VIR Cables a Ticking time bomb

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nickblake

This ones reall scary , visited a house , and found this , this is when you need to issue a Danger notification and i did , but how the hell do you tell a 79 year old widow that there electrics are dangerouse , well that what i have had to face ,and it was drop tools and get it sorted , basically the whole house is i need of a total rewire and its been started , looked at it friday started rewiring yesterday , had a sleepless weekend i can tel you , shocked the woman with the speed i jumped on it ,and managed to do it without scar GEDC4615.jpging the living daylights out of her , part rewired now , have managed to remove the worst effected cables and install a new dual RCD board in new legsGEDC4616.jpg to the kitchen boiler cooker and earth bonding installed, the whole kitchen was running off the cooker circuit tapped off with junction boxes and socGEDC4617.jpgkets also wired in 1mm twe of a 30 amp 3036 nice , realy annoying thing is 6 months ago she had a new boiler radiators and room stat installed guss whGEDC4607.jpgat no bonding to water or gas service and the room stat wired with no neutral and installed right next to the heating pipes ,ment to be done by a qualGEDC4614.jpgified spark !!! more like a muppet , so if you get a customer who says its ok works for years show them these pics ,cables date back to the early 50'sGEDC4622.jpg

i think the biggest question is why the hell didnt the meter fitter inform the lady of the house as it had a new meter fitted november 2010 !!!!! copy of the pics inc the british gas one sent to the ESC

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Sector are mad by electrium so basically wylex / crabtree they are senates own brand not bad boards only thing i hate is the tri rated cable it always looks a mess
 

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