Check safety of wiring does this meet current safety regulations

I'm surprised you even had to ask if these bodgeups were safe. Of course they're not!
Any electrical connections that rely on being swathed in sticky tape are, by definition, unsafe
 
I have to ask as our building company are trying to say that whilst these are not 'best practice' they are perfectly safe, as we have a meeting with them tomorrow I wanted to seek an independant opinion, as we no doubt have many more of these that have been buried behind the plasterboard, so I am on an information gathering mission at this stage. Their electrician is I beleive newly NAPIT registered. It is really a question of what to do next, as the electrician I normally use (not this one) now has an additional problem of trying to wire in the electrical appliances on a circuit that is apparently not intended to take that many appliciances and trying to retrofit now all the plasterboaring is completed is a nightmare, any suggestions appreciated..
 
Couple more of work, any comments on whether cables are ok being run in that are not either horizontal or vertical? Is this also a safety issue, or is it compliant but not best practice?
 

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AGS50 said:
not 'best practice' they are perfectly safe
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I would push back on this, just looking at photo 1 I would view this as a breach of safe zone regs, as the wire makes an immediate 90 degree turn after exiting from the side.
I’m not an electrician but you are definitely being fobbed off.
If the cowboy electrician is NAPIT registered get your current electrician to document all the issues and then you report the cowboy to NAPIT.
If you have legal cover with your home insurance I would also start a claim against the building company and/or the electrician for dangerous workmanship.
Whether or not they’re new the idiot is going to get someone killed and needs to get a whack on the head.
 
AGS50 said:
Couple more of work, any comments on whether cables are ok being run in that are not either horizontal or vertical? Is this also a safety issue, or is it compliant but not best practice?
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*** is that a wire traversing diagonally across a wall and then pinched between the stud and plasterboard?! To be fair this might have been down to a dodgy dryliner.
And of course they forgot the grommets.
The tuna melt needs to be de-certified and sent back to college.
 
If the building company have any shred of interest in their reputation they would take one look at the photos, apologise and sort it out. That they are becoming defensive and fobbing you off makes me worry whatever else is being hidden. If this is the work you *can* see I would be insisting on the entire electrical works being redone by a new sparky.
 
Phases like "being safe" or "potentially dangerous" are not definable, 230 volt (low voltage) is always potentially dangerous, and we realise this, so really looking at whether the wiring is acceptable. It clearly does not comply with regulations, but the regulations are not law.

The rules and regulations tell us we must have items which alert us to where wires run, so we expect vertical and horizontal runs only. Which do not go around corners, and except for a pendent lamp, we should not be able to access live parts without using a key or tool, so insulation tape can be removed by simply unwrapping, so on its own it is non-compliant.

I have considered where self amalgamating tape is used, and the standard insulation tape is only used to stop it sticking to other surfaces, as to if compliant, but even if it is, it is not to a professional standard, and we should expect work done by a professional to be to a professional standard, even it it did comply with rules and regulations.

My comment would have been, OK we get an independent EICR done, if it passes I pay, if it fails you pay, As I can't see how that would pass.
 
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