Garage electrics help needed please

[Specialist]

I would willingly buy you and Tel a pint or two, but you aint having any of my Staropramen, that would mean I would have to wait until Friday for a re-supply

Very nice of you Pete & I'm sure we'd happily return the favour.

 

[LankyWill]

Lanky, when I said I'm new to the trade, I'm an apprentice only a few months in so have next to no experience.

Specialist, the 2.5 supply is taken from the loads side of the 100amp isolator.

No worries lad, it was worded as if you were an electrician but had never done any domestic installs. With the amount of chancers we get around here, i was just probing. Stick your apprenticeship out and tell your mate to get a Qualified electrician in not a trained monkey. Might be a chance for you to watch and learn from the bloke putting the abortion right.

 

[Octopus]

So no cert, presumably no Part P and presumably the bill has been paid.

Best you advise your "friend" to get it re-done and done properly..

 

[Midwest]

Nope, I get a competent electrician in, and take the original bod to small claims and inform the industry policing regulator.....oh yeah, remember now, we haven't got one

 

[Octopus]

Nope, I get a competent electrician in, and take the original bod to small claims and inform the industry policing regulator.....oh yeah, remember now, we haven't got one

If there's no invoice, maybe a call to HMRC and trading standards....

 

[Jacko]

Just been to speak to him, the man charged him £230 for the work.

He asked for a cert so he is dropping one around in the morning??

Also I looked again in the electric cupboard where the meter is and the 100a isolator, it looks like he has cut the main Earth coming from the western power supply and put it in a connector block, then taken a new 10mm earth to the 100a isolator so he has an earth there for his 2.5 twin and earth cable to supply the shed. I've read that the main Earth can't be cut and should be continuous??

 

[Midwest]

Pictures paint a thousand words.

 

[Octopus]

Just been to speak to him, the man charged him £230 for the work.

He asked for a cert so he is dropping one around in the morning??

Also I looked again in the electric cupboard where the meter is and the 100a isolator, it looks like he has cut the main Earth coming from the western power supply and put it in a connector block, then taken a new 10mm earth to the 100a isolator so he has an earth there for his 2.5 twin and earth cable to supply the shed. I've read that the main Earth can't be cut and should be continuous??

The MET can be positioned as you describe, but post a picture for clarity

 

[Jacko]

 

[Octopus]

^^ oh dear.....

 

[Wilko]

^^^ Wot M said

 

[Pete999]

Jeez what a mess, words fail me, whoever did that wants shooting

 

[Specialist]

Good pictures, but think Murdoch said it all in 2 small words.

No seals on the service head ?

So he's cut the Earth and used an ordinary connector wrapped in tape ?.

 

[Jacko]

Yeah it looks like he has done that. I'm not even sure if he has used a connector block, I haven't touched it to take the tape off!

Does the main incoming earth need to be continuous? With no joints etc

 

[Pete999]

What's with the red tape on the Live outgoing conductor? also ruined the IP rating of the isolator.

 

[Midwest]

The warning notice did a lot of good. Get your mate to get a competent electrician in, even if it's just to disconnect that mess.

PS; the 'tails' to the CU look a bit suspect as well. Nicely fashioned hole for them as well.

 

[Octopus]

That picture should be submitted to PE "caught on camera"

 

[Midwest]

Looks like the 'seal fairy' paid a visit as well.

 

[Specialist]

@Jacko If he was going to cut into the Earth like that, he should have used a proper block to make the connection. But with the way everything else has been done, it's only to be expected.
That 2.5 has no protection at all, so in the event of a fault the cable may well fry.
There's no RCD protection so in the event of someone touching something that has become live, basically they're going to get Electrocuted. (Read as: Likely DEAD).

One of the boys asked where he'd left his horse, to be honest I wouldn't insult Cowboy's by calling him one.

 

[telectrix]

camel might be more appropriate than horse.