This Electrician Trained in Six Weeks

TRAINED TO BE AN ELECTRICIAN IN 6 WEEKS
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CASE STUDY 1 - TRAIN TO BE AN ELECTRICIAN IN 6 WEEKS AND EARN £70K / YEAR
Location:	A development property, two flats, one upstairs, one downstairs near Southampton University.
Job Description:	Electrical first and second fix done by an electrician that trained in six weeks. The developer supplied the materials and the electrician provided the labour (his skill). Two months into the second fix (yes two months on a job that should take two weeks maximum), we got a call from the developer to have a look at what the electrician had done as he had walked off the job and there were some problems with the lights.

the electrician kept fitting more and more cable

This is the front door to the upstairs flat, standing on the stairs looking out
According to the developer, the electrician kept getting more and more cable and when challenged
said "it's ok mate, I'm the electrician, I know what I'm doing".
There does seem to be a lot of cable there for a light and a 2 way switch.

How many cables can you clip with a clip designed for one cable

Taking the ceiling down was the only way to sort out all those extra cables - only to find:
Cables clipped on their side (bad practise), when they were clipped at all and tape everywhere
and miles of extra cables.

You can't go wrong with one way switching, it's either "off" or it's "on",
but why has the earth wire got a handbag?

even when there's enough wires for all the terminals, have some spare cable too

Two way switching, but there seems to be a few too many cables.
It almost works, but some lights don't come on at all, some stay on all the time
and some go off, when you turn others on.
Maybe he had a hangover they day they covered two way switching.

If L1 IN has 2 wires and L2 IN has no wires, what colour is Tuesday?

The bathroom fan was a challenge for him too. Maybe it's in the fan switch -
L1 has 2 innies and one outie, but L2 has no innies and one outie.
Is that why it doesn't work, or is it something to do with 2 cables to the fan,
giving you 2 brown wires and 2 blue wires and only 3 connections to the fan?

Maybe not, but everything is possible with a junction box - isn't it?
But it still doesn't work!

a bathroom light - how difficult can it be ?

Something simple then, like the bathroom light.
Perhaps not.

Maybe he's got an aptitude for fitting solar panels.

It took 4 weeks to put it right. Twice as long as it would have taken to do the job
properly in the first place. And ignoring the cost of the extra wasted materials.

TRAINED TO BE AN ELECTRICIAN IN 6 WEEKS DO NOT COPY ANYTHING SHOWN IN THIS GALLERY

TRAINED TO BE AN ELECTRICIAN IN 6 WEEKS
DO NOT COPY ANYTHING SHOWN IN THIS GALLERY