Not in good condition

[nickblake]

So who likes the old wooden backed wylex boards , well here the reason i hate them the one ive been out to today just fell apart riddled with wood worm , and another reason why i hate them is for the fact the fuse cover when removed exposes live terminals , and in so many case when people use a single plug in MCB they leave the covers off exposing the terminals , in this install i spotted a loose earth wire doing my pre checks it went to the left hand switch fuse which was the shower nice eh no cpc's in the lighting circuits and an 80 year olds owner so its up to me to sort it out no way i can rewire due to the the disruption it can cause so its up grade to the best i can so ive lowered the consumer unit and work is in progress

 

[High Tower]

Nice neat board there mate!!

 

[Top Cat]

Which is the before and after pic's? Lol

 

[nickblake]

Which is the before and after pic's? Lol

First ones the after pic

 

[Top Cat]

First ones the after pic

Bit more practice and you will be up to my standard then!

 

[nickblake]

just though id add before and the after pics

 

[Johnuk]

good job,

 

[Taylortwocities]

What make is that CU then? Didn't recognise the logo on the CBs??

 

[Des 56]

Nice neat board there nick

Here is the picture nick forgot to show

The cables needed jointing,he tried his best (poor man, you have to feel for him)

This was taken with the trunking lid removed
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:devilish:

 

[Richard Burns]

What make is that CU then? Didn't recognise the logo on the CBs??

M2 CEF own brand MK similar look

 

[Geordie Spark]

Nice neat board there nick

Here is the picture nick forgot to show

The cables needed jointing,he tried his best (poor man, you have to feel for him)

This was taken with the trunking lid removed
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:devilish:

That's a canny job that lyke

 

[Guest55]

M2 CEF own brand MK similar look

CEF ? bummer , they'll be obsolete next year then lol.

Oh and keep the coloured fuse-carrier covers from the old wylex , dead handy to have when making alterations to installs that dont include changing the board.

 

[nickblake]

Nice neat board there nick

Here is the picture nick forgot to show

The cables needed jointing,he tried his best (poor man, you have to feel for him)

This was taken with the trunking lid removed
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:devilish:

sorry des not mine mine had selotape round them , the board is a CEF M2 , im fussy about which board i use and have stopped using electrium boards for 2 reasons one the recall of the mcb's and 2 the poor quality of the internal wiring , them M2 board is nice and neat and ill be honest if you can get one thats intact they are not bad , how ever the breakers have a tab on the end and when i first did an RCD test they all fell off and i have to say i did laugh then complain but out of 10 i will give them a 7 , any other M2 product i will not use end of thanks for your comments guys

 

[Top Cat]

Fair play Nick, you have just posted what an electrician is all about. A good job and pride in your work! I think that what part P has given us is, as long as you can test you are a good electrician, absolute boll**ks, if you can do a job like that, you will do everything correct. Just because you can test does not mean you are a good electrician!

 

[Guitarist]

I like that website. Love this quote...
So make sure that you don't do any electrical wiring yourself (now illegal unless you are suitably qualified), and employ a fully qualified person to do it for you!

 

[keniff]

Nice! What did you use for all those joins on the cable?

 

[Engineer54]

I wonder if your new modern board, will last as long as those old Wylex CU's??
They too were state of the art, ...back in the early 50's...lol!!

 

[Taylortwocities]

So make sure that you don't do any electrical wiring yourself (now illegal unless you are suitably qualified), and employ a fully qualified person to do it for you!

This always make me smile......
[video=youtube;lZPqnizYRrA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZPqnizYRrA&feature=plcp[/video]

 

[nickblake]

I wonder if your new modern board, will last as long as those old Wylex CU's??
They too were state of the art, ...back in the early 50's...lol!!

think we all no the answer to that and that is no , the RCD's will go some time within the next 12 months and to be honest those old wylex boards were good , just the old wood worm was the death of this one

Thank you Top cat really appriciated that comment and yes i take alot of pride in my work , would love to see the passion back in the trade

 

[rugbyspark]

Congrats, nice job.
I think the Part P (Pretend Elects) has been the death of good workmanship, no proper training in the school of hard knocks and silly mistakes, plus there's not so much heavy industry to learn in.
I did 5yrs in steel industry where we had 6 months in all depts, excellent facilities.