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Post by rocketmanbkk on Jan 13, 2021 15:48:44 GMT
An elderly lady had electric from her kitchen to her garage for a freezer.
The sparky has just run cable through the kitchen wall, tacked it to the fence posts x2 & into the garage.
Surely the cable should be in some sort of trunking for outside or armoured cake?
What’s the regs say?
Cheers all
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Post by pb on Jan 13, 2021 16:25:22 GMT
On unsecured structures like fences I think it should be armoured and in a tray rack, on commercial places I work that is certainly the case but maybe that's just belt and braces rocky.
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Post by dickpuller on Jan 13, 2021 18:08:00 GMT
It certainly sounds like it should be Armoured Cable or at the very, very least Plastic Conduit. Poor old dear, some bastard has done a crap job for her!!
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Post by cylinderfella on Jan 13, 2021 22:11:58 GMT
Yeah, armoured 2.5 T&E, in appropriate junction boxes with glands and correct earthing.
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Post by endfeed on Jan 13, 2021 22:16:42 GMT
Bet he charged her top dollar too🤡
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Post by pb on Jan 13, 2021 22:21:41 GMT
Bet he charged her top dollar too🤡 Fucking right I did  |
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Post by pb on Jan 13, 2021 22:27:20 GMT
Joking aside it sounds a right bodge job
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Post by dickpuller on Jan 14, 2021 6:53:10 GMT
Bet he charged her top dollar too🤡 Fucking right I did Mate you’re joking, but some of these coffin dodgers are fucking loaded. So never give them reduced rates, don’t reduce YOUR value. Of course some of them are completely Pot Less, but judge for yourself............Remember, money on your mind & mind on the money!! You’re not a fucking Charity!!! |
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Post by rocketmanbkk on Jan 14, 2021 7:16:32 GMT
Cheers all
From what I gather she didn’t pay through the nose which leads me to suspect it wasn’t an electrician that did the work.
I told her to get it redone.
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Post by crowsfoot on Jan 14, 2021 8:46:49 GMT
It could well be someone unqualified but with good intentions who did it - it's something that I come across fairly regularly. It's a wonder that the government hasn't thought up yearly house MOTs yet  ? Perhaps it's already on it's way because the removal of all flexi-hoses is well underway in social housing properties? |
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Post by crowsfoot on Jan 14, 2021 8:51:56 GMT
Fucking right I did Mate you’re joking, but some of these coffin dodgers are fucking loaded. So never give them reduced rates, don’t reduce YOUR value. Of course some of them are completely Pot Less, but judge for yourself............Remember, money on your mind & mind on the money!! You’re not a fucking Charity!!! Plus before you know it you've been passed on to half a dozen more peeps as a doer of cheap plumbing jobs (digging your own grave). |
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Post by hmv4u on Jan 14, 2021 13:20:36 GMT
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Post by rocketmanbkk on Jan 14, 2021 16:50:00 GMT
It could well be someone unqualified but with good intentions who did it - it's something that I come across fairly regularly. It's a wonder that the government hasn't thought up yearly house MOTs yet ? Perhaps it's already on it's way because the removal of all flexi-hoses is well underway in social housing properties? What no flexis? Are they going all plastic then? |
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Post by crowsfoot on Jan 15, 2021 8:08:33 GMT
The legionella bacteria likes to breed in the rubber coating in the flexi's and it's this fact that's got the landlords in a mass panic.
They're being ripped out faster than gas fire's were when the carbon monoxide related to gas fires scare was initiated over 20 years ago.
NB You can't catch legionella disease by drinking it.
Returning to hard piped copper tap connections seems to be the way we are going, even though most flexi's are (at this moment) still approved by water authorities.
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Post by battle1066 on Jan 15, 2021 16:28:25 GMT
The legionella bacteria likes to breed in the rubber coating in the flexi's and it's this fact that's got the landlords in a mass panic. They're being ripped out faster than gas fire's were when the carbon monoxide related to gas fires scare was initiated over 20 years ago. NB You can't catch legionella disease by drinking it. Returning to hard piped copper tap connections seems to be the way we are going, even though most flexi's are (at this moment) still approved by water authorities. Plenty good taps going to be binned then! |
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