Moving fusebox 1-2m extending cables with connector blocks

[RobTi]

Was on a garage conversion and main board had to be moved approx 1-2m, so spark came in and just extended all the cables and reconnecting with connector blocks, need him to do mine and wondered if this was correct

Robert

 

[garythenab]

If the joints are accessable then it would be deemed acceptable. However, I as an electrician would never contemplate doing it. I would be looking for a more reliable, permanent joint ie crimped.

Personally I deem that to be a half job. I don't know of a single electrician that would do the job like that. Not a real spark anyway.

Hope this helps.

 

[RobTi]

Thanks for the reply will leave it then till i am next working next to a spark and ask them how they would do it, only reason i was going with him was he was signing off the job for building control and i thought if he was capable to sign off then he must be good.

Thanks again

Robert

 

[Taylortwocities]

If he used terminal strip connectors (aka choc blocks) then they must be inside an enclosure, of some sort.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

he was signing off the job for building control and i thought if he was capable to sign off then he must be good.

Sadly no.

He could have become registered without ever having to extend cables for a CU move before.

He could have become registered without ever having encountered or been told about anything except connector blocks. Crimps? DIN-rail terminals? ¿Que?

To become a registered electrician the amount of training, and the rigour of the test, that you need for the paper qualification is pitiful.

And the amount of real-world practical experience you need is SFA.

 

[RobTi]

If he used terminal strip connectors (aka choc blocks) then they must be inside an enclosure, of some sort.

Sorry no enclosure just around a dozen or so bits of connector strip for the joins then hidden behind a new plasterboard wall

Robert

 

[holmslaw]

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[ban-all-sheds]

then hidden behind a new plasterboard wall

Triple rough - they should be accessible.

Don't let this plonker anywhere near your house. He is not an electrician.

He may think he is, and some money-grubbing registration scheme may be happily agreeing with his delusion, but delusion it remains.

 

[FussyLady]

Don't think this is uncommon though.

We had a CU moved a few years back by an electrician (pre-part P I believe) - didn't feel it was something we should do ourselves!

Recently had the floor up and found a variety of "joins", mostly in junction boxes which I think would have been legal at the time, but a couple of lighting circuits had been joined on junction blocks. One junction block just lose, the other had been stuffed inside one of the junction boxes for a socket ring.

 

[garythenab]

If he is registered then he certainly isn't a full on contractor. Probably a domestic installer. But thats another story