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DiscoDave
Just been watching it and apart from the obvious irony of my hammer sponsoring the show one of their cowboy traps has left me a little confused.
They have asked the cowboy to install an outside flood light. so he's taken the lid of a pipe boxing, drilled out and put what looked like 1.5mm twin to a 150 halogen light. on the inside he's run the cable down the inside of the boxing, out through the side of the boxing in to a SFS that is fed from the washing machine socket below the work top.
After he'd gone they called in a part P "qualified" bloke who ripped it to bits. The switch was too near to the sink (probably about 500 to the drainer - 800 to the sink), the back box (surface plastic) had a couple of knockouts missing, Cable run inside a pipe boxing, and finally the bit that confused me was that the two inches of cable out of the wall and into the light was un protected.
In the close up shot I was impressed that the grey actually went right in to the fitting to say he was a cowboy.
So when you are wiring to an outside halogen flood light, especially when it is being retro fitted to an existing installation, how do you protect your twin and earth into the fitting?
To me is seems that the fella was just picking fault for the sake of it - don't get me wrong because i'm not saying it was right or that I would have done it like that, but If i'd been asked to look at it all after the event i'd be looking for size of the fuse, connections into the ring, spur and light fitting. and above all a test cert - none of which were mentioned.
Any thoughts?
They have asked the cowboy to install an outside flood light. so he's taken the lid of a pipe boxing, drilled out and put what looked like 1.5mm twin to a 150 halogen light. on the inside he's run the cable down the inside of the boxing, out through the side of the boxing in to a SFS that is fed from the washing machine socket below the work top.
After he'd gone they called in a part P "qualified" bloke who ripped it to bits. The switch was too near to the sink (probably about 500 to the drainer - 800 to the sink), the back box (surface plastic) had a couple of knockouts missing, Cable run inside a pipe boxing, and finally the bit that confused me was that the two inches of cable out of the wall and into the light was un protected.
In the close up shot I was impressed that the grey actually went right in to the fitting to say he was a cowboy.
So when you are wiring to an outside halogen flood light, especially when it is being retro fitted to an existing installation, how do you protect your twin and earth into the fitting?
To me is seems that the fella was just picking fault for the sake of it - don't get me wrong because i'm not saying it was right or that I would have done it like that, but If i'd been asked to look at it all after the event i'd be looking for size of the fuse, connections into the ring, spur and light fitting. and above all a test cert - none of which were mentioned.
Any thoughts?
