Electrical engineer inspection

Chandler85

I don't know where in the regs, but I believe the need to bond to the incoming gas and water is not always required any more.

For example, a new gas or water main is plastic to the house from the street, so they finally updated the regs to mean you don't need to bond to it, you know being as though plastic doesn't actually conduct electricity.  Which makes sense, obviously internal copper pipework etc is different, but modern boilers are meant to earth themselves and all copper attached to them, which would include the gas feed, that was according to a gas safe engineer when I asked about the bonding maybe 2 years ago.

Again older wiring, feeds from the road, boilers and consumer units all change these things.

FataVerde

Noneforit999 said:

Nothing there looks too much of an issue other than perhaps the cooker cable needing replacing which might mean cutting holes in walls etc to get a new one in, not a huge issue if the consumer unit is close to the kitchen.

Personally the number and location of the sockets would be a non issue for me unless you needed more anyway.

Realistically in terms of need, I would say the bonding needs to be sorted, the cooker cable needs replacing and the boiler circuit needs fixing whatever the issue is. Get him to disconnect the unknown circuit too and if you notice something not working later on, there is your answer. 

If money is no object, get it all done including a moving the sockets and replacing the CU but in a world where people have budgets, I would stick to the critical stuff and see if you can tackle the less important stuff later on.

Thanks! Really useful. The consumer unit is very far from the kitchen. It's a first floor flat and the unit is down on the ground floor by the entrance.

FataVerde

Slithery said:

So only 3 C1's which will cost the vendor around £50 to fix then.

Get them to do this and there's nothing to worry about, it's just standard property maintenance from there on in.

That's not the costing I received, esp not for rewiring with the kitchen far from consumer unit, and the replacement of the fuse box is in the hundreds anyway.

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FataVerde said:

Slithery said:

So only 3 C1's which will cost the vendor around £50 to fix then.

Get them to do this and there's nothing to worry about, it's just standard property maintenance from there on in.

That's not the costing I received, esp not for rewiring with the kitchen far from consumer unit, and the replacement of the fuse box is in the hundreds anyway.

You need to start reading and taking advice.

Deal with the C1s.