DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
Bad ‘Electricians’
Regulations broken: BS7671:2008 Reg 522.8.4; 522.6.1;521.10.1; 522.6.5;522.8.14; 527.5.1

We were on site converting an old gravity feed boiler with a combination boiler and came across this mess of wiring in the boiler room. The boiler room is now located in the old outside loo so the wiring passes through the supporting wall and goes direct to the light and light switch. continue

DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
Bad ‘Electricians’
Regulations broken: BS7671:2008 Reg 526.6, 530.4.1; 421.7, 526.5; 416.2.1; 514.1.2; 514.14.1

How many safety issues can you count here? Whatever the count is there are more issues here than we photographed. What you can see here is the (connector strips or chocolate block) that is uncovered and LIVE! This area under the homeowners stairs is where the children store their toys and bike helmets! But wait! There’s more. continue

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Bad DIY ‘Electricians’
Regulations broken: BS7671:2008 Reg 411.3.1.2

While chatting with the owner of a local plumbing shop earler this week we were sked if we could sort out a small issue. One of the circuit breakers trips every time they turned on the wall mounted heater. We ha a quick look to see what we could see. YIPES!! We wish we hadn’t looked. continue

DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
Wave after Wave after Wave of Bad ‘Electricians’
Regulations broken:

One of our clients rang us a couple of weeks ago to do a few minor electrical jobs in a new house he had purchased to rent out. The property is located in Salford, Manchester and a license is required before the new owner can rent the property. In order to get that license one of the items Salford Council requires is a Periodic Inspection Report or PIR. We went over to undertake that inspection and were surprised at just how many faults we found. continue

DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD

Bad Electrics

We were called in to look at a plumbing problem during a short period of tie when this rental property was empty. We sorted out the lack of hot water within a few minutes but were appalled at the state of the electrical system based upon a visual check only. We informed the landlord and came back to make repairs. continue

DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD

Bad – Kitchen Fitters

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The original request at this property was to replace the bathroom appliances, move the tub and add a shower, install some new lighting, put in a shower extractor, add a razor socket, change the radiator and add a wet towel warmer with electrical backup and then tile. Sounds easy enough but the moving of pipe work led to finding issues with the previous ‘plumber’s’ work, we found DOZENS of electrical faults throughout the house and newly installed consumer unit that were a mix of both major and minor problems and we found this kitchen that was fit by a large national company that rhymes with P U.

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Location: Whitefield, Gtr Manchester, Lancs

Date: July-Aug 2009

Description: We were originally asked if we could replace just the appliances in this bathroom and we said ‘of course we would.’ When we arrived to view the job it turned out that the home owner had already removed the bathtub and flooring and another builder had added some velux windows. The job was to relocate the tub from the left side of the room to the right side so that a mixer shower could be added. We would also add a shower screen, new basin, toilet, radiator and add a towel warmer, extractor, new lights and a razor point. With that in mind we went away while the home owner purchased the bits they liked.

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