Electrician fined for EICR.

I think, with due respect to ALL… that if any of us went back, to inspect some works' completed, over the years'… we'd all find a fault, or two, SOMEWHERE! 

I have always been careful… wired 100's of houses' 40 plus years' industrial works, TP&N etc… Can't imagine how many CCU's, (TP&N included), that I've installed, (up to when this scheme started - none since), plus too many intake rooms' too. Nah, I ain't bragging… just an outline of what, (and… most of you have done too so, I'm NOTHING special… #in fact, I'm a bit of a bore#), we do.

I don't think I've ever worried about what I've installed BUT… I would take a guess that, somewhere down the road, I've made a boo-boo?

regards… 

P.S; I'd just like to add… I had a client, who used someone / non sparky, to do some works, that were POOR so he called me back, only a few years' ago… I couldn't get into the cupboard, beneath the stairs… the left hand side door wouldn't open, properly. I was reaching in to see what was stopping it opening. Once opened my eye's nearly popped OUT! The idiot had removed the cover on the Henly block! I doubt whether it would have killed me, (I've had shocks from TP&N boards, before BUT…), I'd take a stronger stance, against the ‘DIY’ers' than most sparks BUT, saying this… I have seen some dreadful ‘sparking’ along the way, too!

I removed a 30am 3036 fuse, from a commercial fuse-board…  suddenly, later, I got an almighty ShOcK! The GPO man had put it back into the CCU! I did have a word, or two, to say to him!! If you take a fuse out… don't leave it behind! DO NOT say, to me, “Test dead To Stay Alive” as I'd already done this… I just didn't reckon on a moron putting it BACK!

OK, last one!! I changed my neighbours PIR, for his alarm system, above his porch. I switched off the correct MCB, went off and bought a new PIR. Got back up and BANG! This nearly threw me off of the top of the porch, where I was standing and who would be to blame… ME! He'd switched it back on, because the alarm system was making an “annoying beep!!” 

So, the moral of my dopey stories? NEVER take for granted that what you've turned OFF, may remain OFF, always DOUBLE check!!! I think this will help someone out, in years' to come!! I do hope so!!

I think, with due respect to ALL… that if any of us went back, to inspect some works' completed, over the years'… we'd all find a fault, or two, SOMEWHERE! 

I have always been careful… wired 100's of houses' 40 plus years' industrial works, TP&N etc… Can't imagine how many CCU's, (TP&N included), that I've installed, (up to when this scheme started - none since), plus too many intake rooms' too. Nah, I ain't bragging… just an outline of what, (and… most of you have done too so, I'm NOTHING special… #in fact, I'm a bit of a bore#), we do.

I don't think I've ever worried about what I've installed BUT… I would take a guess that, somewhere down the road, I've made a boo-boo?

regards… 

P.S; I'd just like to add… I had a client, who used someone / non sparky, to do some works, that were POOR so he called me back, only a few years' ago… I couldn't get into the cupboard, beneath the stairs… the left hand side door wouldn't open, properly. I was reaching in to see what was stopping it opening. Once opened my eye's nearly popped OUT! The idiot had removed the cover on the Henly block! I doubt whether it would have killed me, (I've had shocks from TP&N boards, before BUT…), I'd take a stronger stance, against the ‘DIY’ers' than most sparks BUT, saying this… I have seen some dreadful ‘sparking’ along the way, too!

I removed a 30am 3036 fuse, from a commercial fuse-board…  suddenly, later, I got an almighty ShOcK! The GPO man had put it back into the CCU! I did have a word, or two, to say to him!! If you take a fuse out… don't leave it behind! DO NOT say, to me, “Test dead To Stay Alive” as I'd already done this… I just didn't reckon on a moron putting it BACK!

OK, last one!! I changed my neighbours PIR, for his alarm system, above his porch. I switched off the correct MCB, went off and bought a new PIR. Got back up and BANG! This nearly threw me off of the top of the porch, where I was standing and who would be to blame… ME! He'd switched it back on, because the alarm system was making an “annoying beep!!” 

So, the moral of my dopey stories? NEVER take for granted that what you've turned OFF, may remain OFF, always DOUBLE check!!! I think this will help someone out, in years' to come!! I do hope so!!