no reading on earth

Hi sorry just at work. Will take the pics to night. The guy is just a sole trader. Thats why he said about bc sign it off. I just cant pay for a rewire but need the eletrics safe. I have been done in the past and just hope not now.


I really am glad of the help
 
The bc are coming offer the job to test. I think it's missing earth but then I don't get why there is reversed and it's not coming up with missing earth
The only way those socket testers can detect L/N reversal is by looking at the voltages between L&E (should be there) and N&E (should not be there).

If it detects what you say is happening: L-E=0, N-E>0 it will decide that L&N are reversed.


I paid because he fitted a lintal.
You paid who? Building Control? Him?

If the former, what was the scope of the work notified? What was said to Building Control about the way that compliance with Part P would be achieved? What did they say about who they wanted to do any testing and inspection and issuing of an Electrical Installation Certificate?

Why did you have a (supposed but looking like he wasn't) electrician doing structural building work? Alternatively, why did you have a builder replace a CU?


I have been done in the past
How do you usually go about choosing people to do work for you?
 
So it look like I have a earth problem then. If the guy said he cant get 230v from live 2 earth. I think that is what he said. But also he said about 24v on earth at times.
 
Iv got 230 live neutral. Nothing on the earth to live and some volts
On the earth to neutral.
So this is what the "electrician" told you, not what you have measured yourself?


But also he said about 24v on earth at times.
24 volts with respect to what? And what was he measuring it with?


Basically you need to get a competent electrician to look at your installation as a matter of extreme urgency - it could be lethal.

As ever, personal recommendations are always the best way to find a reputable tradesman, but if you're having to go ahead without much in the way of those, or references, don't put any store by registration itself - sadly it is possible to become registered with woefully inadequate qualifications and zero practical experience. You don't have to spend long here to see people cropping up who are registered and "qualified", but who are clearly seriously incompetent in reality and who should not be charging for their services.

You were looking for someone to replace a CU, and it may surprise and dismay you to learn that it is quite possible to become a "certified electrician" without ever having done that before, and without having acquired any of the practical skills needed to do it without half-destroying your house in the process.

It's your money, £'00s of it, and you have every right to ask prospective tradesmen what their qualifications and experience are. Just being listed here is not a good enough guide. No genuinely experienced electrician, with the "full set" of C&G qualifications will mind you asking - in fact he will wish that everyone was like you.

I feel sorry for people who have been misled by training organisations and (shamefully) the Competent Person scheme organisers into thinking that a 5-day training course, a couple of trivial examples of their work and some basic understanding of how to use test equipment will make them an electrician, but not sorry enough to agree with them trying to sell their services to Joe Public.
 
You need to get a proper electrician in to check your installation. Don't wait for your BCO to send somebody round. The clown who changed your CU should have tested your circuits as part of the job. I hope you didn't pay for this.


BAS posts this stock reply on a regular basis, but it's not very helpful.

If you don't have a personal recommendation, the regeister is about as good as it gets for you. It's not perfect and the requirements to get onto the register should be stricter. There are people who get on here by the skin of their teeth, but most members are qualified and experienced.

As far as qualifications go, asking should not be a problem. However, I doubt that the answer would be meaningful.
 

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