Hi,
Thank you for your replies so far.
Yes it is a commercial installation. A refurbishment and building extension. Refurbished parts are being re-wired and a new fire alarm being installed. It is FP200 cable, checked today.
First picture shows new cables (grey) coming through a bulkhead wall between two loft areas. Hole could have been drilled at floor level. No attempt seems to have been taken to run the cables neatly or avoid other services. Their own 240V and 24V fire alarm cables run together. White cables clipped to floor are existing intruder alarm cables.
The cables are just run as quickly and as easily as possible in the loft area, over existing walkboards, rather than under, causing both trip hazard and potential damage to the cables when they get walked on or loft gets filled with junk. Many are run diagonally around the loft. No sign of a single cable clip anywhere on the T&E. Has made my work so much harder, trying to find ways to route my cables to avoid the mains stuff. A little more care by them would have made their job look so much neater.
Second photo shows the new fire panel. FP200 cable is crossing the T&E, running in the same trunking.
Picture 3 shows an earth bar in the trunking. At least it has one screw in it. Don't know where the end of the cable goes, I'm guessing water or gas. both are easily accessible, so whilst this would not break any regs, it would be neater to renew the full length.
Picture 4 is a joint in the cabling, new grey joining existing white. Did not notice if it was 2.5 or 1.5mm cable. It goes up into the loft. Again, I guess it does not break any regs, but how hard would it have been to run the first leg as one new piece?
Am I being to fussy or is this considered an acceptable standard of work?
One sparky said to me about the other, that he is an NICEIC Inspector. Not sure what that actually means. Is it just that he is the one who signs of the company jobs, or does he do work directly for NICIEC?