DIY spur anyone - Bell wire will DOnot

[martinxxxxxx]

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This is the tip of the iceberg of what we found at this guys house. He now has a council carer who was a bit worried by some of the electrics. He should have been more concerned by the gas installation. I called the gas emergency line and they said there were several leaks and to quote "the boiler is pi$$ing out CO2" Probably why the old boys health has gone down hill rapidly in the last year.

 

[TheVictorian]

Holy Mary!!

 

[ricicle]

That's not bell wire - it's more like speaker wire or certain appliance flex.

 

[OwainDIYer]

just as well he doesn't plug in anything powerful ... like a vacuum cleaner.

 

[securespark]

Cue for RF to post his picture of alarm cable used for 230V...

 

[Robin0577]

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This is the tip of the iceberg of what we found at this guys house.

Do we get to see photos of the rest of this iceburg?

 

[martinxxxxxx]

I don't want to do too many case the customer gets wind of it, I might ask them to sign a photography waiver....

We have found four types of cable under the floor that are part of the socket "circuit"; one of them is golden

 

[Spark123]

Old lamp flex?

 

[martinxxxxxx]

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This is the tip of the iceberg of what we found at this guys house.

Do we get to see photos of the rest of this iceburg?

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Heated mirror anyone?

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liquorice allsorts?

You want more?

 

[Spark123]

Are you recommending a full rewire or just a new consumer unit??

 

[Maxatoria]

When i've ran cat5/6 for people in their homes i'm amazed by what I find under the floor and i've probably created enough work for electricians to keep a few in beer for a year when you pull up the floorboard and find the socket is spur'd from a double thats done in 1.5mm using iron leads connected by choc blocks and for some reason they seem to think I can fix it (best bones from startrek voice : i'm a IT guy dammit Jim not an electrician)

It's why my multimeter (for testing fuses/powercables) and insulated screwdrivers (prefer the feel) are normally hidden at the bottom of my tool bag as otherwise they think i'm a spark and it goes downhill once I show them the problems

 

[Spark123]

Wouldn't suprise me if the main bonding is done in cat 5 (but more likely non-existant)

 

[ajstoneservices]

uhm, that one rings a bell

 

[martinxxxxxx]

Wouldn't suprise me if the main bonding is done in cat 5 (but more likely non-existant)

Non existing.

We are doing a luxury wire upgrade - this consists of taking all the old wire down to the weigh bridge and putting all new ones in. Plus a boiler and 8 radiators.

 

[martinxxxxxx]

Some more handy work

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