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I fully agree
however dodgy workers can never be stopped. thats a fact of life ! lol
but at least registered tradesmen will at least have a knowledge of how it should be done.
You'd be suprised at the amount of bulders/plasterers /brickies that THINK they can do 'lectrics' round my area, is where most of my work comes from.
Customer awareness is the key . today i atteneded a EICR and removed a dangerous situation where 5 sockets in a conservatory were supplied via 1.5 twin ( not t+e) .
when loading up the van i saw through the window the guy reconnecting it . he had done all the wiring himself, hence the 3 pages of observations.
The rewire I am carrying out at the moment has been an eye-opener for me. I have seen many cases of DIY electrics over the years, but the sheer scale of what the previous owner did is unbelievable...
Spurs off spurs off spurs...cables changing size several times supplying many different types of equipment....literally dozens of JB's, none of which have the sheath entering them...cpc's cut off outside the JB's...the list goes on.