Why do we Bother

[meridian911]

Just been to a job to do some minor works and found the usual " boards just been changed" blah with no main earth, meter tails in separate holes in metal board plus a few other horrors.
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Check out the page from the test cert and pictures of board.

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[Andy78]

Yep he probably is, and good money too. On a side note that bg board was OK seemed well built, anyone no how much they are ?

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Cheap as chips.
I have tried them a few times but won't touch them now. RCDs not meeting tripping times out of the box, screw terminals that won't tighten properly, push in blanks that can be removed with fingers thus not meeting regulations, are a few of the problems that lead me to believe it's utter junk.

I believe MK are slightly cheaper and if I was needing to save pence on each board swap I'd probably go for that instead.

 

[hasel5]

Not sure on that one but they are about £80 at screwfix

 

[tomspark93]

Yep he probably is, and good money too. On a side note that bg board was OK seemed well built, anyone no how much they are ?

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tried one out the other week on a rewire and made it look a nice job In the end with some propper blanks. Nice big knockouts on the back. What let it down for me was fitting the bus bar in to the live terminal on the main switch. There wasn't enough room for the live tail to the RCDs and the bus bar to make it high integrity. I had to file the bus bar to get it in.

 

[meridian911]

Think I'll stick with eaton and hager then, I did fit a bg plastic one a few years ago and had the same problem with terminal screws cross threaded from factory.

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[steamboatwilly]

I guess we bother because - hopefully - the number of crap jobs like this is surely reducing now?

 

[meridian911]

Not in my part of the world or maybe I just have the knack of finding them

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[steamboatwilly]

If I'm honest I see loads of crap that's old but not so much that's new. I'd lived in hope that meant things were changing for the good but maybe I just lack that knack of finding them! Or maybe it's that in Cornwall only the second home owners can afford to have newer work done so not as much is happening!

Keep the faith meridian!