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I must really be getting the rough jobs at the moment !
Friend & client just bought another house to rework slightly and sell off again within a few weeks max, & for some reason is another character that doesn't think to get electrics looked at before buying.
So I start doing a few checks & tests & straight away cooker cable way out if any zone, Ring final x 1 for entire 3 bed house, no r1, rn or r2 at all so after finding 6 ! Old 30A jb's find most sockets in property are fed as spurs from each of these jb's which were under cut floorboards but under carpet & underlay so not accessible !
Coming off same 30A plug in two prong breaker (3871) replacement for 3036 was also a 2.5 3" long into a 15A term block where 3 more 2.5's fed off to sockets and boiler in garage !
One of the sockets then spurred from a spur to another twin socket which fed a wash machine. Obviously couldn't get all 5 x 2.5mm cables into the old 3036 carrier way.
Cannot understand why anyone would ever do works like this but local polish spark says they do their radials like that out to a jb and spread one cable to each socket like a spider.
Surely not ?
Anyways collected a new shiny Hager Cu today & switchfuse so going to bring it all up to date as works I'm doing need to be up to standard so may as well sleep easy.
Friend & client just bought another house to rework slightly and sell off again within a few weeks max, & for some reason is another character that doesn't think to get electrics looked at before buying.
So I start doing a few checks & tests & straight away cooker cable way out if any zone, Ring final x 1 for entire 3 bed house, no r1, rn or r2 at all so after finding 6 ! Old 30A jb's find most sockets in property are fed as spurs from each of these jb's which were under cut floorboards but under carpet & underlay so not accessible !
Coming off same 30A plug in two prong breaker (3871) replacement for 3036 was also a 2.5 3" long into a 15A term block where 3 more 2.5's fed off to sockets and boiler in garage !
One of the sockets then spurred from a spur to another twin socket which fed a wash machine. Obviously couldn't get all 5 x 2.5mm cables into the old 3036 carrier way.
Cannot understand why anyone would ever do works like this but local polish spark says they do their radials like that out to a jb and spread one cable to each socket like a spider.
Surely not ?
Anyways collected a new shiny Hager Cu today & switchfuse so going to bring it all up to date as works I'm doing need to be up to standard so may as well sleep easy.