New EICR - "No earth bond to some socket boxes: C2"?

There used to be a moonlighting DNO electrician that I knew personally who did work cash in hand at weekends to finance his wife’s lifestyle, I used to sit and have lunch with him in the back of his DNO truck whilst on sites where he was jointing cables in the days when the DNO guys had trucks that were proper sheds on wheels with a workshop inside them and a big gas burner that could be used to boil a kettle. Nice chap, but he had one very bad habit in that he used to cut the circuit protective conductors off on lighting circuits, because he didn’t consider that they served any particular purpose.


It’s amazing how entrenched some people can be and still insist on maintaining electrical installation practice that other people accepted was no longer the way to do it thirty years earlier.


When replacing old fuse boards with consumer units I have spent many a happy hour trying to expose enough of the lighting circuit CPCs he cut off to get a connector onto them to extend them to where they are supposed to go to.


Personally when installing sockets and the like I fit an earth fly lead to the box box and usually do it when replacing a fitting if one has not been installed. How many times have you seen live electrical fittings hanging on the conductors connected to them because the fixing screws have been removed to allow a wallpaper or tiling to be tucked behind them leaving the back box unearthed?


 Andy B.

There used to be a moonlighting DNO electrician that I knew personally who did work cash in hand at weekends to finance his wife’s lifestyle, I used to sit and have lunch with him in the back of his DNO truck whilst on sites where he was jointing cables in the days when the DNO guys had trucks that were proper sheds on wheels with a workshop inside them and a big gas burner that could be used to boil a kettle. Nice chap, but he had one very bad habit in that he used to cut the circuit protective conductors off on lighting circuits, because he didn’t consider that they served any particular purpose.


It’s amazing how entrenched some people can be and still insist on maintaining electrical installation practice that other people accepted was no longer the way to do it thirty years earlier.


When replacing old fuse boards with consumer units I have spent many a happy hour trying to expose enough of the lighting circuit CPCs he cut off to get a connector onto them to extend them to where they are supposed to go to.


Personally when installing sockets and the like I fit an earth fly lead to the box box and usually do it when replacing a fitting if one has not been installed. How many times have you seen live electrical fittings hanging on the conductors connected to them because the fixing screws have been removed to allow a wallpaper or tiling to be tucked behind them leaving the back box unearthed?


 Andy B.