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oh my
gosh right guys morning i wasn't gonna
film today but um
this installation is shockingly bad i
thought i had to show it you guys
so i'm doing some testing here
um
the client has spent hundreds of
thousands of pounds
this flap they've spent hundreds of
thousands of pounds getting this flat up
to a good standard look you can see the
finishes lovely floors
and then so-called electrician builder
man
has come in
and
this is what i'm faced with
okay
it's all mineral insulated cables in the
back there onto a metal old metal
consumer unit
but they've brought no earthing forward
into this board
so i don't actually know how that
earth is carrying through to this new
fuse board there's a main earth there's
no gas no water bonding and i'll just
show you a few other things that we've
found
so it's mineral insulated cable there's
no
earthen in the actual mineral then
they've just jammed twin earth in
no sleeving on anything whatsoever
the lady said to the builder i don't
want any cables on show and she said
there was trunking and stuff everywhere
so they dropped the ceiling down here
um so there's joint boxes above a
ceiling that i can't get to because this
is a first floor flat so there's a solid
ceiling above here
the list just goes on they've got a
brand new um
brand new kitchen fitted
50 60 000 pound
there's no isolation switch for the oven
there's there's a dishwasher there i
can't
see how it's fed
they've had a new boiler fitted they've
had new sockets fitted but it's all old
wiring i mean i'm just getting into this
but i will show you later on i can't
find the main stock there's no bond
to it
there's no bond to the gas
they've they've done some sort of joint
boxing here then ran some metal uh
plastic conduit
to extend these sockets so i'm yet to
get into those
but yeah as i go around i just find
nightmare after nightmare um
again in here they've done all this um
so the builder actually cut a cable that
was nice of him so he then had to put
mini trunking on the ceiling
and then if you see
how straight that mini trunk it actually
is look
not at all just goes on an angle like
that
so he had to refeed this light off of
this corridor light so she didn't want
any trunking anywhere
um
what the hell this is doing is this just
a token billy ball
like earth like what
what are you doing there like that
dives out that wall and just goes into a
random bin store don't know where it
goes
they've tagged off the fan here
off of what i don't know yet
um
yeah
there's the fan
nothing has been certified so they've
got me into doing the icr
and it is just completely
shocking um one good thing i've got to
do is just move this cable look the
builder left that
finished job left that i've got i just
reboot it in that cupboard
fix the phone back there basically just
get rid of that cable
it's just um a total nightmare and
i'm going to tell her that this just
needs rewiring she's not going to be
happy because this is finished look
everything's finished
and i'm now going to tell her that she
needs a full rewire
because the cables are 30 plus years old
why the how does she not just spend
three or four thousand pounds it's only
a one bedroom flat you know
to do electrical they drop the ceilings
anyway so you could rewire the light in
fairly easy
uh
i'm just
anyway
so a lot of people say can you show some
sort of testing so when i get into the
actual test inside
um
of this job
i will i will show you some methods that
i'm using but i'm not convinced that i'm
actually going to be able to do much
testing here because
they've just crimped
twin ear forward onto the old mineral
insulated cables in the back of there so
i'm not actually sure that i'm going to
be able to get any readings whatsoever
on this job but i'll try my best but um
yeah
why do people do stuff like this i mean
they've had someone come in to do work
and clearly
they don't know what they're doing and
the client is now suffering because of
it um
why don't they just get the right person
in
at the start of the job and the builder
should tell him look you need to have
this rewired why are they not saying
that to them
so the reason this job arose the lady
got in contact with me and she said
what i want is some led lighting under
the cupboards here um and i just came in
and was like wow you've spent so much
money um
you know it was expensive and she just
sort of went through things i said who
was the electrician that
she said i'm not sure there was one it
was sort of electrical lead builder i
said oh that's fair enough i said
do you know where they put the isolation
switch for the oven and she goes you
know i don't know and then i sort of had
a little poke around and stuff and i was
looking at stuff and
you just you just find
stuff
like like that and i mean where does
that go that's a built-in fridge
anyway i'm going off on on the tandem
because i'm just getting so frustrated
with this job um so yeah i come to do
one small thing um so you want an led
light under there and i said yeah we
could i could come off of here i just
want to check your board yes rcd
protected great
bloody blah and then when you actually
look at everything it's complete crap um
i'm so glad i didn't come here and do
work because i would have just
found a complete can of worm so i said
to alert you you need the full test on
the installation before i'm going to
come and touch it so i'm glad i've done
that because at least my day's covered
to come here test it and tell her i'm
not coming back here so
um yeah i won't be doing your lights
unfortunately but
you know i'll give her the report and
everything i find i will give her i'll
give her a cost for remedials but she is
not going to be happy and i believe she
should
get some money back off the builder
because
um
he should be advising her i'm sorry he's
a builder he's a professional he should
be advising her and he should have an
electrician on his team that knows this
sort of stuff
superb
yep superb
superb
fantastic that pipes red hot
fantastic mate you are so good at your
job
you are so good at your job
so good at your job
why why
why
what the hell is that hey
complete enough joke of a job this is
why
that's nice
where does it go nobody knows
what does it do
nobody knows
i actually cannot believe
i just thought i'd take this switch off
just do a little just checking the
faceplates and then
what the hell
is this bloke actually serious
what the hell is that
what are you doing i'm not even gonna
touch that it's like connectors in the
wall
i'm gonna i am actually gonna stop
ranting on this job but
i'm just getting so peed off with this
job honestly everything i take off is
bad
it's complete rewire i'm sorry
right pretty much visual sort of
inspection of taking accessories off
sockets is now done and it's pretty much
failed um so i just thought i'd got i'd
get my um tester out just to try some
zs's at some sockets and stuff just to
you know just to see
