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[Raptor0014]

Nothing to see here. Just a 80a supply nicely terminated…..

 

[littlespark]

Nothing to see here. Just a 80a supply nicely terminated…..

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Is this in a chippy, or pub kitchen by any chance?
Mainswitch looks like it’s had a coating of airborne cooking oil fumes

 

[James]

Hot and slippery, Just the way I like my isolators.... hmm wait, i was thinking of something else there for a moment.

 

[Raptor0014]

Is this in a chippy, or pub kitchen by any chance?
Mainswitch looks like it’s had a coating of airborne cooking oil fumes

10 points to littlespark. Pub Kitchen.

I’m changing the board tomorrow. All the fixings are broken bar one so it’s literally hanging off the wall and I nearly couldn’t get it back together when I was checking the cabling today. I think it’s only the grease holding it all together.

 

[Welchyboy1]

Thought this EICR was going to be a breeze today…was told before I arrived the systems all been upgraded to the latest regs, new steel cu, all rcbos, apparently done in 2017 by an NIC AC
surely this isn’t the work of someone who actually gives a s#&t!

(I added the blanks by the way)

No certs available though lol that would of been interesting

 

[SparkySy]

Aaagh my eyes!! You got the shortest of short straws with that one!
Sy

 

[SparkySy]

One of many beauties I came across today!

 

[westward10]

This is wood dust.

 

[James]

Thought this EICR was going to be a breeze today…was told before I arrived the systems all been upgraded to the latest regs, new steel cu, all rcbos, apparently done in 2017 by an NIC AC
surely this isn’t the work of someone who actually gives a s#&t!

(I added the blanks by the way)

No certs available though lol that would of been interesting

I am surprised to see penny washer used to hold that junction box to the wall.
from the looks of the rest of it i would have expected sticky tape or chewing gum!!

 

[littlespark]

I took the cover off a board just last week and it was full of cavity wall insulation that had found it’s way inside from the rear…

Got a surprise when the good lady of the house stretched over me with the metal tube of her vacuum cleaner to clean it out

Had to stop her and explain the dangers

 

[timhoward]

This is wood dust.View attachment 96056

So....leaf-blower or Henry?

 

[SparkySy]

I bet there was more in there until you removed the cover and it snowed it everywhere
Sure I've posted this before. This one was full to the very top of chaff and mice bedding, only after removing it was the damage they had done revealed! I had the cavity wall insulation one a few times, its a right mess to clean up!

 

[westward10]

So....leaf-blower or Henry?

It was in a wood mill extraction booth maintenance didn't know it was there, you couldn't actually see it due to a dust mountain it was the trunking that gave it away.

 

[Dartlec]

Thought this EICR was going to be a breeze today…was told before I arrived the systems all been upgraded to the latest regs, new steel cu, all rcbos, apparently done in 2017 by an NIC AC
surely this isn’t the work of someone who actually gives a s#&t!

(I added the blanks by the way)

No certs available though lol that would of been interesting

Who makes Reco? rebranded something I assume - looks like they took inspiration from MK (Though to be fair the new MK stuff seems to have fixed the lean)

 

[Welchyboy1]

Who makes Reco? rebranded something I assume - looks like they took inspiration from MK (Though to be fair the new MK stuff seems to have fixed the lean)

Never seen that brand before tbh

though looks similar gear to CED boards by Toolstation rebrand as you said

cant believe he’s used additional CU internal neutral conductors to extend the rcbo neutrals how would they be too short ???

looking forward to ripping that lot out and rewiring

 

[timhoward]

Not so much the high number of connections crammed into a box which is bad enough, but the entire circuit concept...
This is next to the CU on one side:

The other side of CU is a DIN rail timer:

Connections are CU to the joint box. Joint box uninterrupted back through CU to timer. timer back through CU again to joint box using 3 core flex with brown sleeving on all three (naughty!). Then off to three outside lighting circuits.

The circuit feeding it all was showing 0.07 Mohms IR L+N to E so I'll be starting again.
I also found the timer is linked out anyway!

 

[littlespark]

G/y core as a live conductor?? Tut tut

 

[Deleted account]

G/y core as a live conductor?? Tut tut

I don’t like it and wouldn’t also, but I have been informed this is acceptable if it’s sleaved.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Only filthy animals and plumbers use the Cpc as a Phase conductor

 

[pc1966]

I don’t like it and wouldn’t also, but I have been informed this is acceptable if it’s sleaved.

I thought G/Y was explicitly only for CPC use?

Edit: Yes, see 514.4.2