DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
Bad ‘Building Works and Electrics’
Regulations broken: BS7671:2008 522.8.4, 522.6.1, 522.2.1, 528.3.1, 522.6.8, 522.8.14

This weeks winner was uncovered while on site to undertake an unrelated and simple plumbing job. Upon arrival at the property I noticed two flues (one boiler for hot water and another boiler for central heating)  emerging from the brickwork. This quick look while walking up the drive uncovered several safety  sissues that need to be resolved.

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Upon first look you can see that the flue which is too close to the car port roof structure and has in fact already melted the roof panels. This was caused by who ever put up the car port. The water heater is in fact installed correctly. In this case the builder broke the regulations by putting the roof too close to the flue.

The outside wiring too is an issue. The un-clipped and unprotected PVC power source for the garage pops out of the side of the house and is drooped over the unearthed metal parts of the security light frame and the car port to run just under the hot flue. From the look of the old broken cable ties the cable used to be tightly attached to the unearthed metal car port and ran OVER TOP of the hot flue. So no matter how it was run it was always incorrect and unsafe.

The correct solution for this mess is to remove the car port thus sorting out the flue issue that was created by putting up the car port or move the hot water heater to another location. The electrics can really only be sorted by removing what is there and installing a properly protected run of cable preferably using an underground SWA.

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