Electrical Rough In

Yesterday the electricians roughed in their circuits, and I am very disappointed to say the least.

The work is very unprofessional, not done to standard and shortcuts are taken wherever possible. They have also installed a second sub board (Switchboard) in our hallway. As I mentioned in the blogs introduction post, I am an electrician myself, but decided to not wire the house myself as I was working FIFO at the time we signed the contracts. The work is the worst I would have ever seen.

An extra we added was a three phase cable to be run from house MSB to a future shed location 55 meters away, which involves running the cable through the house, and then a 30m trench. The cable was ran through the house ceiling yesterday but then CUT to be joined onto the remaining when trench is dug. Very bad practice as joins in electrical cable will eventually be a weak spot.

They have also ran a peak/off peak hot water feed, where the hot water will be Gas boosted (so not required) and a feed to the cooktop which will also be gas and not required.

Cable has also not been secured in the ceiling adequately.

Below is the email I sent to SS this afternoon :

"Firstly we are extremely happy with the quality of other works at site and they all seem to be a A+ standard. Unfortunately the electrical work yesterday does have some issues.

A sub board looks like it will be installed in the hallway. This was not shown on the electrical plans and we require all circuits to be terminated at the MSB at rear of WIR as shown on electrical plans. We do not want ANY joins in the cables to accommodate this.

The 16mm future shed mains has been run through the roof to outside of  building and then cut. I don't feel happy about this and expected a cable run from end to end without any joins.

Unfortunately the electrical rough in looks to also not meet standards, and could be easily damaged when accessing the roof space at a later stage or even during plaster fixing.

We plan on living in this house for many years and need to make sure we get the services we pay for. I hope you understand this.

Thanks again for all your help in the past;  hopefully these issues can be rectified asap."

 

Have not received a response as yet. Somehow I think this situation is going to slow things for a while.