Non Registered Spark wiring NewBuild

[LED Lighting]

Hi all
Went to a Newly Built Granny-Flat last week on behalf of MK's Switch Exchange Program
Opened the CU to find

• spaghetti Junction,
• No Labels,
• Tails half out of Main Switch,
• 16mm SWA on a run of 50m
• SWA Armor not earthed
• PME brought over from main house
• 50A MCB and RCD protecting SWA
• 3 x 8.5kW Showers in Granny Flat - (Don't know why 3)
• No Bonding anywhere

Certificates:

• No Property Name
• Customer was the building company
• Ze results mixed with Zs results
• Non-Body Certs
• No Signature on bottom of Certs

Gave the Electrician a call - details found in designer section only - asked for his registration number - reply "C&G 2382 and C&G 2391 I think!"

Asked for NAPIT, NICEIC, etc - reply what are they!

He recalls wiring the house - he didn't know he had to be registered


Called LABC - their reply:

• No Building Control Certification
• No Building Control Notice for Electrics
• No Building Control Notice for Gas
• No Building Control Notice for Insulation
• No Building Control Notice for Windows
• No Building Control Notice for ANYTHING!
• Only thing they could find was Planning Permission which the customer applied for

Customer spent £85,000 for this build

Electrician is from Manchester Area - Worked down in Pembrokeshire, Wales on this one job
I don't know if I can post the name of the construction company or Electrician - MODs advise please

 

[Plonker 3]

So really the only issue is that LABC haven't been informed of the work. There are thousands of jobs like this all over the country.

 

[LED Lighting]

The issue is his Craftsmanship and no-compliant work

 

[Plonker 3]

Craftsmanship although it sounds rough, it is obviously still compliant with the regs.

 

[telectrix]

the building is subject to planning control anyway, so the electrician does not need to be with niceic, elecsa etc. as long as LABC are satisfied he's competent, all that's needed is for LABC to receive a copy of the EIC. as for the problems with the installation itself, that's another issue.

 

[LED Lighting]

• No Labels
• Tails half out of Main Switch
• 16mm SWA on a run of 50m
• SWA Armor not earthed
• PME brought over from main house
• 50A MCB and RCD protecting SWA
• 3 x 8.5kW Showers in Granny Flat
• No Bonding anywhere

How are any of these complaint? - im sure I dont need to quote regs they dont comply with


Same goes for the EIC - Not worth the paper its written on!

 

[Plonker 3]

Did you price the job and not get it by any chance?

 

[LED Lighting]

Nope - Like I said - I went in to change the Main Switch for MK - Through it would be a good discussion on here

 

[Plonker 3]

• No Labels
• Tails half out of Main Switch
• 16mm SWA on a run of 50m
• SWA Armor not earthed
• PME brought over from main house
• 50A MCB and RCD protecting SWA
• 3 x 8.5kW Showers in Granny Flat
• No Bonding anywhere

How are any of these complaint? - im sure I dont need to quote regs they dont comply with


Same goes for the EIC - Not worth the paper its written on!

No labels- hardly going too do any harm to anyone is it
TAils not terminated properly- so the rest of the live parts in the DB are all fully enclosed?
16mm SWA- What problem here?
SWA Not earthed- Is the SWA used as a CPC? or is it run where it needs to earthed?
PME- DNO responsibility? Although no problem with extending it
50 MCB- sounds like it is doing its job properly
3 showers- No problem here
No bonding- are there any extraneous conductive parts?

So aside from the top 2 pretty compliant so far unless you answer the questions I have asked

 

[Plonker 3]

Nope - Like I said - I went in to change the Main Switch for MK - Through it would be a good discussion on here

Why has the original contractor not been asked to this if it's a new build?