3 wraps of tape ?????

[daza1001]

Doing some building & electrical work this week for a customer. Found live cables buried in wall. Told customer & they said they had paid another electrical contractor to remove these cables & that were previously connected to wall lights. Obvisally he removed wall lights & buried cable.
The customer contacted the previous contractor & he came back to see the problem.
He told me that the NICEIC allow connectors to be burried in the wall provided they have 3 wraps of insulating tape around the connectors. What bull ****. The mater was made worse by that he had not wraped the cables in insulating tape anyway.
What a plank! :snore:

 

[Edd]

3 wraps it is then!! insulation at its best..
edit.. saying that though I was taught that when installing meters that 5 wraps of tape around the tails was needed to make sure when they were pushed up the holes it would seal tight and stop people pushing cables up to tamper with them

 

[MarkieSparkie]

The idiot deserves 3 wraps ... across the knuckles!:biggrinjester:

 

[Mark P]

If you read the NICEIC "Effing Good Practice Guide" at a mere £55 +vat, you will see they specify the use of NICEIC embossed tape which has special properties and therefore the install does not have to comply with the regs!

 

[Spazz]

What rubbish!

How can 1 tape out preform another so much its exempt of regs????

Regs are regs and dont change from item to item


If I am wrong I will stand corrected and hold my hands up

 

[DaveyD]

What rubbish!

How can 1 tape out preform another so much its exempt of regs????

Regs are regs and dont change from item to item

Mark is Joking perhaps?

 

[Heisenberg]

Mark is Joking perhaps?

No perhaps about it.

Nicholas, you've been caught... Hook, line and sinker :lol:

 

[Mark P]

It is late perhaps?

 

[Des 56]

I must make argument against 3 wraps of tape,in these times of austerity surely 2 should be sufficient

 

[Rockingit]

You guys can still afford tape? Flipping 'eck, things must be good for some. My missus has been tearing the Sun up into strips for me.

 

[Heisenberg]

You guys can still afford tape? Flipping 'eck, things must be good for some. My missus has been tearing the Sun up into strips for me.

Luxury.

 

[Rockingit]

Lump o' coal?

 

[Heisenberg]

Handful of freezing gravel.

 

[Rockingit]

Gravel??! Lickin' tarmac on't road.

 

[Mark P]

Gravel??! Lickin' tarmac on't road.

That's nuthin'. T'NIC make us gerrup before we've gone to bed, lick end of live conductor wit tongue (and make us pay for t'privilege).............

 

[telectrix]

bed, what's that? as kids we had the drawers in the sideboard, one each.

 

[trev]

THE SUN????? you flash git I have to make do with the Metro cos it's free

 

[needasparks]

I know it was practice for the lecky board years ago to have six turns on the tails before putting in the meter.

 

[Darkwood]

Excluding the bodgit practice i assume burying the cables and removing the lights effectively puts them out of zone too, another breach of the green god bible.

 

[trev]

So someone who is supposed to be a spark tries to persuade an actual spark that this is not a bodge?
Interesting.

 

[Heisenberg]

As this has been alluded to quite a bit, it seems only fair that we educate the younger ones as to what exactly it is we are blathering on about. This is not the original, but I think it is probably the best performed one I have seen. I especially like the ending where Terry Jones is struggling to keep a straight face...

Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen (with Rowan Atkinson) - YouTube

:rofl: