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Trusty NICEIC and ELECSA contractors have been busy uncovering and rectifying dodgy installations and DIY botch jobs. Here are some of the worst offenders from the past quarter
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his issue’s round-up of shoddy installations and downright dangerous discoveries features: a light fitting that was permanently live with no RCD protection (1); a poorly designed junction box set-up in a newbuild property (2); a fire waiting to happen in a church (3); redundant distribution boards that turned out to be live (4); and the result of circuits being added to over time in a domestic property (5). It continues with: a live wire that was loose above a ceiling tile (6); a dangerous plug installation found on an EICR (7); LED tiles found without any junction boxes and with earths missing or not connected (8); a burnt-out shower pull switch (9); and the cause of a customer reporting electric shocks from pattress screws (10).
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8 Thanks to... >Gerald Chantler of GA Chantler Electrical Services in Ashford >Joseph Petros-Kaldani of Redcar firm JPK E&I Engineering Solutions >Martin Cheshire of CT Electrical Engineers in Atherstone, Warwickshire >Matthew Wilks of Testing Services Ltd in Heckmondwike >Neil Bradley of Tas Valley Home Improvements, near Norwich >Oliver Gray of Property Electrical in High Wycombe >Sunny Saggu of SS London Electrical Contractors >Simon Pountney of Problec Limited in Tamworth >Tim Barker from Nottingham firm TMB Electrical >Scott Fountain of Fountain Electrical in Bovindon, Hertfordshire.
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Keep those shots coming in! Email caughtoncamera@redactive.co.uk
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SUMMER 2019
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