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I've been doing quite a lot of work in a nice house for the last 3 days, bought by a retired lady and her son last Autumn and I was recommended after they'd had a N####C A/C in a few months ago.
The biggest job was lowering the C/U to a sensible accessible height, the previous 'Electrician' has fitted a new MK unit in the same position [up close to the ceiling in the garage] as the old Wylex because 'It has to be there for safety and to comply with the law' ! More like making life easy I suspect.
The certificate for this work was entertaining, every insulation resistance reading in the house 200 Megohms and R1 & R2 on a doorbell transformer feed about a foot long of 0.5 ohms for example. No part P notification either ! There was also a 2.5mm socket radial on a B32 with a Zs of 1.4 ohms. In fact there were a multitude of bodges where this chap had been throughout the house, but I won't bore you all with that.
It just frustrates and winds me up that this sort of thing seems so common now and the decent tradesmen who work really hard and always do their best have to compete with these idiots.
Anyway here's a couple of before and after pictures.
The biggest job was lowering the C/U to a sensible accessible height, the previous 'Electrician' has fitted a new MK unit in the same position [up close to the ceiling in the garage] as the old Wylex because 'It has to be there for safety and to comply with the law' ! More like making life easy I suspect.
The certificate for this work was entertaining, every insulation resistance reading in the house 200 Megohms and R1 & R2 on a doorbell transformer feed about a foot long of 0.5 ohms for example. No part P notification either ! There was also a 2.5mm socket radial on a B32 with a Zs of 1.4 ohms. In fact there were a multitude of bodges where this chap had been throughout the house, but I won't bore you all with that.
It just frustrates and winds me up that this sort of thing seems so common now and the decent tradesmen who work really hard and always do their best have to compete with these idiots.
Anyway here's a couple of before and after pictures.