Todays job

[soulman]

Went to install a few extra sockets into dado trunking in an office, nice easy one for a saturday morning. Checked ring continuity at first socket to tap into ring, no continuity, went on to discover spurs off spurs big style, 6 sockets spurred off ring on one side of office, 7 spurred off ring on other side and two spurred off other side, all installed by an niceic approved contractor. This wasn't picked up on a recent periodic either.

 

[ipf]

Must have been the same contractor doing the inspection then. Cowboy.

 

[swparksey]

No counting for ability, ignorance is bliss.

 

[trev]

Drive by periodics mate, you got to love some people's ideas of what's acceptable

 

[MKS]

Nothing is ever easy on a Saturday morning. You can guarantee you will run into problems that take hours rather than minutes :-(

 

[Geordie Spark]

Nothing is ever easy on a Saturday morning. You can guarantee you will run into problems that take hours rather than minutes :-(

We in the trade know this as Sod's Law. :yes:

 

[telectrix]

calculate you load. probably quite low, computers etc. if load will allow, change breaker for a 20A. sorted.

 

[Welchyboy]

^^^^^+1

 

[soulman]

The load is low but would need to seperate the circuits, as i was taught circuits should not be connected together.

 

[telectrix]

might be a good idea to split into 2 radials. but a RFC on a 20A with spurs is compliant.

 

[Jimmy Boy]

If there is a lot of potentially leaky equipment in that room you might want to consider high integrity earthing if it's radials just a thought