathered I don't fit RCD split boards so don't have the flying neutral leads to contend with.
But in the days of the 16 the edition when the standard split board was the norm I never saw a problem with it, the cable is connected to a bare brass bar which is fully exposed so what does a 1/4" of ferrule matter?

(And apparently nobody ever takes the lid off without phoning the DNO to come and remove the bullet for them anyway)

As i said you can do whatever, apart from anything else, to me it just doesn't look right!! I think you'll find it's more like 1/2'' or so rather than 1/4'', which is why i suggested cutting the length down a bit as well!! lol!!

 

[Guest77]

Well hats off to UKsparks who had the courage to post up photos here, the job looks okay and nothing looks dangerous to me so all in all it is fine, a few picky points could be made but I aint going to make them, as mentioned fairplay to him, for posting, just to finish MK boards are terrible IMO, I prefer BG, Lewden or Curves for domestic use, MEM or Merlin Gerin for commercial use.

 

[PEG]

Yep,fair play to him for basically voluntarily entering a nation wide wang length competition...we can all be picky...i thought why are there redundant breakers left in there?...they ONLY confuse the customer and can cause arguments after the cooker blows christmas dinner,then i remembered,i do it too... good job fella :indian_brave: