DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
Bad ‘Electricians’
Regulations broken: BS7671:2008: 132.12, 526.3, 134.2.1, 610.6, 631.1, 522.8.4, 526.9

This week highlights another newly purchased property which had some electrical work completed by the previous home owner. A built in wardrobe was installed many years earlier. Unfortunately it would have covered the only plug socket on that side of the room. The solution?

The solution for this joiner was to re-route the ring main to another location. The new double socket was chased into the wall and a piece of trunking ran from behind the wardrobe out to the new double socket. When we removed the wardrobe at the new home owners request we found the mess of electrical wiring we couldn’t see.

The trunking only ran far enough to look good. The PVC cable that could not be seen was left laying on top of the carpet. the same carpet which was not removed before the wardrobe was installed! The ring was reconnected at the old socket location and the connectors were just left hanging out of the wall.

Some may view that as a non-issue however consider that even if a human couldn’t get there fingers in there a pet certainly could. It’s unsafe and against the regulations. As I’ve observed again and again; joiners are not electricians!

We’ve removed the whole lot and put a new double socket where the single used to exist. All has been tested and all is safe.

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