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Will find some
Have to be careful though, I had to get the last lot I posted removed because Enviro Health decided to prosecute the "owner of said tested install".
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Paul.M
A "professional" company's idea of a c/u change? They gave me 2 hours to run a new cooker circuit, 2 x FCU's in the kitchen with chasing out and "sort out" /wire up the cu?????
Cu not straight, half on half off the back board, rats nest of cables resting on the incomer and gas pipe! New bonding and main earth to rod could have been done by Picasso. O the only straight bit is my 6mm t+e at the top. I no longer work for them!
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Think it's more salvador dali..... No tell a lie Escher
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Knobhead
Just one from the industrial side. This switch board was so rotten it fell over when I tried to turn a switch off. Try being the operative word, it took me 3 days to get in to it to change a bl**dy fuse.
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Engineer54
Hahaha!! haven't seen switchboards like that since i first started in the industry, ....and they were replaced before any chance of working on them, along with all the old MV oil breakers!!!
I bet there are still a good few of them about too, in the older but cleaner, and less corrosive factories...
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BOROROBBO
just some i have came accross in the last few months:
This one was a property i had done lots of work in and required a full domestic so i knew everything was fine since i had left it. a month later and the tennant moves in and complains of a tripping RCD. turned out after i had done my work in there the boarders had been in and put new ceilings up (screwed new boards over old ceiling instead of ripping old ceiling down first) the result was things like this on 3 different legs of 2 circuits!
This one was just a reported high CPC reading on kitchen ring and discovered it while doing a kitchen rewire
This was my favourite to date. it was a house of horrors, DIY EVERYWHERE, with end to end readings being far too low for the size of the house on down ring. low IR's all over the place on 4-5 of the circuits. after tracing cables all over the house i discovered this (to be fair to whoever had done it, before i took this photo the junction box (without lid) was insulated.................. with a carrier bag!)
These are just random ones that haven't caused much harm:
shaver point, cables boarded tight against backbox
just take the pipe right across where my boiler spur is going why dont you!!!
the cable was glanded and and into the DB (wholesaler was waiting on cleats coming in at the time) so the joiner decided the cable would look better over the top of his shelf rather than against the wall. (also, kewtech testers, which you can see in pic, worst tester i have ever used)
hope you enjoyed them, i will update with more as i get them haha
This one was a property i had done lots of work in and required a full domestic so i knew everything was fine since i had left it. a month later and the tennant moves in and complains of a tripping RCD. turned out after i had done my work in there the boarders had been in and put new ceilings up (screwed new boards over old ceiling instead of ripping old ceiling down first) the result was things like this on 3 different legs of 2 circuits!
This one was just a reported high CPC reading on kitchen ring and discovered it while doing a kitchen rewire
This was my favourite to date. it was a house of horrors, DIY EVERYWHERE, with end to end readings being far too low for the size of the house on down ring. low IR's all over the place on 4-5 of the circuits. after tracing cables all over the house i discovered this (to be fair to whoever had done it, before i took this photo the junction box (without lid) was insulated.................. with a carrier bag!)
These are just random ones that haven't caused much harm:
shaver point, cables boarded tight against backbox
just take the pipe right across where my boiler spur is going why dont you!!!
the cable was glanded and and into the DB (wholesaler was waiting on cleats coming in at the time) so the joiner decided the cable would look better over the top of his shelf rather than against the wall. (also, kewtech testers, which you can see in pic, worst tester i have ever used)
hope you enjoyed them, i will update with more as i get them haha
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hamish mcchlery
this just some of the faults on this job, u may need to look closely. If you have GOT to use trunking at least make it neat!
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This is the fault I traced following a kitchen installation by a general kitchen fitter.......
luckily i had a cable tracer on me that day and the house had an RCD, even one for
the whole house. Guy had told the customer that it would stop tripping out when
the wall dried out !!!!
Then I looked at the connection behind the cooker...........
Then at the connection to the cooker itself..............
luckily i had a cable tracer on me that day and the house had an RCD, even one for
the whole house. Guy had told the customer that it would stop tripping out when
the wall dried out !!!!
Then I looked at the connection behind the cooker...........
Then at the connection to the cooker itself..............
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This is a light fitting that I came across that had been recently fitted by 'an electrician friend'.......
Notice the blue sleeving on the switched live, the connector blocks that are not rated for the temparature, the 'green only' sleeving to the cpc's. but best of all the way they didn't connect the cpc to the earth terminal at all and this was in a bathroom !!!
Notice the blue sleeving on the switched live, the connector blocks that are not rated for the temparature, the 'green only' sleeving to the cpc's. but best of all the way they didn't connect the cpc to the earth terminal at all and this was in a bathroom !!!
Aren't those kewtech testers just the good old robins rebuilt? I use robins all the time, they are pretty ancient but still going strong, I have the luxury of de-lock on my loop tester!
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BOROROBBO
yeh as far as im aware its the same just a different name. they were good until i discovered a megger
Correct... Building regs
The Wiring Regs just state the accessory must be fit for purpose / location etc
Yes, noticed that. Lots of discussion about that kind of thing - asked NICEIC inspector about it on last assessment - he said leave it alone. Asked him about requesting change to PME to overcome the problem - he reckoned TNS with 951 clamp and acceptable Ze is always preferable to PME. Who am I to disagree?
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londonlec
As far as I'm aware/concerned, that end of the earthing conductor is outside of our responsibility.
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BillyTheSparks
Found this buried in the wall (it's for a boiler supply)
These two were for some light fittings in a shop. (The H&S bloke wired them)
Changed a cooker for a client, this is what I found behind the connector plate. The lady of the house wired it 5yrs previously
Brown tape for the earth
Cut pieces of pvc insulation to cover the over stripped inner insulation
Twist the earth back together as it's a bit too short!
These two were for some light fittings in a shop. (The H&S bloke wired them)
Changed a cooker for a client, this is what I found behind the connector plate. The lady of the house wired it 5yrs previously
Brown tape for the earth
Cut pieces of pvc insulation to cover the over stripped inner insulation
Twist the earth back together as it's a bit too short!
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