Rewiring without back boxes

What happened in the end?

 

It sank!

 

Yea must be a nightmare.

Looks like the company will want to rectify the faults, but would still leave with the making good to be cleared up.

They probably have done poor previous work and so are already aware of the process.

 

I would be going for a full refund full stop. I would never trust those people in my gaff and would be looking for pukka electricians to start the job again. Thank goodness I can do all of my own electrical work - sparks? flipping heck.

 

These companies hire unskilled people with prob one qualified spark amongst them do a van test and no pride whatsoever in their work

 

It is disgusting, we are working on a 4 storey house at the minute, its full of furniture and boxes, its red hot and today we discovered there is hardboard down over the floorboards which has made it even more of a sod to do, yet we are still doing everything by the book, it would be unfair on the customer to do anything less.

A few cowboys need to go to prison to get the message across, but alas the scam providers are too busy counting their cash to do anything about it.

 

Tell us more, FFF - how did this work out?

 

Well I'm sick to death of it now,it would seem that very few of the new breed of "electricians" take pride in their work. I was fitting an alarm recently in the corner shop,when the new guy took over I was offered all the upgrade work but declined it.You wouldn't believe the mess! Cables just thrown in across a new suspended ceiling,joints in new cables with connector block,and they've not even put tape around them,let alone an enclosure! I found 2 bare ends above the ceiling,the new board I fitted 3 years ago looks like a bomb's gone off in it,some of the breakers have 4 cables going into them.There's a chiller cabinet that had a 5 core YY cable on it,he's cut 2 wires off and because it won't fit into a normal plug top he's stripped it back about 6 inches and taped it to a piece of cable with a moulded plug attached.I'd say less if he'd done a decent job with the tape,but oh no,he's just twisted the cores together and put a bit of tape around the joint in each conductor.There's an SY coming off a breaker in the board,no gland,no earth to braid and it goes directly into a split fridge unit,no local isolation either.I,ve done a few bits for the shop owner but he wants me to reconnect an immersion heater that has been disconnected in the board,there's no way I'm touching it.I'm not carrying the can when it all goes wrong.

 

I've seen a lot of **** work over the years but these days its beyond a joke mate all the bull **** with 17th and part P dont mean a flying fig.

 

Flying fig:

I think the current trend is for shaving them these days...

 

Have got this resolved yet

 

Be surprised if they take you to court if anything they owe you for distress they caused, would they want their bad workmanship to shown in court

 

May be a good idea to speak to a local litigation solicitor, may be a bit costly, but will help write the first letter together with the breaches, and set out what you would like as an end result, this will show that you are serious on the matter an want it resolving.

Don't think the co will go through courts as will just end up wasting everyone time and money.

 

bunch of **** chancers keep going and dont back down