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These pictures show proven bad practice jobs carried out by contractor.
This area will be updated from time to time as we discover the jobs.
Cable has been installed too close to hot pipes and there is also no mechanical protection for the cable…
These junction boxes are designed for 4 cables to be terminated. The earth should be terminated inside…
Way 2 many cables in this box behind the socket.
The earths are terminated on a clamping point for holding the cabinate door frame in place, this is not…
Open top which will allow objexts to full inside the enclosure and the mechanical protect of the cables…
the colours of the conductors should not be on show because this reduces the mechanical protection of…
Conductors on show external from box.
Single Core PVC/PVC incorrectly stripped.
Incorrect polarity of conductors where they enter the RCD, Black and Red conductors wrong way round.
Outer sheath stripped back too far.
All this shjould be termniated in an enclosure due to potential fire risk and no Green/Yellow sleeving…
Individual strands removed which reduces the capacity of the cable.
Central heating systems always impress me with the lack of correct colour coding.
Cable entry has no grommet and singles have no protection.
Poor Mechnical protection
So how many screws does it take to hold a light fitting to the ceiling?
No grommets where the cables pass through a metal hole
Running cables close to a heat source, or even touching as in this case, changes the properties of cables…
Cutting the outer sheath back too much reduces the mechanical protection of cables.
The live loop conductors were left as seen, no termination what so ever.
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