Cu Change and Partial Rewire

[jameseye12]

Some pics of a job I have been doing the past two days. Replaced the existing CU with a nice (and cheap) shiny new one. Removed the old circuit for the immersion heater and the separate board for the old shower. New board, two socket circuits on the rcd side, an RCBO on the other side for the lights and an unprotected circuit to the new RCD board in the shed. (cable clipped direct and run in conduit)

All the exisiting wiring is VIR cable, which is surprising not too badly deteriorated. Found an N-E fault on the ring circuit, spend 6 hours solving this, stripped the circuit right down and eventually replaced the section of cable that was causing the problem. Still its much all much safer now. Just need to put some stickers on the board.

Also some pics of the dangerous wiring found before starting. Rubber flex taped into lighting circuit in loft, hung down from the roof out the back of the house, into the cable block and socket feeding lights in shed and outside lighting. 13a Plug feeding 2.5mm T&E into another shed. Replaced this with an new 3 way RCD board and gave the shed its own circuit. Also rewired the porch and the kitchen sockets radial which was wired in rubber flex and 1.5mm t&e off a 30a fuse! Bloody DIYers

 

[Couleddie]

Your last 2 words just about sum it up! I bet the 'Black Museum' on the plumber forum isn't anywhere near as interesting as ours!