just found on ebay

[BillyH]

Kids or foreign folk who are happy with £5 a day tto feed themselves! Banging them out in one day is clever though takes me 1 day to get my routes planned and start wiring! Lol

Wages ain't so good these days (probably down to 50k) but i have personally made over 90k pa doing contract rewires and, you can switch your phone of at the week end

 

[SPARTYKUS]

BillyHas

I'm very pleased for you!!!!

 

[BillyH]

BillyHas

I'm very pleased for you!!!!

useful

 

[imago]

OK, so how does it go with teams doing contract rewires? I'm not taking the Mick, or saying it can't be done, just curious. How many in the team, who does what sort of thing.

 

[telectrix]

What happened to safe isolation? that board is powered up and the lid is off, tut tut tut.

so, what's the point of having an insulated busbar. to stop mice getting shocks?

 

[thekingiam]

who ever did that board couldn't afford a padsaw or spirit level by the look of the way they have chewed up the plasterboard above the cu.also i don't like all the debris left at the bottom of cu, or the floral wallpaper but i suppose thats only my taste.

 

[Des 56]

OK, so how does it go with teams doing contract rewires? I'm not taking the Mick, or saying it can't be done, just curious. How many in the team, who does what sort of thing.


Ok see if you can imagine and try and follow this routine

Spark No 1 working downstairs
Spark No 2 wiring the property
Mate,laborer,2nd fixer.guy on less money than the other 2, call him what you will,for now he is No 3

Start
No 1 strips out the old mains and fits a ready made temp supply board
Spark 2 goes upstairs and starts moving furniture and carpets up,assisted by No 3

No 1 starts fitting trunking that's required for all of downstairs.
No 3 strips out old stuff down and up
No 2 gets boards up and drills the beams

No 3 jumps up and wires the attic
No 2 starts wiring under the boards
No 1 continues trunking

No 3 2nd fixes the attic
No 2 has cables prepared to drop down,he gets the cables up to the uostairs positions
(No 3 may delay 2nd fixing the attic to fish these cables downstairs to their positions for No 2
No 1 continues trunking

3 hours or so have gone and the attic is almost complete
The downstairs is almost trunked
The wiring is all but installed

No 3 finishes attic 2nd fix
No 2 starts relaying floorboards ready to 2nd fix the upstairs sockets
No 1 continues trunking and now putting lids on where the cables are now ready

No 3 finishes attic and starts on the downstairs 2nd fixing
No 2 starts 2nd fixing his upstairs sockets
No 1 continues trunking and putting lids on

6 hours has passed perhaps because they may have stopped momentarilly for a quick cup of tea(a dinner break is very rare)

No 1 is now fitting the consumer unit
No 2 is now cleaning upstairs and putting furniture back because its all 2nd fixed
No 3 is carrying on 2nd fixing the downstairs

A very short while later
No 2 is now downstairs helping finishing off 2nd fix with No 3
No 1 (who has completed the consumer unit) is helping

Power goes on ,check for correct working of sockets lights etc
Holes being patched with a filler of some sort
One man is loading the gear thats not needed onto the van,job almost done

By the way before testing is mentioned,this can be done very easily as the rewire progresses
Example, upstairs ring.last socket,test the continuity of the conductors,figure of 8,probably never done,Zs at each socket at the end of job
Many firms, if not most firms, rely on the bang test, the actual testing was done by the likes of me going in after the job was completed

They work very hard and believe me,most do the job very well
There are always all sorts in all jobs and some may be excellent, others I wouldn't trust putting up a shelf

The system completely disregards bs 7671 test procedures for safe use of the installation,but it works,it keeps the price down.it pays the guys very well indeed, and it needs young fit skilled sparks to handle it

 

[Guitarist]

My Grandad had a similar experience back in the 70's when he bought a house. Gang came in, bish bash bosh, job done super-fast.
When it got dark that night his living room light wouldn't turn on, so he phoned the firm the next morning.... Turned out that despite a checklist he'd been given by the foreman confirming all circuits tested and working, there was no cabling at all to the living room lighting pendants! Great story he still enjoys telling

 

[thekingiam]

the actual testing was done by the likes of me going in after the job was completed

so you sign off other peoples work after they have put floor boards down,left an unqualified mate do alot of the work .no mention of cable calculations do you check this on inspection or has it been done before hand? are the householders left with unchecked work until it is inspected?

 

[robsparky1975]

i expect the cert was a 3 signature and des was the inspector & tester,so only liable for the testing.