I'm thinking of suing can he go bankrupt?

[OMGAMISTUFFED]

Awful time of a new installation by an idiot! He spent most of his time with his phone attached to his ear held between his shoulder and face!
The "dead man's switch" was put on back to front, so when the door was opened NOTHING got turned off!
He cut off all the earth wires to 240V metal lights at floor level and in window boards (uplights)
No Grommets in Main fuse box, cut out the top of the box in a really jagged way and then attached a bit of tape around the cutout.
Armoured cable left exposed at the ends.
Earth wires twisted together with no sheathing.
Switches with wires going nowhere!
Cables inserted into fuses but not tightened in with the end of the cable running outside and also in one of the cupboards.
Charged me "mates Rates" at £350 a day, arrived at ten, had coffee and a smoke, had lunch at one and buggered off at 2 so he could pick up his kids!
The list goes on....O'h and ran a cable over the joist, only found that one when the plumber had to move the bath slightly and nearly cut through it!
I seriously want to run him over.....Joking...!!!!
Any ideas on how to get him to pay for the work that has had to be carried out by a qualified electrician, we're up to possibly 2- 2.5 grand so far. Everything has had to be checked where it's going to and from....Nothing written on any wiring. Mains box taken off the wall and re-wired.
Can he just go bankrupt and walk away?? GRRRRRRRR.... can you tell I'm not happy...!
Cheers everyone.

 

[freddo]

That switch fuse is disastrous, imagine a fault blowing 1 or more fuses and the user attempting to replace the fuses. Hardly a simple mistake, gross negligence and massive incompetence. Receiving a shock from 2 phases often causes deep and horrific burns.

 

[davesparks]

. Receiving a shock from 2 phases often causes deep and horrific burns.

You're lucky if that's all it causes.

Other side effects include painful death

 

[Vortigern]

We have seen that fuse box incorrectly wired before in another post, as it should be wired behind the bus bar covers.

 

[JBW175]

We have seen that fuse box incorrectly wired before in another post, as it should be wired behind the bus bar covers.

I’m sure I’ve seen it doing the rounds across other social media platforms on various pages too, over the last couple of weeks.

 

[OMGAMISTUFFED]

That switch fuse is disastrous, imagine a fault blowing 1 or more fuses and the user attempting to replace the fuses. Hardly a simple mistake, gross negligence and massive incompetence. Receiving a shock from 2 phases often causes deep and horrific burns.

Freddo...I LOVE YOU A LOT!!!! Thank you for confirming what my new electrician said when he saw it.....shocked to the core...or I would have been if I had touched it.
PS...I'm a girly by the way...don't panic!!! hahaha

 

[Ray Pooley]

Freddo...I LOVE YOU A LOT!!!! Thank you for confirming what my new electrician said when he saw it.....shocked to the core...or I would have been if I had touched it.
PS...I'm a girly by the way...don't panic!!! hahaha

Seems to me commissioning an independent EICR might have been to be a good place to start before you began any remedial work. Memorialize it in an official document. It may still be useful.

 

[grumpyjohn01]

It's back to front....he's wired it in around the wrong way. When the handle is used and the door opened it doesn't cut the current!
He got another fella to sign it off....he's been back and took the board to bits and put it all back again....HAD to didn't he!

Hasn't he just wired the incoming and outgoing cables straight across the fuses rather than through the isolator?

 

[OMGAMISTUFFED]

Not sure, but there are SO many things that have had to be re-wrired. There are cables stuffed through sharp edges and so the copper wire has been exposed. We are still working through everything, Two many light switches in one place and so I've had to fill in the space left. I had already decorated the hallway! Light switches too close together and so the top plates don't fit. The list goes on, it's almost funny hearing the electrician fixing his mistakes as I can hear him swearing and calling him names....

 

[plugsandsparks]

On a recent job to fit a TP meter, i went to the local site isolator, turned it off and walked back to the site and low and beyond the power was still on...... opened the isolator cover to find exactly what the OP had.
I , a bit like the OP, not easily disturbed but i was so surprised to find ANYONE would actually wire an isolator that way that i could not rest until i had formally informed the duty holder, got him to confirm all site electricians were aware of it and begged for it to be sorted, unfortunately the whole extended site needed to be turned off as the incoming tails were feed from main busbar. Anyway all sorted and i managed to fit the meter, .........

 

[ipf]

Hasn't he just wired the incoming and outgoing cables straight across the fuses rather than through the isolator?

That had been noted a month ago.

