Whats your thoughts on this

[pirate]

and why pay £300k for ----?
(He added, as an afterthought)

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Just a thought...if a L comes adrift when you take the socket off...that backbox might be live...but if the guys fitting them have only ever encountered plastic, drywall back-boxes, they may not realise the consequences...and if so, they have no place wiring them in, in the first place...in which case, they have clearly had insufficient training.
Mr New House Owner might indeed fit shiny chrome faceplates, and assume the existing chocblock CPC termination was all that was required...
Bloody new-builds...well, you all know I hate 'em!
Plus, it isn't difficult to get 4 CPCs in the earth block thingy, or crimp them...
but then, I am not an electrician, so will put my hard hat on...

There looks like only the one CPC.

 

[Squid]

and why pay £300k for ****?
(He added, as an afterthought)

Thats for cheap sh!te........

 

[westward10]

Won’t be that hard to push when the alternative is paying for someone to go round and check every light switch and make good any damage to the finished decoration.

Or pay a competent person in the first place, mistakes should be rectified.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Or pay a competent person in the first place, mistakes should be rectified.

Unfortunately, it seems to be becoming the norm to employ unqualified workers for most of a job and finish off with a couple of qualified.

 

[Intoelectrics]

Glad everyone is in agreement.
Like i say every switch is like this. Reckon Its done because they have trouble putting 3 or 4 Cpcs into the earth terminal of the KO box, a fly lead would obviously waste valuable time...
Thing is all the time the plastic screw caps are on it compiles even though its dogs mess !

Edit....
I forgot to add, every switch has decorators chaulk round it too.
Walls are just taped, jointed, and painted.
Cheap as chips.

Part of the problem is that the prices & time scales to do these houses is so tight that every opportunity to cut corners is taken. The caulk round the accessories is probably not the electrical contractors fault. Everybody is on a tight schedule and adopt the attitude "its not my problem".
Regardless, it is a poor job done by the sparky, so no excuse there!

Another thing I like to do on metal back boxes is fold back flat the redundant accessory fixing lugs. I have often found these to have nicked or pinched cables, especially if its a bit busy behind the accessory.

 

[Intoelectrics]

I like to line up the fixing screws either vertical or horizontal, but that's because I'm a bit ---- when it comes to the aesthetics. Also you know if somebody else has been messing after you have fixed it back

 

[Deleted member 26818]

I like to line up the fixing screws either vertical or horizontal, but that's because I'm a bit ---- when it comes to the aesthetics. Also you know if somebody else has been messing after you have fixed it back

Has to be vertical.

 

[Midwest]

also the wall should have been painted before the face plates had been attached, paint on the face plate nasty paint lines going around the aperture.
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Think you'll find that most developers want the painters & decorators into the building as the last working trade. Stops the grubby hand marks & screwdriver marks from an uncaring electrical bod etc.

 

[Midwest]

Im hope your right.
I was told this by an NIC inspector in February (i know, i know) it came up as it was around that time that i noticed click started providing the caps on their accessories.
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The plastic caps (hate em) are to stop you ---- arsehols taking hours lining up the screw slots on the fixing screws, in a vary OCD type way.