Hello guys. My friend has been showing me his electrical wiring.
He is in rented accommodation. Today, he went to turn the water immersion on and there was a big spark, he felt a slight shock and the immersion doesn't work any more and NOTHING tripped out!
When he moved in to the place there was no hotwater coming out of the shower. After 2 months someone came along to fit a water pump, which cuts in everytime a hot tap is pressed.
Please can you give me your thoughts on the below points.
Point 1. we are unsure as to whether the maintenance guy added the additional socket for the pump, although it is quite likely. The immersion wall switch has had the bottom 2 inches of plastic hacked out of it. Out of this gaping hole in the bottom of the switch plate is a grey wire with only the live and neutral connected. the earth is NOT connected and NOT sleeved at either end (pump socket and immersion switch end).
We are unsure how he can report this to the landlord as technically, he shouldn't have unscrewed the front panel to check and they will try to blame him. Either way, the first issue is there is a socket running off the immersion point which has no earth connected!! I believe this is wrong?!
Point 2. The Grey cable coming out of the switch and going to the socket, it is dangling, no attempt has been made to fix it to the wall. If something falls off the shelf, it could bring the cable with it and a live end would be on show? I believe this is wrong
Point 3. originally, there was not a pump, although unsure about the socket, it does look like the same genius that wired the socket did everything himself (even the wall is torched behind the plumbing joints put in for the pump). Shouldn't the water pump be on an RCD? The circuit board has an RCD added on at the end, but since this socket is coming off the imersion, this socket isn't on an RCD. When the RCD goes off, the water pump is still able to run..I believe this too is in breach of the regulations?
Point 4. The circuit board is completely wrongly labeled. When the water heater breaker is turned off, the storage heater goes off....the test inspecion due sticker has just been written over rather than changed.
Where does he stand. If he gets an electrician in, he will have a bill, but it is not his job to put right. If he tells the Landlord the guy hasn't even earthed the socket, he is going to wonder how mate knows. Even if he gets an electrician in, they will try to blame someone else. I suggested contacted the NIC or building regs and asking for advice. I am no electrician myself but I am pretty sure you can't legally connect a wire for a socket and leave the earths unconnected and unsleeved, let alone without an RCD under the current regulations. Any advice would be much appreciated.
He is in rented accommodation. Today, he went to turn the water immersion on and there was a big spark, he felt a slight shock and the immersion doesn't work any more and NOTHING tripped out!
When he moved in to the place there was no hotwater coming out of the shower. After 2 months someone came along to fit a water pump, which cuts in everytime a hot tap is pressed.
Please can you give me your thoughts on the below points.
Point 1. we are unsure as to whether the maintenance guy added the additional socket for the pump, although it is quite likely. The immersion wall switch has had the bottom 2 inches of plastic hacked out of it. Out of this gaping hole in the bottom of the switch plate is a grey wire with only the live and neutral connected. the earth is NOT connected and NOT sleeved at either end (pump socket and immersion switch end).
We are unsure how he can report this to the landlord as technically, he shouldn't have unscrewed the front panel to check and they will try to blame him. Either way, the first issue is there is a socket running off the immersion point which has no earth connected!! I believe this is wrong?!
Point 2. The Grey cable coming out of the switch and going to the socket, it is dangling, no attempt has been made to fix it to the wall. If something falls off the shelf, it could bring the cable with it and a live end would be on show? I believe this is wrong
Point 3. originally, there was not a pump, although unsure about the socket, it does look like the same genius that wired the socket did everything himself (even the wall is torched behind the plumbing joints put in for the pump). Shouldn't the water pump be on an RCD? The circuit board has an RCD added on at the end, but since this socket is coming off the imersion, this socket isn't on an RCD. When the RCD goes off, the water pump is still able to run..I believe this too is in breach of the regulations?
Point 4. The circuit board is completely wrongly labeled. When the water heater breaker is turned off, the storage heater goes off....the test inspecion due sticker has just been written over rather than changed.
Where does he stand. If he gets an electrician in, he will have a bill, but it is not his job to put right. If he tells the Landlord the guy hasn't even earthed the socket, he is going to wonder how mate knows. Even if he gets an electrician in, they will try to blame someone else. I suggested contacted the NIC or building regs and asking for advice. I am no electrician myself but I am pretty sure you can't legally connect a wire for a socket and leave the earths unconnected and unsleeved, let alone without an RCD under the current regulations. Any advice would be much appreciated.
