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WEST KENT, EAST SUSSEX, WEST SUSSEX, SURREY
TUNBRIDGE WELLS, TONBRIDGE,
SEVENOAKS,
CROWBOROUGH
Treadwell Electrical
197a Upper Grosvenor Road
Tunbridge Wells
Kent TN1 2EG
Telephone 01892 544644
Mobile 07919 496997
Domestic and Commercial Electrical Contractor and Electrician for Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge, Crowborough, Sevenoaks, West Kent, East Sussex
HOUSE OF HORRORS 1
SOME OF THE POOR EXAMPLES OF DANGEROUS AND SUB STANDARD WIRING THAT WE HAVE FOUND RECENTLY
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Live cable end. Lid missing from junction.
Metal fitting not earthed. Fire rated ceiling with non fir rated lamp.
Increasable accessories .
Behind cooker
No protective conductors and old cable
Lead cable c1940s. This one sheath was live!! Only insulation was the paint.
Protective/earth conductor cut off.
Flex cable supplying shower unit. Has gone black with overheating.
There is enough material here to be used in text books for the next 10 years!!
- Cable supply 10 times too small.
- Socket next to shower. And if that is not bad enough it is metal!!!
-Exposed and unearthed light fitting
-No Bonding
-Light switch (not shown) also wrong.
1960’s two way switch.
Imperial size conductors. Old colours. Wood back box. No circuit protective conductors
Bathroom light.
Earth conductor cut off and jointed with masking tape and twisted wire
No main earth terminal.
All bonding and earth cables attached to redundant gas pipe
Economy 7 meter tails cut off.
Only small amount of insulation tape over bare copper ends.
Cable feeding lower floor lighting clipped over skirting board. Damaged and nearly cut through exposing live wire.
Unprotected cable damaged probably caused by Hoover
World record attempt to get 11 cables in one joint. Broken junction box and a good old bit of mower flex to power a floodlight
What else would you use the earth lig for? Other than to joint the neutral of course.
The next three pictures are all in the same loft space.
1: novel fire hood over a downlighter.
2. The neutral in junction cut too short so lets use the bare eart as rge switched line.
3. And very scary joint in mid air with bare live conductor connected to old rubber cable.
