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I'm just wonderg, what kind of checks are carried out on a new build?
Our house was built in 1999, an the number of dangerous bodges I have found on the wiring whilst preparing for the new kitchen is alarming.
1. Whilst changing a double socket front plate one of the wires in the ring came adrift in my hand, reason being that about 1m up from the socket the wires were twisted together & taped up with insulating tape to "make safe". This resulted me having to make an acess hole to allow me to make a safe joint using crimp & heastshrink.
2. Whilst re-plasterboarding an area after removing the tiles I became aware that the spur feeding the washing m/c looked suspect, the wire for the spur was actually .75mm 3core flex, so obviously I replaced this.
3. Clearly somebody had forgotten to install a socket for the dishwasher, as whilst it was out over the weekend I noticed that the wall behing the dishwasher was cracking. THis was because clearly at some point the electricians had needed to drop the wire down to the dishwasher socket, but there is a batton just above the socket for the kitchen units to attach to, so rather than pass the wire behind, they had simply bashed the plasterboard away, layed the wires over batton, then plastered over. So once again I had to do a 'proper job'.
Our house was built in 1999, an the number of dangerous bodges I have found on the wiring whilst preparing for the new kitchen is alarming.
1. Whilst changing a double socket front plate one of the wires in the ring came adrift in my hand, reason being that about 1m up from the socket the wires were twisted together & taped up with insulating tape to "make safe". This resulted me having to make an acess hole to allow me to make a safe joint using crimp & heastshrink.
2. Whilst re-plasterboarding an area after removing the tiles I became aware that the spur feeding the washing m/c looked suspect, the wire for the spur was actually .75mm 3core flex, so obviously I replaced this.
3. Clearly somebody had forgotten to install a socket for the dishwasher, as whilst it was out over the weekend I noticed that the wall behing the dishwasher was cracking. THis was because clearly at some point the electricians had needed to drop the wire down to the dishwasher socket, but there is a batton just above the socket for the kitchen units to attach to, so rather than pass the wire behind, they had simply bashed the plasterboard away, layed the wires over batton, then plastered over. So once again I had to do a 'proper job'.
