It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Bob Eager" saying something like:
Who would take seriously the opinion of somebody named after a surgical appliance?
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:32:00 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon strung together this:
You can spend days there, I have!
It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Lurch saying something like:
I think some of the perpetrators should be spending time somewhere else.
In message , Tony Bryer writes
I'll second that. My present house had been seriously DIY'd by the previous owner and that included a 7kW shower. Fed with 2.5T&E from the CU and with a fused spur just out side the shower room. The 13A fuse blew after 3 or 4 showers, I imagine it didn't blow immediately because the volts drop in the cable was such that the current wasn't much above
13A anyway. After replacing the cable the shower was a heck of a lot hotter. The rest of the wiring, plumbing etc. wasn't much better either. When I took a close look at a stud wall it was over the carpet of the room it was dividing, he hadn't even bothered to lift it before constructing the wall. The most amusing one was the over flow from the toilet cistern, pipe entered the wall but didn't exit it on the other side.
Its a weird situation with that site. Joe T is trying to get these practices acted on, or in some cases just made illegal, but no-one is interested in his lead for one simple reason: accidents just arent happening with abandoned installs. Although they look real dangerous, no disasters means no resources spent on sorting it out. And he doesnt seem to get that.
NT
My parents' next door neighbour, an elderly ledy in her 80s, had an electric shower (8.5kW) installed by an NICEIC-registered contractor. He spured out of the socket on the landing, up in a piece of MT1 trunking inside the bathroom, via a 45A pull-cord, into the shower. All done in
1.0mm 3c+e. The problem came to light when the RCD wouldn't stay in, possibly due to the congealed mess the cable was in. Took all of 1 hour to run the correct cable back to the board, and do the missed bonding. I suggested that she report it top NIC, but she preferred to get her sons to deal with the gentleman concerned!
My mother-in-law's neighbour (a few years ago) would have asked her twin sons to deal with him. Yes, a Mrs Kray...
contractor. He
trunking
bonding. I
Sheet. Yet again, its the pros that need watching as often as not.
NT
because
13A fuses will hapily supply a great deal more thn 13A, just not for very long. 7kW= 29A, so I'm not surprised it worked for a bit. Wire fuses are generally rated so they will supply the rated load forever, in a heatwave summer.nowt wrong wi that lad.
Lol. Really cisterns should use overflows that go down the pan, seems more sensible. I guess folk wouldnt be so rushed to fix problems though.
NT
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