Moulded-on 13A plugs going bad

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Odd they come with a fitted plug?

Good idea not to believe what you read in it, then.

[John Rumm]

ok, so now you hear that your tenant had his own electrican look at the situation, and he said that because of the state of the socket it was unsafe to use in that condition and represented a fire risk. As a result he replaced it there and then. The tenant is happy to waive the cost of the reapir since it saved him major inconvenience.

What you going to do, evict them?

[John Rumm]

Well that does explain it better...

[John Rumm]

That could get someone into hot water ;-)

[Roland Perry]

In message , at

12:32:06 on Sun, 5 Nov 2017, John Rumm remarked:

Yes, it highlights how you can't tell the difference between the electrical skills of accountants vs their appointed sparkies.

[Roland Perry]

In message , at

12:32:00 on Sun, 5 Nov 2017, John Rumm remarked:

Except I'm not an electrician qualified to sign all the paperwork.

Hold on - who is doing the replacement: the tenant himself, his unqualified friend, or the tenant's qualified electrician?

Charge them for having a qualified electrician come in and test the installation and sign it off as compliant.

[ARW]

So who pays if your electrician finds out that the work is compliant?

[Tjoepstil]

He does. Work not signed off is work not completed

[Steve]

I came across a 1mm lighting circuit on a 16A MCB. I was a bit puzzled until I found they'd spurred a socket off the lighting circuit to supply a oil filled rad in the conservatory.

[ARW]

And I disconnected the immersio0n circuit (after making a proper ring circuit from the other cables) as I was unable to identify what it fed.

Ditto for the 6mm 32A cooker circuit.