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Evening all,
At the beginning of the week I went back to a property where the following week I had completed the first fix to a small extension.
The customer didn't want any carpets and floorboards removing, so asked if a supply cable could be run on the outside of the building as inconspicuous as possible. So I opted for an SWA surface mounted out of the way.
Anyway, I had to drill through a wall to gain access into a very small room which housed the metering equipment, in order to get to the consumer unit mounted in the house. This is what I found when I entered the small room.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i309/Voltimax/DSC00021.jpg
Here's a closer look.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i309/Voltimax/DSC00022.jpg
And this is what happened when I got hold of it!
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i309/Voltimax/DSC00023.jpg
Now you'll notice there's a single pole service block there with 3 tails in it. Three years ago an electrician was invited to the property to install a new circuit for an electric shower. You can't see in the pics, but above the meter is a shower consumer unit. Originally the brown meter tail was connected directly into the meter. The electrician cut the seals to the meter and disconnected it. He then installed that lose tail from the meter into that single pole service block, connected the brown tail (consumer unit) into it also and then connected a third tail to the new shower consumer unit. He then put another seal onto the meter.
Well obviously this electrician has very weak wrists! I had to get Siemans out to sort out this mess since it was a fire waiting to happen, when the guy came out he proceeded to pull out every cable the electrician had installed by hand! He didn't need any tools, he also noted the seals as not being the ones they install. The same electrician had installed a new consumer unit, and when I installed my new circuit, I checked the terminations in it. Well the cooker cable was just sitting in there loose with lots of copper showing and every single terminal in that board was loose!
Guess what? The fool even left his name etc on a sticker in the flap, so Siemans know who to go and prosecute (maybe) now. He's registered under a scheme and he left certificates etc. What a total moron.
At the beginning of the week I went back to a property where the following week I had completed the first fix to a small extension.
The customer didn't want any carpets and floorboards removing, so asked if a supply cable could be run on the outside of the building as inconspicuous as possible. So I opted for an SWA surface mounted out of the way.
Anyway, I had to drill through a wall to gain access into a very small room which housed the metering equipment, in order to get to the consumer unit mounted in the house. This is what I found when I entered the small room.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i309/Voltimax/DSC00021.jpg
Here's a closer look.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i309/Voltimax/DSC00022.jpg
And this is what happened when I got hold of it!
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i309/Voltimax/DSC00023.jpg
Now you'll notice there's a single pole service block there with 3 tails in it. Three years ago an electrician was invited to the property to install a new circuit for an electric shower. You can't see in the pics, but above the meter is a shower consumer unit. Originally the brown meter tail was connected directly into the meter. The electrician cut the seals to the meter and disconnected it. He then installed that lose tail from the meter into that single pole service block, connected the brown tail (consumer unit) into it also and then connected a third tail to the new shower consumer unit. He then put another seal onto the meter.
Well obviously this electrician has very weak wrists! I had to get Siemans out to sort out this mess since it was a fire waiting to happen, when the guy came out he proceeded to pull out every cable the electrician had installed by hand! He didn't need any tools, he also noted the seals as not being the ones they install. The same electrician had installed a new consumer unit, and when I installed my new circuit, I checked the terminations in it. Well the cooker cable was just sitting in there loose with lots of copper showing and every single terminal in that board was loose!
Guess what? The fool even left his name etc on a sticker in the flap, so Siemans know who to go and prosecute (maybe) now. He's registered under a scheme and he left certificates etc. What a total moron.
