Can't you move any quicker?

[Marc]

Found this while looking for a new job. How do they get away with it/manage it?

2x1 Rewire squad required for occupied domestic properties in Hull; work will involve carrying out full rewires in a single day. The sucessful applicants must demonstrate recent experience on similar projects and hold a valid CSCS Card.

Meets national minimum wage, apparently. Surely no qualified electricians are doing this work?

 

[Lurch]

I've seen some pretty tidy rewires on council houses done including plastering\cleaning up etc... by 2 or 3 men in 2 or 3 days. 1 day is pretty hardcore, I'm sure it's do-able, but I don;t think I'd try it.

 

[Marc]

I've seen some pretty tidy rewires on council houses done including plastering\cleaning up etc... by 2 or 3 men in 2 or 3 days. 1 day is pretty hardcore, I'm sure it's do-able, but I don;t think I'd try it.

1 day on an occupied house though? It'd take a day to keep moving furniture backwards & forwards.

 

[Zeespark]

Go into the house with a clear game plan, then work out how many sparkies, labourers and apprentices that you will need. Should be doable in a day.

AndyGuinness

 

[m4tty]

Surface rewire??

 

[Theorysparky]

Surface rewire??

yep

 

[jibspark]

job centre site i presume?

so many sparking jobs on there for 'national minimum wage', even an electrical estimator!!

That reminds me, i need to have another look for work!

 

[batty]

When council rewired our house 30 years ago I think that was in one day but when doing estates you get to know which boards to take up and routes for cables. A lot was in mini trunking and surface boxes were used. Probably was not tested. I personally would not want that sort of work but each to there own.

Batty

 

[vandalay]

2 x 1 rewire squad req. a full rewire in occupied house in a day.... be better off looking for The A-Team, crazy fools.

 

[NozSpark]

Only 1 a day???? ; )

I've heared of this before on council houses....

when you go to their friends house they think there's will be as quick (when it's only you and maybe a mate)..

 

[Marc]

How many people do they pile into these houses? Ok it'd be a lot easier for a surface rewire, but even then getting it done in the space of say 10 hours would be a bit of a struggle. Anyone with experience on these know what the quality of work is like?

Noz, Doreen across the road had hers done in a day, why can't you manage that?

 

[NozSpark]

How many people do they pile into these houses? Ok it'd be a lot easier for a surface rewire, but even then getting it done in the space of say 10 hours would be a bit of a struggle. Anyone with experience on these know what the quality of work is like?Noz, Doreen across the road had hers done in a day, why can't you manage that?

Exactomundo...

10 people hit it, do it in a day

1 person does it in ????

 

[green-hornet]

I am afraid there is no way ANY competant person would do this in one day.

I speak from experiance where a cowboy company set up for just such a task employed whomever they could to get extra hands on deck only to find that nothing in rush work was to a standard we pride ourselves on.

Unfortunately councils will go for the cheapest tender.

I was called in to help out a friend who was subcontracted to do these 1 day wonders, when I arrived with three of my own lads what we saw was shocking, and the stress was all too aparrent.

At around 16:00 hrs the head of the council arrived with the bloke who was in charge of the rewires, guess what I said

Well you know me for opening my mouth.

In the rush they had almost demolished the house, a double socket in one bedroom was almost 3 block square. Cables had been tangled around heating pipes, one electrician took nuetrals down to switch, the other used switch wires

Needless to say it was a mess, as can be expected if made to rush. I actually told them that if this house is given a certificate I would complain to the building control.

Another company doing the same type of work gave two days for a full rewire, what a difference, still high pressure work but all cables where in prescribed zones, away from other influences, everything was chased out perfect and a real treat to work on.

I am sorry but these companies are set up for one thing and that is volume over quality, and they get away with it, such is the way part p is policed.

I wish I was an enforcement officer, I would take any licence from them in an instant.

 

[Marc]

Thanks GH, nice to know what the quality of workmanship is like. Was a certificate issued? Sounds like it wasn't a surface rewire, how many people do they throw into these houses?

Marc.

 

[Bez]

Myself and an apprentice took 2 long days to do a surface re-wire in a 2 bedroom council flat, new DB and tested correctly.

How the hell do they manage a house in a day?

 

[green-hornet]

Myself and an apprentice took 2 long days to do a surface re-wire in a 2 bedroom council flat, new DB and tested correctly.How the hell do they manage a house in a day?

Thats about how fast it can be done doing it correctly.

I can and did a bathroom and kitchen with new CU in a day, first and second fix, and even then I got pulled by some young upstart because I used blank plates to cover unused connections, that required maintenance because of screw type connections. He wanted them all plastered over.

I refused to do anything against regulations and was booted off the job.

Marc

As to your question the tester came after everything was installed and plastered, I doubt very much that any certificate would be worth the paper it was written on to be honest.

 

[batty]

When they did ours all those years ago my main memory was whoever put tails into meter did not tighten them up because after a few days our lights started flashing.

Batty

 

[christhesparky]

The company i work for carries out 1 day rewires, normally 2 sparkies and 1 labourer, all chased in, capped up ready for plasterers to follow the next day.

All chases done with chase machine and extractor, normally 2 lads chasing out while the lead electrician gets boards up and starts pulling cables in

 

[batty]

The company i work for carries out 1 day rewires, normally 2 sparkies and 1 labourer, all chased in, capped up ready for plasterers to follow the next day.All chases done with chase machine and extractor, normally 2 lads chasing out while the lead electrician gets boards up and starts pulling cables in

You deserve a cigarette doing all that lot in one day.

 

[kme]

You deserve a cigarette doing all that lot in one day.

Thanks mate

I`ll just go do that now........back in a jiffy