Further to Simon H2's comments: In my experience, councils don't give a damn. Some officious idiot on an inflated salary will tick ALL the boxes no matter what the cost (to the public purse!) or the disruption to the public or individuals. It is high time that these cash-haemorrhaging zealots were forced to account for all expenditure, and publish it for the electors to see!
Rewire dimmer after council visit
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The op had an upgrade of their CU in their council property to comply with current regulations. They have carried out some diy electrics which are faulty and the safety device is doing it's job and switching off the power.Whats wrong with that ? If the council did not keep the property in good order, what would you say about that ?
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I'd love to know where the lights neutral was connected to. The suspense is tripping my RCD!!
That's not what the comment was aimed at - it was aimed at the anecdotes from myself and Ericmark. Ie, it was aimed at the council s with a policy of "rip and replace" regardless - even when what they are ripping out is perfectly safe, fairly new, and/or of better quality than what they are going to replace it with.
Eg, (anecdote from Ericmark) if there's a chandelier in place of the normal pendant fitting, and it's been fitted correctly, why insist of ripping it out and putting it in the skip (which as I pointed out, would be theft if any tenant had the nouse to pursue it) ?
Eg, (anecdote from a relative of mine) if the tenant has had the kitchen upgraded, and it's good quality and well fitted, why rip it out and fit some cheap crap in it's place ?
There's nothing wrong with dealing with anything that's substandard or faulty - there's a lot wrong with wasting money on forcing people to live in something "lesser spec" than they were. And, I would argue that there is a positive safety risk (albeit a small one) by altering the wiring twice every inspection (refit standard rose, tenant refits chandelier afterwards) when there's no safety risk at all in leaving the chandelier in place (provided it's fitted correctly).
I'll add that I live in an ex-council house. All I'll say is that the work done (central heating, rewire, double glazing) was most obviously "not done to the highest standards possible". All will have been done to a competitive quote - whoever could do the job at the lowest price gets it. It shows in all those little "lack of attention to detail" things. And as for the electrics, apart from replacing* the old slip conduit with T&E, they put no more sockets in any room than there had been before.
* Actually they didn't remove all of it. A lot was just left lying around, but all the light switches and the drops to the CU use the old conduit - with no protection from the sharp edges.
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