Hi all,
I got an EICR done just to check how the electrics were in my house as it hadn't been done for about 5 years by the previous owner and few issues have come up. Some expected and some not expected and that were not considered issues on the previous report. The electrician wants to quote me to sort them all so I just wanted to run it past some other electricians to see if he's taking me for a bit of a ride or if the previous EICR was too lax.
1. The surface mounted fused spur for the boiler has the cable going into the top of it through the standard knock-out holes that cables usually go through in a surface mounted fused spur. He says dust could get in and cause a fire so it needs to be replaced (photo attached).
2. The meter tails have the secondary insulation cut back slightly where they enter the meter and also where they enter a henley block so that you can see the blue and brown primary insulation. This appears to have been done deliberately to make it obvious which is live and neutral and I've looked at a friends house and it was the same there too. He says this is a fail and wants to replace the tails?
3. There's a swa cable that runs outside along the wall to a secondary bathroom water heater. Its enters a round metal water tight junction box just before it enters in through the wall. It's correctly glanded with a swa gland but there's a short section (5cm) of twin and earth coming from the other side of the junction box that is exposed before it goes in through the wall. He said that was a C2 fault but the previous electrician had said it was a C3 because it was such a small length so wasn't potentially dangerous so wasn't a C2? He want's to replace the swa cable but surely there's a simpler solution? Could I just add some trunking or conduit or something like that to protect it from the UV and damage (it's not in direct sunlight however)? Sorry I forgot to take a photo of this but I'll add one later.
I look forward to hearing your opinions!
I got an EICR done just to check how the electrics were in my house as it hadn't been done for about 5 years by the previous owner and few issues have come up. Some expected and some not expected and that were not considered issues on the previous report. The electrician wants to quote me to sort them all so I just wanted to run it past some other electricians to see if he's taking me for a bit of a ride or if the previous EICR was too lax.
1. The surface mounted fused spur for the boiler has the cable going into the top of it through the standard knock-out holes that cables usually go through in a surface mounted fused spur. He says dust could get in and cause a fire so it needs to be replaced (photo attached).
2. The meter tails have the secondary insulation cut back slightly where they enter the meter and also where they enter a henley block so that you can see the blue and brown primary insulation. This appears to have been done deliberately to make it obvious which is live and neutral and I've looked at a friends house and it was the same there too. He says this is a fail and wants to replace the tails?
3. There's a swa cable that runs outside along the wall to a secondary bathroom water heater. Its enters a round metal water tight junction box just before it enters in through the wall. It's correctly glanded with a swa gland but there's a short section (5cm) of twin and earth coming from the other side of the junction box that is exposed before it goes in through the wall. He said that was a C2 fault but the previous electrician had said it was a C3 because it was such a small length so wasn't potentially dangerous so wasn't a C2? He want's to replace the swa cable but surely there's a simpler solution? Could I just add some trunking or conduit or something like that to protect it from the UV and damage (it's not in direct sunlight however)? Sorry I forgot to take a photo of this but I'll add one later.
I look forward to hearing your opinions!
