Is this legal?!

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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.
 
about the pump

The pump is to boost water flow and works off a flow switch, so the pump will kick in every time a hw tap is activated.
 
about the pump

The pump is to boost water flow and works off a flow switch, so the pump will kick in every time a hw tap is activated.

thanks for reply, yes yes, its not so much the function of the pump but the fact it even states in the manual it should be on an RCD and any pump for that matter or any newly wired socket should be on an rcd circut atleast, let alone not being earthed. The main point of the post is, what does he do now he has found out the landlords maintenance guy isn't exactly working to the wiring regulations? How can he tell the guy half the things when he himself can't admit to looking behind the panels, as he will get the blame? Who can he go to / how does he point out its all wrong without incurring himself a bill. If the Earth becomes faulty and he touches a pipe and the pipeworks not earthed properly..someone could be seriously injured and if this one guy looks after many properties too, its probably not the only place that has issues?
 
Point one: damaged accessory/enclosure needs reporting, regardless of wiring.
Point two: cable not secured correctly, needs reporting
Point 3: Where is the immersion heater located, what method of installation is used and what type of cable and what type of protection, is there RCBO in palce?
Point 4: Board incorrectly labelled needs attention.
Your friend needs to inform the landlord about the above points, the landlord has a legal responsibility to ensure the electrical installation is safe.
If they do not, they can be quite heavily fined.
If they fail to address the issues, contact the council, in my experience they get on with it then!
 
Point one: damaged accessory/enclosure needs reporting, regardless of wiring.
Point two: cable not secured correctly needs reporting
Point 3: Where is the immersion heater located, what method of installation is used and what type of cable and what type of protection, is there RCBO in palce?
Point 4: Board incorrectly labelled needs attention.
Your friend needs to inform the landlord about the above points, the landlord has a legal responsibility to ensure the electrical installation is safe.
If they do not, they can be quite heavily fined.
If they fail to address the issues, contact the council, in my experience they get on with it then!

thanks for reply, and to other guy above :D
cable is grey, its not flex, i guess 2.5mm (this is to the new socket) don't remember immersion size exactly, but it hadn't melted in the 2 months he's been there! haa.
The immersion is in an airing cupboard, it looked like the immersion was originally connected in/hardwired ok, into a plate with a single switch on the wall (no light on it though - i'm used to seeing them with lights on), but then the switch plate cover on wall was hacked about at the bottom, huge gap, and cable comes out of there, all across airing cupboard to the socket on the other side! haha, just the fact from there to the new socket has no earth, if it gets knocked, touches the pipe..would not be too good, let alone if a fault developed. I'm no electrician but just needed confirmation :D
as for RCBO, nope, just one RCD on the whole board, which is for the sockets in the rest of the place. Circuit board looks very old. It looked like the RCD was added on to the board at a later stage. This does do sockets..but not the immersions "newly made socket"
Whoever did it is a genius, they even torched the cupboard when they soldered the pipe fittings.
Hope that made some sense, text kept going weird as i typed!
Thanks again.
 
As stated before the switch for the immersion heater has been damage also sounds like access to live parts without removing cover is possible. These are non-compliances and must be reported to the landlord and must be improved. The switch for the immersion heater should ideally have some form of indication when it is on/off. A spur should not be taken for the spurred socket and the socket must have an earth (CPC) core and RCD protection anyway.
But photos would help as requested by Lectrician
 
you need to stop letting that old adage get in the way a little knowledge is a dangerous thing stop taxing your brain phone landlord installation is dangerous the fact you have been meddling does not mean anything the "professional" who fitted pump should be barred from carrying out work and you should stick to your day job
 

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