what there is if they plug something in
what what they got so
let's have a look so generally at a
socket you know
240 volts 50 hertz
so
i plug this little baby in
and then my tester does the uh does the
goodness
169 volts 50 hertz test
okay
there you go
now you look that up in your book but to
me that's saying that i've got no
neutral
and no earth
so just out of interest
let me grab the old trusty
socket tester
and just see what this says
okay that isn't a good sound
we have got
live
neutral
what have we got missing earth so we've
got no earth
we've got actually no protective earth
on this socket whatsoever
no protective earth on this socket
whatsoever
that's uh beeping away
still not very convinced though
my little book just to confirm it
so we had p
we've got an n
p e h v caution presence of high voltage
between neutral
earth during att measurement att
function should be disabled to continue
measurements
i wonder what an acceptable um
zs is a socket
13.32
should we go and have a look at the book
all right so just come into my on-site
guide so we're on a 608.98
a b
32
1.1
i think that's failed as well don't you
this is
this is no word of a lie this has got to
be one of the worst
in stores um that i've come across so
that has been
bodged as well and it's really starting
to annoy me um
so he couldn't get his cable
uh he couldn't be bothered to get his
cable in the old hole there's no
knockout so he's bent he's launched the
metal socket out
um
and done that and and someone's been
here because you've got brand new colors
and it's a brand new socket so the build
has done this whoever has done this
where does that cable go does it go in
the ground does he put it under this
floor
this job is just completely utter
nightmare i'm now going to actually take
off every single socket now now i've
found that everything's coming off
again i've removed another socket um to
find that it's been
back entered i did say that there is
like a weird external conduit on the
back apparently the builder cut the
cable
so he's just left um just left ends in
there i'm not sure if that's actually
live i've not checked yet but again he's
gone back entry
um
and just there's no grommet or anything
and the cable actually is rubbing
the actual live cable is rubbing on that
box so
and there's probably no earth at this
socket either
direct into that one then
and that's i thought that was off
so i've just started my visual checks on
the lighting
they've had some brand new dal lighting
which is quite expensive good quality
lighting
um
so it's a metal fitting
um
no
no earth cut out he thought i'm not
going to use that i'll put connectors on
it he's chopped the earth out
so potentially
if this becomes live
you'll get electric shot
right so i've refixed the light back up
as you can see they've got another one
of those and another one of those and is
it even worth me taking those down
because
i know exactly what i'm going to find
it's exactly the same thing overboard
but that one is concrete so that might
have the original connections that one i
am actually going to check this one
has definitely been overboarded and
inaccessible joint box with no earth
surely there should be some sort of
isolation in here
for these tails
surely
scary isn't it
so
we've got a jeweled
dual rcd fuse board and
bathroom imperative that
anything in here is
protected by an rcd
and then you come to a metal light
fitting and
that's what you get
why
see what he's done
he's put the
um
they're not m4
um what are they called um
anyway he's put that screw into that old
box so
i'm actually gonna do another loop here
just out of interest
just to see what it comes back as but
yeah again what load of old
crap so i've just done an earth loop at
this light
and as you can see we've got 7.08
on the zs there
and if we go to our table again
6089a type b
6x
5.87
just another little query about this
light as you can see it is clearly in
the shower cubicle that ceiling height
from the shower cube
shower cubicle if you're studying there
is 2.1
so if we go to our little special
locations shower cubicles in a room used
zone one
two point two five
so we're clearly within zone one of that
uh shower cubicle there
and if you are in zone one
you need to be ipx4
protection
if i go to the fitting
we've got an ip rating of
44 there
i'll add it to the list
so i've just started to do my dead
testing at the fuse board um
or just looked what they've done is
they've made it look like a ring main
they've just bought the two browns out
of the same connector brought them into
the fuse board
so i'm trying to do like an end to end
um
continuity
on those ends and i'm getting zero ohms
because they're literally going back to
a connector
and i just can't test so
limitation
sockets in here these are the ones i've
got 100
odd volts at
if i screw
i've got a theory if i screw this one
back here where he spurred off of
well i've now screwed that socket back
just out of interest
let's see now if because i've now
screwed
that
back
if we get
a reading
at this socket now there you go
247 volts
because he connected the earth onto the
socket and when that socket's off the
wall
there's no earth on the back box and
it's reliant on the
mineral insulated for the earth so
unless that socket's screwed on these
two sockets have got 130 volts but
that's rectified now but it's still not
very good
i'm just back at this fuse board
that circuit is marked up as
water heater
i can't find where that goes so i've
left it off um they brought the cables
forward but i can't find where that goes
the lug on the fuse board is actually
broke off that's why that won't um screw
shut
just got
cables
flapping about that
that does a new cooker circuit
which is actually
i think that's four mil that isn't six
mil i think that's four mil
on a 32 i think
it might be six mil
i kind of losing the plot now on this
one to be honest with you
so as a token gesture i've put um
i've put some tape
on that so at least that cover isn't
going to be uh
hanging off now
i'm moving on to something that's
actually productive today i'm going to
move this little door entry system for
them so just a little tip take a picture
of this with your phone
and then what you want to do is is
individually snip
each core
and what they'll do is that will leave a
little color tab back for you so you
know where to connect it in when you
re-route the cable
um you'll know exactly where to connect
it in
right that is it guys on this one sorry
it was a little bit all over the place
but i just wanted to document this how
bad this little flat is as you can see
i've now moved the cable it's not across
this doorway anymore it goes in and then
it's clipped down and around
that way to there anyway
it goes up there like that
yeah
i'll put a load of pictures at the end
of the video so you can just see what i
found and some of the stuff that we have
to uh we have to come across as
electricians so um
see on the next one
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