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fellas,
In my opinion the house i am working on at the moment, the suppliers side of things is in bog order.
16mm tails from an ancient looking box, no modern cut out fuse in sight, virtually non existent bonding.
The work i have just first fixed is completely independent of this consumer unit.
A new ringmain, a lighting circuit, fan, smoke alarm (batt back up)
Fed from a garage type consumer unit, 32A and 6A, 63A RCD 30Ma.
This in turn fed from a seperate 40amp breaker near the main consumer unit.
The 16mm meter tails were fed into a henley, 25mm from CU into henley, and a spare way left over
(henleys already there)
Few questions.
1) Would you juice this circuit up on 16mm tails, and then advise customer to seek an upgrade, or would you not juice up at all?
(PS this property is a 6 bed detached with about 4 dining rooms and a football size kitchen)
2)Im happy with writing a certificate for my work, after 2nd fix next week though, he wants me to start work on all the other circuits that have been removed, they are hanging off the wall, and nothing seems what it should be, also walking around this house there seems to be a JB in every other corner, with loose wires....
The consumer unit is jam packed with about 12 circuits and not one is identified
To be honest lads, i dont really fancy this job, but im stuck with it, how would you approach it, would you insist on a PIR first...??
any advice appreciated
In my opinion the house i am working on at the moment, the suppliers side of things is in bog order.
16mm tails from an ancient looking box, no modern cut out fuse in sight, virtually non existent bonding.
The work i have just first fixed is completely independent of this consumer unit.
A new ringmain, a lighting circuit, fan, smoke alarm (batt back up)
Fed from a garage type consumer unit, 32A and 6A, 63A RCD 30Ma.
This in turn fed from a seperate 40amp breaker near the main consumer unit.
The 16mm meter tails were fed into a henley, 25mm from CU into henley, and a spare way left over
(henleys already there)
Few questions.
1) Would you juice this circuit up on 16mm tails, and then advise customer to seek an upgrade, or would you not juice up at all?
(PS this property is a 6 bed detached with about 4 dining rooms and a football size kitchen)
2)Im happy with writing a certificate for my work, after 2nd fix next week though, he wants me to start work on all the other circuits that have been removed, they are hanging off the wall, and nothing seems what it should be, also walking around this house there seems to be a JB in every other corner, with loose wires....
The consumer unit is jam packed with about 12 circuits and not one is identified
To be honest lads, i dont really fancy this job, but im stuck with it, how would you approach it, would you insist on a PIR first...??
any advice appreciated
