Tripping lighting MCB

NozSpark · Nov 25, 2008

You know how you go to jobs reporting a tripping MCB on the lighting circuit only to find that someone has disconnected an outside light and left the cables dangling or just pushed them out of the way....

well I had one like that today, spent an hour or so looking for the fault in the fittings, spotted a switch and asked "what does that do??". Found out it supplied an old outside light which had been taken down a year or more ago. In the switch were both L & N which were not isolated from the outgoing cable.

Oh yeh, forgot to say this was in a school

:O

SPECIAL LOCATION · Nov 25, 2008

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:|

NozSpark · Nov 25, 2008

TBH it really hacks me off when I see things like this in a domestic situation, but I thought that all work carried out in a school (especially) should be done by a competent person (and I do not mean in the Part P way), they should also be registered with the local council.

Now don't get me wrong (I am only a lowly NIC DI, subbing to someone who is on the council list), but If I know that this is wrong then a full AC should!!

SPECIAL LOCATION · Nov 25, 2008

TBH it really hacks me off when I see things like this in a domestic situation, but I thought that all work carried out in a school (especially) should be done by a competent person (and I do not mean in the Part P way), they should also be registered with the local council.Now don't get me wrong (I am only a lowly NIC DI, subbing to someone who is on the council list), but If I know that this is wrong then a full AC should!!

Done by the "caretaker" one weekend..

save getting a leccy in an having to pay a big bill!! ?:| ; \