One for the Electricians...

wallbash

so you would expect them to do a better job, unless I am the odd one here.

Until you can tell us why the installation is wrong, I will keep thinking that the professional has done an A1 job.

What in your opinion is the problem?
Is the socket in the wrong place? A picture showing a wider view may support your case.

Andy_L

phill79 wrote: »

No reason, just a rubbish install. What happens when the pole needs to come down, the only way to do it now is to unscrew the back box.
I really just wanted to make sure that what they have done hasn't breached any regulations.

Why would you want to take the pole off the wall?

Andy_L

wallbash wrote: »

Until you can tell us why the installation is wrong, I will keep thinking that the professional has done an A1 job.
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There's a load of dirt/grease on the bracket?

wallbash

Andy_L wrote: »

There's a load of dirt/grease on the bracket?

Do we know that the electrician caused that? Did it occur after the electrician had left?
Why should installing some wiring/sockets cause such a mess?

Still waiting for reason to doubt the guy.

sparkychris

As an electrician, I can't see anything wrong with this. Certainly can't think of any regs that it may be breaking and would probably do the same if that's where the customer wanted their socket placed. The trunking is safely tucked away and if the bracket were to be removed the trunking could be easily replaced without disconnecting any cable...

Would you expect the trunking to go round the bracket, or sit beyond the bracket leaving it more susceptible to knocks, etc....

UKGuy

Andy_L wrote: »

There's a load of dirt/grease on the bracket?

Like someone else has already posted is the electrician responsible for doing that and it wouldn't require an electrician to clean that off!

Richard_Cranium

sparkychris wrote: »

As an electrician, I can't see anything wrong with this. Certainly can't think of any regs that it may be breaking and would probably do the same if that's where the customer wanted their socket placed. The trunking is safely tucked away and if the bracket were to be removed the trunking could be easily replaced without disconnecting any cable...

Would you expect the trunking to go round the bracket, or sit beyond the bracket leaving it more susceptible to knocks, etc....

I cant either, routing the trunking around the bracket would look rough. So long as the insulation on the cabling is sound there would be no problem.

Hintza

Could go back to the old fashioned way and just have a trailing extension that someone was liable to trip over and pull the whole lot down.

To me all it is is an extension spur that has been neatly attached to the wall for safety and aesthetic reasons. As has been said easy to remove and or remove the pole.

steve-L

phill79 wrote: »

Hi
Just after some views from electricians as to what, if any, laws the image below has broken. The image shows a projection wall beam mount (a pole from the wall with a projector on it) and the electricians have come in afterwards and mounted that socket where it is along with the trunking going over the actual wall mount fixings (with the backs of the trunking cut out).
If anyone can let me know I would be most appreciative.
Thanks
Phill

I have no idea about non-domestic but that certainly isn't breaking any domestic building regs.

Had I done this at home I would have done a lot differently ...
I'd Start off with the quality of the welding on the beam.... looks like it was done by a blind man.



Then you don't mention if its on a RCD circuit or if its an extension spur .....

So at home I would have either bought a decent mounting beam or done the welding myself.

I'd have then earthed the beam internally and run the twin core cable (as the projector will probably be double isolated and have no earth) internally to a switched isolator on the wall.

In this case however you mounted the wall bracket and THEN called in electricians. Given the quality of the existing job you got the same from the electricians.

Hintza

Is this the same problem you wrote about on here in 2008?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1107865