Nightmare lighting installation circa 1966-1977

[securespark]

ARRRRGGHHHHH!!!!!

 

[kkynaston]

When were you at my house?

 

[securespark]

Not Shropshire, Staffordshire!

 

[Space cat]

It could have been worse. Some penny-pinching git could have saved on boxes by twisting all the earths together outside.

PS: Did you take the lids off yourself or is that how you found it. I ask because there aren't enough lids to go round.

 

[securespark]

No, we took the lids off. There's another out of shot.

As for the cpc's outside the jb's, they had those, too!!

 

[NewOrder]

Whats wrong with it? Just that its a mess and its impossible to know what wire does what? Or is dangerious>?

 

[securespark]

It's just typical of that era. Many many cables, all terminated in difficult-to-access junction boxes rather than loop-in. Some terminals have 6 conductors in. The terms can't cope: the grub screws go cross-threaded.

Also, the (already very shallow) joists have very deep notches cut out of them, with no protection for the cables from penetration.

 

[NewOrder]

I thought loop in ceiling roses have been common for years, I never realised they are fairly recent. At least our 14th edition install has loop in roses.

 

[kkynaston]

It could have been worse. Some penny-pinching git could have saved on boxes by twisting all the earths together outside.

Exactly what I found yesterday whilst preparing for the new boiler to go in. Upstairs,downstairs, outside light and 1 extra in 1 JB with the earths dangling outside the JB.
All tidied up now with new JB's and separate circuits for up and down