Blue Fox
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Hello all,
Went to look at a job yesterday where the home owneer complained that when he had the television on, the cordless phone plugged in and the alarm clock all on a single socket and his teenage daughters had their hair dryer and hair straigteners and hi fi etc all on a single socket with extension lead and young boy has stuff on again in his room again off a single socket with extension lead - this socket is also wired in 1mm 3 core! the phone would sometimes cut out! The problem The problem is the upstairs is a spider radial wired in 2.5mm so with all that load its struggling, checked c/u and found its fed from 32A mcb and in the c/u the cable is actually beginning to turn brown where its becoming a nice heater, also found down stairs circuit the same. The guy also mentioned he gets shocks from the sink, found no bonding at all to water or gas and earth from MET to consumer unit is a 1.5mm! Asked the customer who had done this as cabling all looks fairly new as does c/u he said he bought house from a guy who got it at auction and "did it up"! So the guy wants prices on doing the bonding and supplimentary bonding as not an RCD in sight at present, I told him really the upstairs radial needs rewiring as the cable is definatly damaged from overload, add an additional double socket to each room and upgrade the 1 single thats in every room to a double, and do the same in the living room which has only got 2 singles. BUT he wants it all priced seperatly, i.e he wants a price for ther bonding, 1 for making the house safe in terms of replacing the mcb's for a correct size (going to fit and rcbo) and replacing damaged cable and another seperate price for adding the additional sockets as he doesn't think he could get it all done in 1 go. However its a 35 mile round trip and the traffic is not too good so its going to be and 3/4 each way I expect to this guy so my price to do the whole lot would be cheaper than to have to go back 3 or 4 times and do it in bits. Would you give a price for each bit and give a % reduction if he wants it all in one go or would you price it all as if being done in 1 go or would go go somehwere in the middle of the 2?
Went to look at a job yesterday where the home owneer complained that when he had the television on, the cordless phone plugged in and the alarm clock all on a single socket and his teenage daughters had their hair dryer and hair straigteners and hi fi etc all on a single socket with extension lead and young boy has stuff on again in his room again off a single socket with extension lead - this socket is also wired in 1mm 3 core! the phone would sometimes cut out! The problem The problem is the upstairs is a spider radial wired in 2.5mm so with all that load its struggling, checked c/u and found its fed from 32A mcb and in the c/u the cable is actually beginning to turn brown where its becoming a nice heater, also found down stairs circuit the same. The guy also mentioned he gets shocks from the sink, found no bonding at all to water or gas and earth from MET to consumer unit is a 1.5mm! Asked the customer who had done this as cabling all looks fairly new as does c/u he said he bought house from a guy who got it at auction and "did it up"! So the guy wants prices on doing the bonding and supplimentary bonding as not an RCD in sight at present, I told him really the upstairs radial needs rewiring as the cable is definatly damaged from overload, add an additional double socket to each room and upgrade the 1 single thats in every room to a double, and do the same in the living room which has only got 2 singles. BUT he wants it all priced seperatly, i.e he wants a price for ther bonding, 1 for making the house safe in terms of replacing the mcb's for a correct size (going to fit and rcbo) and replacing damaged cable and another seperate price for adding the additional sockets as he doesn't think he could get it all done in 1 go. However its a 35 mile round trip and the traffic is not too good so its going to be and 3/4 each way I expect to this guy so my price to do the whole lot would be cheaper than to have to go back 3 or 4 times and do it in bits. Would you give a price for each bit and give a % reduction if he wants it all in one go or would you price it all as if being done in 1 go or would go go somehwere in the middle of the 2?
