Snags and solutions

[Scoby_Beasley]

of course i was even more upset when i realised it was me.

PMSL!! Had the same on a recent night bus. I was looking around for the bloke with white hair! (it still looks more black than white to me in the bathroom mirror)

 

[JohnW2]

I know what your saying John but there a lot of "look how clever i am - that last sparky was shi*e " type tradesmen about. I would just like to get in there first. Defuse the argument for them. Maybe its how we are programmed to think nowadays watch your a**e.

I totally agree and fully sympathise with your position - we live in a CYA world full of people looking for something to pick up on! I think it probably should be 'mentioned' (but probably verbally, or even in a separate 'covering note' - if they have not already got the message from all your swearing and moaning ), but I'm not so sure about writing about it on an 'official' certificate. If you 'record', presumably 'as an issue', something which is actually compliant with the regs, sceptical/paranoid consumers might accuse you of trying to 'generate unnecessary work' for some tradesman - and, in any event, if you did record any comments, they would presumably be pointing a finger at the tradesman who fitted the meter?

Kind Regards, John

 

[westie101]

I've seen that in a corner cupboard with the cut-out, meter and CU behind!
We usually make the customer dismantle the cupboard if we need to work in these locations

 

[RF Lighting]

Here's one for you westie

 

[EFLImpudence]

We usually make the customer dismantle the cupboard if we need to work in these locations

Different world.

 

[JohnW2]

I've seen that in a corner cupboard with the cut-out, meter and CU behind!

I presume you don't mean behind a gas meter

Kind Regards, John

 

[dingodeano]

from all your swearing and moaning

Kind Regards, John

You heard me be all the way in Bucks??

 

[dingodeano]

Here's one for you westie

i'll get me coat / tools...

 

[Scoby_Beasley]

Its made you the superspark you are today though.

Bloody Creep!

 

[dingodeano]

ha ha. No credit where its due though. seen his install pics?
Besides how many forum members you know got a mention in Electrical safety councils 'Best practice guides' ??

 

[JohnW2]

... from all your swearing and moaning

You heard me be all the way in Bucks??

Bad news travels long and fast

Kind Regards, John

 

[westie101]

I presume you don't mean behind a gas meter

Certainly do!

The meter & cut-out fuse poking through a board is quite common!

 

[securespark]

I've fitted much worse like all those bathroom basins I used to have to supplementary bond as an apprentice

My college lecturer taught us that it was OK if the airing cupboard was immediately adjacent to the bathroom to do all the supplementary in there.

 

[JohnW2]

I presume you don't mean behind a gas meter

Certainly do!

Goodness! Are the gas suppliers always the culprit, I wonder? (I would imagine that many old houses had gas supplies before electricity ones). Would some of your predecessors perhaps have installed an electricity supply behind a gas meter, since it was an available bit of outside wall?

Kind Regards, John

 

[mattylad]

And what had you done to your thumb? lol