Hello folks,
My eldest daughter got married a couple of weeks ago and has just moved into a new rented house. Her fella is in the RAF and they now live in a forces married quarter, just down the road, so their house has been looked after and well maintained.
When they first moved in and i was helping them to do stuff like plumb the washing machine in , etc i couldn't help but have a bit of a nosey, especially at their Consumer Uit installation , mostly because I have just had mine replace and i wanted to look at hers for comparison, i note that she also has a Memera 2000 CU.
The first thing that struck me was that there seems to be two other feeds from the service head, probably to the neighbours houses .
There were a couple of earthing clamps in various locations that had come loose over the years which i cleaned up and tightened ( under the sink) , I also thought that the main earth from the CU to the service cable looked a bit on the puny side so would welcome any comments from the resident experts, (i've not touched it).
The only other thing that i did was to go around and check all of their wall socket outlets with my RCD tester, probably more because it cost me a few quid and i won't get much chance to use it that often
One thing that i would like to add is that I think it looks very unproffessional when tradesmen leave all of their waste behind , such as copper pipe off cuts, cable off-cuts and insulation strippings , etc, etc... a lack of attention to detail imho. In my job I can't afford to leave nothing behind when I've been working in on of the closed Aircraft compartments in case it becomes loose and fouls one of the controls, or shorts something out electrically.
I know you guys like piccy's so here is one for you to comment on :
Regards
My eldest daughter got married a couple of weeks ago and has just moved into a new rented house. Her fella is in the RAF and they now live in a forces married quarter, just down the road, so their house has been looked after and well maintained.
When they first moved in and i was helping them to do stuff like plumb the washing machine in , etc i couldn't help but have a bit of a nosey, especially at their Consumer Uit installation , mostly because I have just had mine replace and i wanted to look at hers for comparison, i note that she also has a Memera 2000 CU.
The first thing that struck me was that there seems to be two other feeds from the service head, probably to the neighbours houses .
There were a couple of earthing clamps in various locations that had come loose over the years which i cleaned up and tightened ( under the sink) , I also thought that the main earth from the CU to the service cable looked a bit on the puny side so would welcome any comments from the resident experts, (i've not touched it).
The only other thing that i did was to go around and check all of their wall socket outlets with my RCD tester, probably more because it cost me a few quid and i won't get much chance to use it that often
One thing that i would like to add is that I think it looks very unproffessional when tradesmen leave all of their waste behind , such as copper pipe off cuts, cable off-cuts and insulation strippings , etc, etc... a lack of attention to detail imho. In my job I can't afford to leave nothing behind when I've been working in on of the closed Aircraft compartments in case it becomes loose and fouls one of the controls, or shorts something out electrically.
I know you guys like piccy's so here is one for you to comment on :
Regards
