one of this weeks jobs

[M107]

Only a couple of pictures.

A cu swap & rewire of kitchen (hob one side of kitchen oven the opposite side), addition of smokes, addition of outdoor light.

The old crabtree unit back boxes in for sockets & drops in for pelmet lighting & hood.

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panning round same wall

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New cu going in.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/gazjothomas/DSC00304.jpg

Trunking lid needs pushing up & a wipe over, the walls are going to be dot & dab'd so will cover the trunk anyway.

Cu is fed via 16mm T/E submain from 100mA s type rcd & 65amp mcb at front of property supply is TT.

Also ended up rewiring the landing 2way lighting.......time old problem of borrowed neutral that wouldnt make the dual rcd's too happy.

Back tomorrow & Saturday so more pictures to follow.

 

[Apache]

B&Q level?



Lovely job. Did you do the wallpapering too?

 

[M107]

Nothing wrong with a cheap B&Q level.............I dont worry about the cost when I loose it

Notice I say when & not if:Blushing

Wall paper is spot on isnt it.....the bath is modern.......sort of.....it's a jaccuzzi the new property owner told me his other half filled the bath on their first night in the place, jumped in laid back pushed the bubble button for a nice relaxing jaccizzi soak................. & was bombbarded with the best part of 20 years worth of black sludge ROTFWL .

 

[Apache]

 

[M107]

Nite Patch it's off the the kip pit for me mate.

 

[Apache]

Night mate

 

[M107]

more pictures from this job.

This is the meter box with submain to cu inside. Already installed all I had to do was change the old 100A 100mA standard rcd to a Time delay type (made the customer choke when he saw the cost of rcd

 

[rainydays]

I`m no expert but i do not see any crimp lugs on your main earth bond terminations and the twin and earth to the outside light may raise a few eyebrows.

 

[Badger]

tbh rainydays re the twin and earth to the outside light for the small amount like most flood lights that is shown i would not have a problem with that amount showing and to be honest i think m107 has done some fine work there,

 

[rainydays]

m107 has done some fine work and he is brave posting pictures. If i put some on i am sure that it would not meet with everyones approval

 

[batty]

Nice work M. Does it annoy you that MK keep changing there suppliers for circuit breakers and the switches don't line up the new RCBO's switches don't line up very annoying.

 

[m4tty]

Whilst I was doing my Level 3 2330 last week another group of people were doing BPEC Part P defined scope exam and one of the questions was regarding T&E being used outdoors and the answer was (it is fine to use it outdoors)

Nice work M107 and please keep posting up your piccies as its a great help.

Cheers Guinness

 

[revjames]

what is that thing attached to a cable coming out from the plasterboard?

 

[AAAMUSEMENTS]

I`m no expert but i do not see any crimp lugs on your main earth bond terminations

A lot of people frown on crimps on MEB it seems, as they view it as an extra joint to fail. They certainly aren't compulsory.

Besides which the gas one is through bonded, so use of crimps there would I believe be against regs (the earth wire must be continuous and unbroken, if a single 10mm is used to both water and gas?)

Looks like some nice work to me, that earth rod installation is wonderfully neat!

:Applaud

 

[AAAMUSEMENTS]

what is that thing attached to a cable coming out from the plasterboard?

Think it's an SELV lighting transformer.

 

[m4tty]

i thought it was a diy phone charger lol

 

[M107]

The things on the end of the cable....a phone charger indeed...... are infact Ashley J501 junction boxes (what Ashley call 17th compliant JB's).

These are the feeds for the pelmet lights when the wall cupboards go up, higher up the wall are a couple of loops that are behind a blank plate, these can be used to loop in/out of a transformer that can be sat on top of the wall cupboard if elv pelmet lighting is wanted.

As pointed out the MEB to the gas is a loop through & is on going to the water, my thinking is the crimps look very nice & tidy but with stranded conductors I preferre direct contact to the clamp with the conductor unless it's a bigger csa & a hydraulic crimper is used.

I have no problem posting pictures of my work, constructive critisim is always welcome as none of us know it all, and besides I wish when I was at college I had somewhere I could have viewed some hands on pictures of how others undertake such work.

 

[batty]

A lot of people frown on crimps on MEB it seems, as they view it as an extra joint to fail. They certainly aren't compulsory.Besides which the gas one is through bonded, so use of crimps there would I believe be against regs (the earth wire must be continuous and unbroken, if a single 10mm is used to both water and gas?)

Looks like some nice work to me, that earth rod installation is wonderfully neat!

:Applaud

I generally use crimps if its the end of the 10mm as this was what I was taught at college but if you wrap the cable around the screw that to me is a better connection than a lug but either way should not be a problem.

 

[AAAMUSEMENTS]

I generally use crimps if its the end of the 10mm as this was what I was taught at college but if you wrap the cable around the screw that to me is a better connection than a lug but either way should not be a problem.

So far I like the neatness of crimps - and my logic is, if I can't pull it off the end with a pair of pliers, then it's going to last.

 

[Voltimax]

I have a question.

On looking at the first pics you posted I see a diagonal chase from the cooker switch to the cooker outlet and assume (note I said assume) you ran a cable in that chase, would I be correct in my assumption?