First time I've seen this thread....what a disgrace some so-called electricians are!

But......with any job, things need doing properly from the start.
With one like this, I'd be looking at a specification and quotes.

 

[Julie.]

Hasn't he just wired the incoming and outgoing cables straight across the fuses rather than through the isolator?

Yes

So the fuses are always live and the only way to switch off at that "isolator" is either blow the fuse or physically disconnect the live conductors!!!

 

[OMGAMISTUFFED]

On a recent job to fit a TP meter, i went to the local site isolator, turned it off and walked back to the site and low and beyond the power was still on...... opened the isolator cover to find exactly what the OP had.
I , a bit like the OP, not easily disturbed but i was so surprised to find ANYONE would actually wire an isolator that way that i could not rest until i had formally informed the duty holder, got him to confirm all site electricians were aware of it and begged for it to be sorted, unfortunately the whole extended site needed to be turned off as the incoming tails were feed from main busbar. Anyway all sorted and i managed to fit the meter, .........

Amazes me how they get away with it, call themselves SPARKS....hmmmm....I wouldn't be able to hold my head up high if I knew I couldn't do a job properly, why do they take on a job if they know they can't handle it? Either damn stupid or so full of their self esteem. Pride comes before a fall eh...or maybe a dead person!!!!

 

[Rockingit]

Amazes me how they get away with it, call themselves SPARKS....hmmmm....I wouldn't be able to hold my head up high if I knew I couldn't do a job properly, why do they take on a job if they know they can't handle it? Either damn stupid or so full of their self esteem. Pride comes before a fall eh...or maybe a dead person!!!!

Sadly, the tip of the iceberg. Don't get us started on how it's actually possible to spend as little as a week in a classroom, take a 40 question multiple choice/guess online quiz that my dog could pass (I'm not going to call it an exam!) - with ZERO prior experience - and then tout yourself as an 'electrician'......... A subject so divisive we've a gentlemans/moderators agreement to stop discussing them on here!!

 

[littlespark]

A subject so divisive we've a gentlemans/moderators agreement to stop discussing them on here!!

That's gone a bit Schrodingers Cat, hasnt it???

 

[OMGAMISTUFFED]

Sadly, the tip of the iceberg. Don't get us started on how it's actually possible to spend as little as a week in a classroom, take a 40 question multiple choice/guess online quiz that my dog could pass (I'm not going to call it an exam!) - with ZERO prior experience - and then tout yourself as an 'electrician'......... A subject so divisive we've a gentlemans/moderators agreement to stop discussing them on here!!

REALLY.....I might apply then!!! hahaha.

 

[OMGAMISTUFFED]

That's gone a bit Schrodingers Cat, hasnt it???

Way above my head! I'm going to have to look that up now....hahaha WHOA....HEAVY..... If you left the cat long enough it would stink...definitely DEAD!

 

[plugsandsparks]

Couple of pics for a spot the difference between op and this one...You never see one and then two come along in a year... lol. I took a pic of the lugs behind the barrier to show where they should be connected. BTW, this was done live with my phone cam eeekkk

 

[littlespark]

Maybe the cat wasn’t the best analogy.

To discuss something to say we shouldn’t discuss that something?????

Oh yeah. The first rule of Fight Club

 

[ipf]

Couple of pics for a spot the difference between op and this one...You never see one and then two come along in a year... lol. I took a pic of the lugs behind the barrier to show where they should be connected. BTW, this was done live with my phone cam eeekkk

You should have taken that cover shield off so people could have a good look, then. It makes the DANGER sign look a bit idiotic, eh?
Or do you mean you connected it up live? It wouldn't surprise me if some interpreted it that way.

 

[plugsandsparks]

I was there to fit a meter some 250M away, this isolator was in the Sub, directly connected to the main site busbars, for info, the upsteam protection was 1000A MCCB. I wanted to know why when i switched the isolator off, there was still power to the part of the site i needed to fit the meter. The whole site had to be shut down to rectify. I only had permission to shut down the part i was working on. The photos were taken because i suspected no one would believe me...

 

[nicebutdim]

Amazes me how they get away with it, call themselves SPARKS....hmmmm....I wouldn't be able to hold my head up high if I knew I couldn't do a job properly, why do they take on a job if they know they can't handle it? Either damn stupid or so full of their self esteem. Pride comes before a fall eh...or maybe a dead person!!!!

It's likely the electrician in question didn't know they couldn't do the job properly and ploughed on in blissful ignorance.