Chris Cooke Electrical

This chandelier we fitted yesterday in a customers newly decorated landing really did look the part. It was a bit awkward to get to due to the two sets of stairs, but luckily we didn't have a Del Boy & Rodney moment. 😆

Some lovely finds today,
- volcanised Indian rubber cable from the 1950s still in use. It turns brittle and literally falls apart by any movement.
- Some lovely DIY bodges
- Metal light fittings with no earth..
- TT earthing system (where the earth to the property should be provided by the customer and not by the electricity board) with no earth stake, and no RCD's on old rewireable fuses.. 😬

Basically this property is in dire need of a rewire and bringing up to a safe standard.

The new offices I have been working on at Alco Engineering are now completed, and today we moved the servers, network and phones over all ready for Monday. All looking very smart.

Nice little job today. A lovely Georgian house where the kitchen lighting was a bit lacking. We carefully worked out the location of the timbers and wired and installed 9 LED downlights from the floor void within the bathroom above. Luckily we could fish all cables from this one point as other floors in the next room were tiled. This meant for a very clean and tidy install, with only the small holes where the old lights were fitted, to be filled and painted.

We also changed the old fluorescent tube undercabinet lighting to LED strips to give a clean bright light.

That moment when you drill out the downlights and all the cables which you installed 12months ago are exactly where they should be, and you didn't loose the map to their location! 😂😁

Back at the sawmill to finish off the lighting and heating controls.

It's been a busy week, with 2 5am breakdowns to attend, carrying on with new lighting in a new bulk bag store for one of our big customers, and getting a new dust extraction wired and new mains position installed for a saw mill. Still a lot to do, but the main temporary supplies are now back on. 😁👍