New Electrical Install Question

[telectrix]

as above. that is totally beyond the pale. bodged and dangerous. you need a qualified.competent spark on site immediately to explain what's wrong. stop any further work by these cowboys immediately.

 

[GMES]

Ok any members interested in helping out, please Pm Asosoon and come to some arrangement. Sooner rather than later by the look of that wiring.

 

[tomspark93]

That is shocking workmanship (if you can even call it that)

 

[Pete999]

I would be willing to have a look, but time and distance have taken theit toll, sorry

 

[westward10]

I think there is a few of us who like to be near Mitcham tomorrow to help, sadly I am not.

 

[GMES]

I have placed a link to this thread in the jobs section so hopefully the op will get someone she can trust to do the job correctly.

 

[Asosoon]

Cheers guys.

I'm glad I followed my gut instinct and decided to ask for advice. I really appreciate all your comments.

 

[The Ghost]

I would still be interested to know if he is member of competent person scheme?

 

[1Justin]

Awful workmanship, It’s that sort of thing which, with some certainty, will cause an unfortunate future electrician to need to tear the ceiling down to find faults. Every one of those joints and junctions is wrong in more ways than one.

And I’d take them up not only on the electrics, but in the manner that those insulation blocks aren’t vapour sealed or even foamed in. Particularly so since this will be a bathroom. Humid room side air behind the plasterboard will find its way to the cold side of the blocks via those open slots, and can condense out there. This also means that if the cold side is ventilated (or with modern construction as it should be, a vapour permeable sealed membrane above above), cold air can circulate to the warm side, removing the benefits of much of that insulation. (Small builders , much like your “electrician”, sadly aren’t members of “competent persons” schemes). You could partially fix this with foil backed plasterboard, but since there will be holes in it for downlights, that rather defeats the object.

Gaps should be foam filled, and the whole lot taped over to restore the vapour barrier. Of course this leads to a problem with the electrics, since there seems to be no service void in the system, and nowhere to put cables. - That comes back down to the lack of intelligence in the design made by the builder in the first place.

 

[Midwest]

Okay lets not all have nightmares, its all fixable. OP just get your local friendly building inspector in to have a gander. In the meantime, can someone throw another log under the hot tub, its getting a bit lukewarm.