Unbelievable! That's what I thought when I opened up this old one way fuse box.
I do not tend to comment on other electricians work but in this case I will make an exception. According to the customer that called me in to take a look at why his RCD kept tripping indoors, He said the other electrician, Who has now moved away, said that the installation was fine and the new ring main he had installed in the garage was also fine!
Well, as you can see from the picture I took there are problems and these are excluding the problems I found with the whole installation like feeding the fluorescent light from a socket! No fused spur in sight! If you can see in the picture, the cables at the top are, and I will use that word again!, unbelievable, The neutrals were not cut to the correct length, but worst of all the line conductors were not even screwed up as there were no screws in the terminal! And I will also point out, though I obviously do not even need to tell you this, One earth cable was sleeved but not connected to anything and the other was not even sleeved and was sitting above the live cables!
I am quite speechless about this one, Not because I haven't seen installs like this before, but because it was a so called electrician that had carried out this work.
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