No - we know for sure that he did not do the normal/standard INSPECTION.for all we know (for sure) at the moment, he may have done all of the other normal/standard "I&T".
No - we know for sure that he did not do the normal/standard INSPECTION.for all we know (for sure) at the moment, he may have done all of the other normal/standard "I&T".
They even do the fancy cable entry plates for the rear knockouts. On a board change with surface cables I'll usually knock out a couple of the top knockouts and use a piece of 50x50 to tidy everything up.[cough]Hager[/cough]
Really? He robbed you then. Are you going to let him get away with it?I paid an electrician to wire it in.
Oh dear.He did it as a foreigner so he won't be able to come back until the weekend.
One of the downsides of allowing an incompetent idiot to replace a CU.I've got a 3 year old and a 4 week old so being with out a oven and hob is s**t.
Yep - everything is fine. Until the next time you let an incompetent idiot into your house to fiddle with things they don't understand.Thank you for everyone's input and help. I've sorted the wiring out and the cooker and hob work now.
Yep - everything is fine.
We know for sure that he did not detect the error(s), but, for all we know, that could have been oversight/mistake, rather than a failure to inspect. Hands up all those who have never failed to 'miss' something!No - we know for sure that he did not do the normal/standard INSPECTION.
Are oversights and mistakes consistent with exercising reasonable skill and care, and good workmanship by a skilled person?We know for sure that he did not detect the error(s), but, for all we know, that could have been oversight/mistake, rather than a failure to inspect.
I don't think that "reasonable skill and care" can be taken as a demand for perfection. Human beings are far from infallible, no matter how skilled they are and how much care they exercise.Are oversights and mistakes consistent with exercising reasonable skill and care, and good workmanship by a skilled person?
The probability of overlooking/'missing' something during an inspection is not all that related to the nature of what it is that has been overlooked/missed. Indeed, it's quite often the 'most obvious' things that get missed.Expecting a CU to be wired without L/N crosses that trip RCDs when circuits are loaded is hardly expecting perfection.
I'm not going to try, because I've already said all that I have to say. We disagree, and that's fair enough.You're going to have to work a lot harder to convince me that missing something obvious is consistent with exercising reasonable skill and care, and good workmanship, by a skilled person.
For the sockets it's a vacuum cleaner, which is inevitably required anyway to clean up any mess. Or a kettle.
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