Had a cracker of a job today

[Strima]

I would like to say I'm gobsmacked, but I'm not. Nothing surprises me now but it still gets my blood pressure up...

How many threads/posts have we had on dodgy installs in the last couple of weeks?

 

[robsparky1975]

Testing whats that?,who would be able to id a circuit in that mess,good job there are real electricians around to takes care of such rubbish.

 

[Guitarist]

They spent 3k on a rewire earlier this year. Not a single cable entering the CU is new, not only because they're all the old colours, but they're all still painted up in emulsion paint. Then I find no bonding to either gas or water and only half the new CU has RCD protection.

Not sure if I'm missing something here, but those cables look brown and blue to me...

 

[trev]

One question arises. If they have had a rewire were there not signs that one had been carried out such as a few more sockets dotted around, new sockets switches and light fittings, sockets in different places from where they were originally, chases waiting to be plastered/new plaster on chases etc etc?
Every rewire I have ever carried out has resulted in all of the aforementioned. I appreciate that the "victims" were not clued up electrically but surely there must have been signs.
Actually that's a few questions really isn't it?

 

[Swicade]

Guitarist makes a pretty good point there (post #13)......unless there's a big joint box with all circuits extended to a new CU position...Everything else is a mess and trash though

 

[Amp David]

I'll stake £50 that there is a fault on one of the circuits 'protected' by this 63A MCB!!!

So did I and the DNO chap.

But when the DNO chap stuck a temp up front RCD in it held, so god only knows

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Not sure if I'm missing something here, but those cables look brown and blue to me...

Hes over sleeved 99% the originals in the CU. I think he might of extended a few.

 

[Amp David]

I hope the customer is there to ask (if the cowboy does show up) how the new cables look just the same as the original. I'm sure there is a term for taking money for work you haven't actually done....

This is what angers me the most. Its the customer who actually got him on the phone yesterday. To me it sound like its a mate of his and rather than give his mate grief, he'd rather just us do our bit and leave the other crap as is.

MADNESS:banghead:

 

[ipf]

This is what angers me the most. Its the customer who actually got him on the phone yesterday. To me it sound like its a mate of his and rather than give his mate grief, he'd rather just us do our bit and leave the other crap as is.

MADNESS:banghead:

Good mate then ?

 

[timbobelfast]

You clearly don't get much for 3 grand these days...................

At least Dick Turpin wore a mask!

 

[Amp David]

Good mate then ?

Yeah, just what I thought