OT Builders

Rather, the householder's responsibility to pay a spark to re-route
cables as necessary. Let's face it, all the installation installer
wants, and is paid, to do is turn up and fill the walls.
He was caught on the hop with this one, but imo, it's not his fault -
the walls should have been clear of cables and if not, they should have
been protected.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

As someone who isn't a spark, how the hell am I supposed to know any of
this if the 'professional' I employ to do the job doesn't tell me?

And even if we were all electrical experts who knew we had to check
every wire in the walls for safety before having insulation fitted, it
would still be the insulation installers duty to check those precautions
had been done before commencing work.

--
Veggie Dave
http://www.iq18films.co.uk

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim
that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine

 

It's your property, it's up to you to know. To a certain extent the
insulation intaller can be reasonably expected to spot a fairly obvious
problem and draw your attention to it, but it's not his job to fix it.

That's yours.

Apart from that, no installation installer has x-ray vision and if he
damaged a cable that's invisible it's in no way his fault.

It's your house, your responsibility. Suck it up and get it fixed.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

If there's something that needs to be checked for safety reasons then I
expect to be told by the 'expert' that I need to do it before they start
to work.

It's absolutely normal practise in my work. In fact, I can't think of a
situation where it wouldn't be.

--
Veggie Dave
http://www.iq18films.co.uk

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim
that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine

 

What was the item being fed by the cable, out of interest? Was it
internal?

Cable in a cavity is utterly bad practice, although not illegal or
against regs, and the insulation installer had no reason to suspect one
to be there from what I read.

And where do you hire the x-ray specs you use in your line of work, for
I'm sure the insulation installer would like a set. I would too, come to
that.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

I suggest you actually read what I wrote. If you can find a single
comment about having x-ray specs I'll suck a pig's cock in Trafalgar
Square.

--
Veggie Dave
http://www.iq18films.co.uk

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim
that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine

 

Porch lights.

So perhaps the installation installer may have paused for thought and
bothered to think about how you feed power to the porch.

Reg? Hmm house is 40 years old so I suspect that any rules were
different then.

Someone mentioned the wall filler reacting to the cable. Well then the
professional insulator chappie would therefore not fill the wall. But he
did, so obviously he doesn't think it's an issue (or he wants to burn
down my house).

 

That's some promise for a vegetarian too.

 

1. If it is, in fact, expanded polystyrene beads.

2. If he even knows about the problem - surprising how many don't.

3. If he even gives a shit.

4. If he knew about the cable.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

You drew the parallel.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

****'s sake, leave it. Think of the pig.

 

1 & 2 , who knows, because I don't.

3 I bet he didn't.

4 it seems he didn't.

I was idly wondering why they don't have some gauge that only allows the
drill to go as far as a standard brick width, at which point they'd stop
and have a look before further drilling.