so carrying on from the EICR that i'm doing today this is the obviously the consumer
unit that we're looking at that i'm working on so i have already been doing some work on it
um but this is generally the condition that i found in so a couple of things to look at
is straight away we can see the 25 mil tails it's a metal consumer unit and they come through
on individual holes which is that's no good because that can cause cause an issue with the
magnetic effect between the conductors again the 16 mil main earth comes through a separate hole
and it should really come in together with the tails so they're unsupported so that's
something that's that's going to be picked up let's look at the condition of everything else
we've got the grey here this is an armored cable so this grey cable has been used as the as the
um the CPC or the neutral again it shouldn't really be done like this it should be the
other way around so the black should really be used for the CPC because the black is the old
neutral color and so as a general rule we always use the grey as the neutral again
there's no sleeving on it this is a one and a half mil cable that feeds the outside shed
i haven't looked at anything else yet that i it looks like it is an armored cable if you can't see
you can't see behind there but it's obviously not glanded correctly there's no
brass gland on there so the outer braiding isn't isn't connected
you can't necessarily check you can't necessarily see it but let's just
so let's check the torque settings for how sort of tight the connectors are now i have been
messing around with the the ring circuit so i won't do this one
that's half turn i don't check that one yet
half a turn
so again half a turn or so on though so actually not too bad they should be around the 2.4
newton meter setting again we've got the main earth and the bonding conductors
um but in general it's not necessarily as bad as what some boards that we see but it's not it's not
perfect again there's there's an open grommet there and again if we look on the top boards
the IP rating here isn't maintained neither so um so that's something that we
would prob um perhaps have to put some silicon around there i don't like doing it but for the IP
rating there's not really much other things that we can do so yeah anything else that you can find
um again something i'm going to look into we've got the cooker so we've got the shower circuit and
the cooker circuit they're both wired up in six mil and they're both protected by 40 amp breaker
which certainly for the cooker it probably doesn't need to be 40 amps
but it might be a concern for the shower that it's a 40 amp
um because it is only a six mil cable so that's something that we'll have to
investigate in a second when we when we do the shower and again if you look at the board
this is the this is the front of the board so it's a lovely it's a nice um Crabtree board
again there's no stickers the the the labels on here are limited they don't
give you an awful lot of information they have got the pack here
so it's got the RCD sticker etc but there's other things that need to be on there
so for example non-standard colors so you've got the so you've got the sort of you've got
the brown and the blue and the red and the black so that also needs to be looked at another thing
is i haven't i haven't done the lot it checks the lighting circuits yet but apparently the lighting
circuits don't have a CPC so again that would have to be another sticker we'd have to put on
just to show what circuits haven't got the CPC on but apart from that anything else you can find
hopefully that should all be okay