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Today I was doing a job for a customer who has just taken over a shop unit and getting it ready for his needs. My task was just to move a few sockets to suit the new layout. But what I found was shocking.
The shop has just had a satisfactory EICR organised by the landlord. According to the tenant, the electrician was there for 2 1/2 days to do the EICR and install one mains powered smoke alarm. Christ knows what he was doing in that time, but checking the safety of the installation was not one of them.
Things I found:
Some of the circuits are on an old MEM rewireable fuse box with the asbestos arc pads with the screw to hold the cover on missing.
Some more are on a wooden wylex with rewireable fuses.
2 more are on a newish Hager board with 2 rcbo's. In there is a 16A rcbo for a heater and a 32A rcbo for a ring final to a couple of sockets. Also into that 32A rcbo was a unknown 1mm cable, still don't know what it feeds but not only is it in the wrong rating circuit breaker for the cable size, the L just pulled out of the terminal it was not clamped properly.
One single socket with a new socket fitted had no power, no attempt aparently to find out why (it took me 5 minutes to sort that one)
And finally the immersion heater, on a small tank in the toilet room, the cover is not retained, the stud that normally holds it in place was rusted away and broken off, so the only thing holding the cover on was some parcel tape.
That was without doing a full test, just the blindingly obvious.
I am not sure which is more criminal, issuing a satisfactory EICR for something that is clearly not, or spending 2 1/2 days (and presumably charging for that time) for what he did.
Upon showing this lot to the tenant he contacted the landlord. Landlord not interested "I have a satisfactory EICR"
The guy doing the testing has stuck an NICIEC tested sticker on the CU. I take it I would be wasting my time asking the NICEIC why one of their members is so clearly incompetent.
Oh and the tenant has asked the landlord for a copy of the EICR but he has failed to produce one.
The shop has just had a satisfactory EICR organised by the landlord. According to the tenant, the electrician was there for 2 1/2 days to do the EICR and install one mains powered smoke alarm. Christ knows what he was doing in that time, but checking the safety of the installation was not one of them.
Things I found:
Some of the circuits are on an old MEM rewireable fuse box with the asbestos arc pads with the screw to hold the cover on missing.
Some more are on a wooden wylex with rewireable fuses.
2 more are on a newish Hager board with 2 rcbo's. In there is a 16A rcbo for a heater and a 32A rcbo for a ring final to a couple of sockets. Also into that 32A rcbo was a unknown 1mm cable, still don't know what it feeds but not only is it in the wrong rating circuit breaker for the cable size, the L just pulled out of the terminal it was not clamped properly.
One single socket with a new socket fitted had no power, no attempt aparently to find out why (it took me 5 minutes to sort that one)
And finally the immersion heater, on a small tank in the toilet room, the cover is not retained, the stud that normally holds it in place was rusted away and broken off, so the only thing holding the cover on was some parcel tape.
That was without doing a full test, just the blindingly obvious.
I am not sure which is more criminal, issuing a satisfactory EICR for something that is clearly not, or spending 2 1/2 days (and presumably charging for that time) for what he did.
Upon showing this lot to the tenant he contacted the landlord. Landlord not interested "I have a satisfactory EICR"
The guy doing the testing has stuck an NICIEC tested sticker on the CU. I take it I would be wasting my time asking the NICEIC why one of their members is so clearly incompetent.
Oh and the tenant has asked the landlord for a copy of the EICR but he has failed to produce one.
