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killing a wet-pants ain't a crime, it's a service to humankind.
Thanks chaps
To be brutally honest, it scared the carp out of me when I got there and saw it. From now on I don't think I'll be quite so intimidated by central heating wiring.
Bit of a mixed bag today though, had my first *BANG*. Replacing a light fitting for a landlord customer in one of her rentals, connected up, Zs was sweet, attached to ceiling, put the lights in and turn it on *BANG*. Looks like sharp edges cut into the poxy little cables running to the fittings. Suffice to say a ceiling rose is going up next week before I do an EICR on the place (no reason to do one other than she's not had one done on that property so she wants to get her paperwork in order).
And to top it off, I got rear ended in traffic crossing the bridge into Penarth on the way to this heating job, so a really mixed bag
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Only if he turns blue and dies... if I keep a check on his pulse and release a little when his pulse gets weak I should be alright
So, I've just started doing some work for a local plumbing firm. Got a call this morning "can you come and install a wireless thermostat". Yeah no problem I think. Get to the site and apparently this system is fully installed and working.
This was what I found in the wiring center.
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On the basis of that fine piece of work, I decided to dig a little deeper.
The full list of faults went like this:-
I don't do a lot of heating wiring, but I can follow a wiring diagram.
- No earth from the FCU supplying the heating
- Existing wireless thermostat was not connected - Cables were twisted together behind it's mounting socket... bare, no tape
- No demand connections to the boiler only the power supply - The demand control link was still in place so this thing has been running since it was turned on maintaining the temperature of the bypass loop
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Not bad for my third attempt at central heating wiring if I do say so myself. Still room for improvement, but it all works as it should through a wireless programmer and a pair of wireless thermostats (one remote for the cylinder and one for a room). And I got a decent Zs at the boiler, so it's a winner
It looks like the two oranges are separate, that's a tad unusual?
How did you get over the lack of cord grips?
I was originally going to have them feed a single demand connection, but the boiler is pretty clever, has a nice LCD on the front with a fancy menu driven control system. It has two demand inputs central heating and hot water, so I used the two. The boiler LCD then tells the customer what is demanding heat.
As for the cord grips, just clipped the cables very well after ascertaining what was going to be happening to that area of the house. Currently it's open but it is going to be boxed in. It's in a corner of a room. Opposite the wiring centre is a big hot water store and there are numerous pipes and things between the wall and that store. It's all going to be boxed in.
Not ideal I know, but I wasn't going there to rewire the thing, just to connect a wireless thermostat. Had I been to see the job before hand and known it was that bad I would have picked up a new wiring centre. It's an item that is going on my stock list
I'd be interested to see how well 'I know it's not quite right but I've left it safer than when I arrived' works as a defence in court.
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