Thanks for that.
Do you have any opinions in his handy work?
Do you have any opinions in his handy work?
OK.The sides of the garage are made out of concrete blocks that are bolted together so you can just undo a bolt and then put a metal bracket on and replace the bolt.
If you've got so much condensation in there that it's running down the walls and dripping off the roof trusses then you'll need to address the cause, not the symptoms.I did think that with the light switch myself hence why I questioned it but what about going into the top of the switch and the plug sockets with the cabling is that advisable in a garage?
Legally you can't do that - you will have to reach an agreement. AIUI if you dispute the quality you have to give him an opportunity to rectify it, so best to find a way to terminate immediately.I don't see why I will have to pay him anything as there wasn't a contract in place and if it gets ugly ill just strip it all out myself shove it in a box and dump it on his doorstep and start from scratch.
You don't want him doing that.im asking now before he pulls the house apart!!
OK.The sides of the garage are made out of concrete blocks that are bolted together so you can just undo a bolt and then put a metal bracket on and replace the bolt.
It's probably be a nightmare to drill into anyway, but the bracket you show looks like he made it by getting his horse to stamp on a bit of random scrap. Presumably the PVC trunking is glued on?
Electrics in a garage is not an unusual requirement, nor shelves, tool racks etc - do the makers not offer any accessories to allow things to be fitted?
In the absence of anything like that I think I'd be tempted to replace the bolts with longer ones and fix vertical pieces of timber as deep as the "flanges" of the concrete panels so that I could then fix horizontal pieces and put sockets and switches etc on them.
How far off the ground are the sockets & CU you show? I get the feeling that they are quite low, which is not always the best idea in a garage, particularly for plastic accessories. I don't know what you plan to do in there, but I wonder if higher up and/or metalclad accessories wouldn't be better?
If you've got so much condensation in there that it's running down the walls and dripping off the roof trusses then you'll need to address the cause, not the symptoms.I did think that with the light switch myself hence why I questioned it but what about going into the top of the switch and the plug sockets with the cabling is that advisable in a garage?
Legally you can't do that - you will have to reach an agreement. AIUI if you dispute the quality you have to give him an opportunity to rectify it, so best to find a way to terminate immediately.I don't see why I will have to pay him anything as there wasn't a contract in place and if it gets ugly ill just strip it all out myself shove it in a box and dump it on his doorstep and start from scratch.
You don't want him doing that.im asking now before he pulls the house apart!!
Out of curiosity - I can see it's broken and so, unacceptable but what is it?
And I've said all along that payment should not be withheld.
Im not going to withhold payment but the problem I have is that he didnt just do a quote for the garage as originally the consumer unit was supposed to be being changed as well so at the moment he can quote a price for the work hes done and I haven't got a clue if its good or bad.
My other question is if you were wiring up the sockets and light switch how would you of done it?
Electrics in a garage is not an unusual requirement, nor shelves, tool racks etc - do the makers not offer any accessories to allow things to be fitted?
In the absence of anything like that I think I'd be tempted to replace the bolts with longer ones and fix vertical pieces of timber as deep as the "flanges" of the concrete panels so that I could then fix horizontal pieces and put sockets and switches etc on them.
Errr..... they do.... but....
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Ye Gods.
And someone else playing fast and loose with BR notification rules...
Still - I guess if you're stupid enough to pay £400 for that kit the Darwin Principle says that you deserve anything bad which happens to you. Like having your details sent to Russ Andrews.
And I still think those brackets look home made.
Yes and no.A good idea, but worth nothing that the edge of the flanges are normally at an angle, so for your bits of timber to sit right they need to have a matching taper... so requires some messing about with the table saw to get it right.
Yes, there's an angle, and I thought about that, but as I was posting an idea not a detailed design I didn't elaborate.
But no chamfering the wood. You wouldn't want the nuts holding the panels together to be bearing onto wood anyway - any shrinkage or deterioration over time would threaten the integrity of the structure.
I'd use longer bolts, tightened as per normal, but with a longer threaded end protruding. Then a large washer or spreader plate, wood, another washer and another nut.
I'd try just one vertical at first, in case I found it moved around. Which it might, as it looks like the panels have sealant between them, i.e. there's no concrete:concrete contact to give rigidity.
Maybe Dexion instead of wood? Diagonal bracing would improve rigidity, as would horizontal members with some nice thick sheets of marine ply bolted to it, which in turn could have sockets, switches, tool racks, brackets, hooks etc etc screwed to it. Horizontal lengths would be also be great for directly hanging tools, fixing brackets to and supporting perimeter trunking.
Or electronicsuk's suggestion of Unistrut is worth consideration.
Were it my garage I too would want to use steel conduit, but to have a sparky do that could be expensive. It'd be a laugh to see the incumbent have a crack at that though....
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