sockets moved - how to fill holes
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Well John, crimped joints inside an enclosure is not against the regs, only your personal preferences. But if it isn't a metal box then it can't be considered an enclosure anyway, so the point is academic.
I wonder it the situation could be rescued with some retermination and a lot of heatshrink? Obviouly cable replacement would be best.
I wonder it the situation could be rescued with some retermination and a lot of heatshrink? Obviouly cable replacement would be best.
Yes and non-compliant
What type of certificate and out of interest does this circuit have RCD protection?
This for starters
Are you saying you can't have a plastic enclosure?
If using a metal enclosure with unsheathed cables then it needs to be earthed, the one in the pic doesn't appear to me to be.
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I don't even think that inaccessible crimped joints not in an enclosure are necessarily against the regs.
Anyway, as you realise, I wasn't really talking about regs. Would you be happy to have crimped joints made by the perpetrator of that work not only seriously inaccessible, but with the skirting made good so well that no-one would even have a reason to suspect that anything electrical (other than cables) was going on behind it?
I don't think it would take too much to 'rescue' the situation - at least to an extent I would personally be happy with. Whether I would necessarily trust the person who did the original work to do the 'rescuing' is a rather different matter!
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I wasn't saying it has to be metal, only that I had expected a metal box (they didn't make plastic boxes when they make skirting like that) and that the OP says there isn't a box there.
In view of what we've seen, that might be a little worrying - any chance of a picture of the new consumer unit and its surroundings?
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Get the electrician back to resolve this!
If they have issued an EIC with schedules of inspections, they have likely lied on it!
Which their scheme provider will not be over happy about!
Will go and take a picture now...
A bit of background to the house. We had a survey done when moved in. One of the areas flagged was the electrics needed looking at as the consumer until was very old.
We had two electricians come round to have a look. Both confirmed we needed a new consumer unit as we had three old units (one for one socket in the kitchen, one for the rest of the house and one that was stillive for the heaters in the house - heaters were removed years ago). They also said that we didn't need a total rewire.
After going with one of the quotes the electrician found loads of dodgy work around the house which he fixed - Bathroom light was attached to the shower, telephone line was running through the alarm cable, outside light was exposed and light.
He fixed all these things so i was happy we were getting things fixed and i didn't have to worry.
A bit of background to the house. We had a survey done when moved in. One of the areas flagged was the electrics needed looking at as the consumer until was very old.
We had two electricians come round to have a look. Both confirmed we needed a new consumer unit as we had three old units (one for one socket in the kitchen, one for the rest of the house and one that was stillive for the heaters in the house - heaters were removed years ago). They also said that we didn't need a total rewire.
After going with one of the quotes the electrician found loads of dodgy work around the house which he fixed - Bathroom light was attached to the shower, telephone line was running through the alarm cable, outside light was exposed and light.
He fixed all these things so i was happy we were getting things fixed and i didn't have to worry.
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Crimping is fine, but what I would have done is used heat shrink over the lot, so that the hole in the skiring can be filled. Crimps on their own like that would need some form of enclosure, I wouldn't want to bury crimped joints unless I've used some thick heatshrink.
So, it's not necessarily bad or dangerous, just not really what any of us here would have done. But there are always problems that people can face with modifications to an old installation and it's easy to pick holes in work that isn't your own.
So, it's not necessarily bad or dangerous, just not really what any of us here would have done. But there are always problems that people can face with modifications to an old installation and it's easy to pick holes in work that isn't your own.
Sorry, mistype. Some wiring for an old light had been cut and was exposed on the side if the house. Wiring was still live.
Picture with CU visor down showing MCBs, are the spares blanked or exposed?
Has the unit one RCD or two, difficult to tell as the pictures are shaded.
Has the unit one RCD or two, difficult to tell as the pictures are shaded.
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