Dodgy wiring?

[NewOrder]

Just been to a customers house to look at why his broadband does not work (made a thread on this in telephones) but I found that he had simply joined trhe original ring main wiring into a junction box where he has also joined telephone wires the wire then going into the sockets looks a bit thin it looks more like 10amp rather than 13 amp cable but I am not a spark and its beena while since I have done any DIY so it may well be 13 amp cable. This cable then connects two double sockets and I assume it is a branch.

The bloke has claimed to be a sparky a amongst other things but he is not from this country (he comes from FSO land) and from what I can tell no safety certs have been issued, the problem is what can I say?

 

[sparkyspike]

If the spark has wired telephone cables into a jb with 230v cables, then you should question anything else that he has done to that installation. If you suspect that the wiring is sub-standard, then say so.

 

[NewOrder]

Well it is looking like he is planning of getting in a telephone sparkie so hopefully they will be clued up on the regs and comment on a sub standard installation.

His building work looks brilliant and I don't think for one minute he is a cowboy, I just think he dosn't realise how strict the regs are over here and dosn't realise you cannot legaly carry out electrical work and chaerge for it in domestic properies unless you certify it etc.

 

[LiamPope]

...simply joined trhe original ring main wiring into a junction box where he has also joined telephone wires the wire then going into the sockets looks a bit thin it looks more like 10amp...

Despite what sounds like some dodgy electrical work, I dare say the guy from FSO land could probably string together a better sentence of english than that one!

 

[NewOrder]

I am tired and have had far too many cans of coke, my brain is currently two steps behind what I am typing. Yuo kni vizi wil wat i ment thow cos humans hve ths abty to undrstnd thngs evn whn things are missd out.



On a more worrying note the kitchen was installed and wired by this person included the electric cooker but the spure was already there.