While renovating a bathroom, I came across the original wiring in the loft for the bedroom and en-suite. Compared with the usual rat's nest in the rest of the house this was just such a joy to find. It dates from 1992-ish. Most professional electricians fail to impress, but... "Well done that man!"
R.
That is excellent. I wish I could say that I've been that tidy and thoughtful!
You are very lucky to have had someone properly label stuff.
The most difficult bit to neatly wire is a CU full of RCBO. It should really have cable markers on every final circuit.
Nice job and not too hard to do with some time & patience. It is worth leaving some slack to enable future alterations/repairs/replacement. Especially for hard to reach or inaccessible fittings.
F
Could we use the pic on the wiki?
NT
Very rarely would a professional be paid for the time to do that.
Sure, go right ahead. I hereby place the copyright in the Public Domain.
R.
An electrician didn't do that - too neat
If one were being critical; a bit of sleeving on the black switch returns and fan neutral would have been nice.
It's great to see a properly dressed box. Not many people do it like that anymore. Hat's off to the installer.
They should all be done like that, and don't take any time at all if the tricks are punched in to the trainee frrom the start. Well.........They should still be punched into the apprentice...........They were when I was. :-)
lovely, cheers
NT
Nice - this was at Harry Beck's house, I'd guess?
LOL! I wonder what the underground SWA was like...
lovely, cheers
He said
Sure, go right ahead. I hereby place the copyright in the Public Domain.
But I had to look at the raw source code to read it for some reason.
Knowing the previous owners by repute, I pretty sure they didn't DIY it, but there are other non-prof pointers, some of the plumbing was very amateurish. It could have been an apprentice's test job, of course. "Just once in your life do it right, you useless lummock!" "OK, I'll show you..." :-)
R.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember TheOldFellow saying something like:
getting corrupted by sloppy work practices. Sure as shit wasn't somebody who was getting paid a flat rate for the day/job.
It might even have been the previous owner.
I think my plumbing was DIY. It's painstakingly done with attention to detail, but with an awful lot of soldered elbows. And gatevalves everywhere :-(
Owain
That's how we were trained to do it *many* years ago, when I was a student apprentice with Norweb. The training was at Lancaster College.
Of course, I've never wired like that since... :-)
It takes very little time to do things properly like that.
And there is space to have all the wires spread out a little more instead of in the bundles. Curiously the earths appear to have been done last as they are on top of everything else. I'd do them first as they won't change if things need to be altered later, live, switched live and neutrals will.
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