We moved into our new home last December and we are now making changes to various things. When we moved in we noticed that the CU cover has been inspected and approved by a NICEIC member the year previous, so we assumed that all elctrics would be ok.
I have just chnaged the heating controls and isolated what I thought was the CH system at the CU, when I commenced work, whilst checking the cables I found it was still live. Through trial and error I eventually found the correct mcb. Not being happy with this I checked a few others and found to my horror that the mcb marked HW doesn't isolate the electric hw and it infact comes off a spur on the main ring. Who knows what other problems there may be.
How in depth are NICEIC inspections and are they worth it?
I have just chnaged the heating controls and isolated what I thought was the CH system at the CU, when I commenced work, whilst checking the cables I found it was still live. Through trial and error I eventually found the correct mcb. Not being happy with this I checked a few others and found to my horror that the mcb marked HW doesn't isolate the electric hw and it infact comes off a spur on the main ring. Who knows what other problems there may be.
How in depth are NICEIC inspections and are they worth it?