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Once again we are faced with a recently purchased property (Cant electrician get this COC thing right)
A few challenges we are facing:
1/ Spot lights mounted on a beam, it sounds simple, it is, each light has a connector block next to the fitting screwed directly to the beam and even though the spotlights are metal, no earth wire connected. Some might argue that they are out of arms reach and a ladder is required to gain access to them.
2/ Downlights with "exposed wires", one of the most common things you will see on domestic properties. Why are they a code violation, because the wire is not double insulated, and they cannot be compressed in the wire clamp.
3/ Looped neutral, this is an interesting one. The red wires are connected to 3 circuit breakers, but there is only one neutral wire. there are ceiling fans and no double pole isolators, therefore they must be connected to the ELU.
4/ Mixed wires, alarms wires, Cabtyre and Twin all in the same conduit. This is also becoming a common practice, people pulling the alarm down the switch conduit, then drilling a hole out the box to fit a door mag or PIR.
5/ Junction boxes with no IP rating buried in the ground, full of mud. They dont trip because it must have been tripping so all the earth wires are cut.
the list goes on......
A few challenges we are facing:
1/ Spot lights mounted on a beam, it sounds simple, it is, each light has a connector block next to the fitting screwed directly to the beam and even though the spotlights are metal, no earth wire connected. Some might argue that they are out of arms reach and a ladder is required to gain access to them.
2/ Downlights with "exposed wires", one of the most common things you will see on domestic properties. Why are they a code violation, because the wire is not double insulated, and they cannot be compressed in the wire clamp.
3/ Looped neutral, this is an interesting one. The red wires are connected to 3 circuit breakers, but there is only one neutral wire. there are ceiling fans and no double pole isolators, therefore they must be connected to the ELU.
4/ Mixed wires, alarms wires, Cabtyre and Twin all in the same conduit. This is also becoming a common practice, people pulling the alarm down the switch conduit, then drilling a hole out the box to fit a door mag or PIR.
5/ Junction boxes with no IP rating buried in the ground, full of mud. They dont trip because it must have been tripping so all the earth wires are cut.
the list goes on......
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