Don't you just love easy jobs on Saturdays

[High Tower]

snJust got home.


Absolute nightmare of a job. Only fitted 4 security lights but was in an old peoples home. Never ever work in one!!!


All security lights on PIR's. Cheap B&Q lights. £8 or so. Getting the settings right is an absolute bugger of a job! Especially when you have half the home walking round the garden when you're trying to set them.


One of them days were it took me 5 or 6 attemps to fish the cable through from interior to exterior because of those damn voids inbetween bricks. (no rods with me) Ended up using a piece of earth wire and tape to fish through in the end.


Bloody starving I am.....



Nightmare

Im dissapointed, i thought a man of your integrity would slieve the wall before passing a cable with no mech protection through. I ALWAYS slieve a wall up with a short length of 20mm conduit, angled to prevent water ingress with a grommit on the outside, suppose it also makes it a piece of cake to pass cables through the void.

 

[Electricalserv]

Im dissapointed, i thought a man of your integrity would slieve the wall before passing a cable with no mech protection through. I ALWAYS slieve a wall up with a short length of 20mm conduit, angled to prevent water ingress with a grommit on the outside, suppose it also makes it a piece of cake to pass cables through the void.

Why would it need mechanical protection when its on an rcd....rubbish that my friend....

 

[telectrix]

protection from those little polystyrene pellets that react with the pvc cable. and also prevents chafing on the masonry. still, won't be a problem before you get paid.

 

[Electricalserv]

protection from those little polystyrene pellets that react with the pvc cable. and also prevents chafing on the masonry. still, won't be a problem before you get paid.

What regs that then?

 

[johnthesparky]

Went to test it and found some genius has twisted the earth cables of the kitchen ring together at the board. I needed to remove 8 of the 10 breakers and pull out all the cables so I could test it.

could you not have tested the ring continuity at the socket instead of taking the board apart? or from the socket that fed it, if you extended to a spur.... and you could cross couple at that point also, then you could just confirm the values were correct at the board to prove the ring

 

[electromonkey]

could you not have tested the ring continuity at the socket instead of taking the board apart? or from the socket that fed it, if you extended to a spur.... and you could cross couple at that point also, then you could just confirm the values were correct at the board to prove the ring

I could have done that but was in such a rage that I had complete tunnel vision!! The reality of what I'd done (or not as the case may be) hit me a couple of hours later. What a tool!

 

[johnthesparky]

I could have done that but was in such a rage that I had complete tunnel vision!! The reality of what I'd done (or not as the case may be) hit me a couple of hours later. What a tool!

we've all been there I reckon, that moment whilst driving home or eating your tea..... and then a big D'OH!