I have the same problem....Got talked into & went out to a fault today no power at sockets."we've been left in the lurch by the kitchen fitter, he's gone & refuses to come back untill next Tuesday he say's he is now on holiday, we have just got in & discovered we have no sockets working & no heating & oven isnt working"
Got there & found the sockets wired as a radial, the fitter had disconnected what he thought was a spur (cable dropping down below work top) running fron a double socket & told the customer the 2 cables going up were the ringmain..... unfortunately for him one of the legs going up was the supply in to the socket (first on the circuit) & the other leg was to a fused spur in the loft for tv amplifier. He had infact disconnected the radial circuit at the socket that supplies the heating / sockets to rest of house & oven.
So when he'd done for the morning he plugs in a socket tester at the socket all 3 led's light up & he tells customer the circuit is fine & tested & will be back to complete the work next week.
kitchen fitter told the home owner he's fine to do the electrics as he has always done small electrical jobs long before any new regs said he wasnt allowed & he can do it at a fraction of the price that an electrician would charge.
He was supposed to change all the kitchen's old acessories (MK bakerlite surface type) & add extra sockets + fcu for hood.... what he didn't do was secure any of the new back boxes into his chases but left the sockets connected (albeit not energised but that wasnt planned) & floating with not a single grommet in use, sheathing stripped back to outside the back box, he gave no mention to customer of rcd that isnt present at the cu & if he'd been able to test the circuit he'd have found it fails IR quite badly (0.07ohms ) on a section between kitchen & dining room.
On the bright side I got
although it really doesnt bother me, im young, not got kids so dont bother celebrating it at the moment
