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Certainly wasn't installed by someone who takes pride in their work that's for sure.
Property Purchase - New Mains cable - looks messy
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Inside that "hoover pipe" will be a fully armoured mains supply cable that its self is fully weather proof. The fact it has additional sleeving is a step up from just having the cable run up the wall in clips, as this extra sleeving will proect the main cables outer coating from abrasion / UV. This is perfectly ok and you dont need to do anything to it, other then personal preference aesthetic work if you so desire.
I doubt it lol.
So much miss information in here.
It's likely when the EICR was done they noticed either an issue with the tails or they were undersized and were asked to replace as part of that so it didn't fail the inspection.
The originals may of been ran in the cavity or just not protected and the electrician decided that was a C2 so informed the owner.
This will of been the quickest and cheapest route. Running them inside the property will of required either a boxing that's deeper than 50mm or a chase and metal capping etc so doubtful the owner would have wanted it.
They could have ran armoured like Syla says but would need to glad it in at the meter and I'm going to assume plastic consumer unit, well that's the a !@#£ ache (it's how I would have done it)
Instead they have decided to use some copex and run the tails inside that, is it allowed? Yep.. does it look at mess yep.. is it anything to really worry about beyond looks? Nah not really, apart from the same electrician likely did that EICR you are looking at.
Ok so i should really expand on my situation then so as to clear any concern of miss information.
Mine was a replacement mains supply as the old main failed at a joint under a 4 decades old extension. The easiest solution and only viable external solution was for them to reroute the external mains supply around the extension and in to a new external meter. From the new external meter they ran the mains supply cable up the wall, in to the loft space of the single story extension, down a cavity wall and in to a junction box next to my CU, and its from here they run the tails from to the CU.
If this isnt the case for the OP and its just tails running from the meter to the CU, in a fully enclosed copex it, as you confirm, is still absolutely fine. The tails cables themselves are weatherproof, the copex is weatherproof. While the brick has blown out (most likely due to drilling the hole from inside to out) that makes it look a little less tidy and there hasn't been care for it to be perfectly straight with with the clips, what the OP posted up is far from a disaster, and is definitely not a complaint's issue.
You response @ZG002 was pretty level, but some of the others in this post made it sound like the OP had a real issue to have to deal with and that its the end of the world, it really isnt, and doesnt need hundreds of £££ spending to put anything right.
End of the day it looks like a complete bodge. Also they cant even manage to drill a brick without popping half of it off. I wouldn't be accepting it myself.
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The flexible pipe is pond pump pipe. It's the only stuff that comes in lengths like that. It would be waterproof and largely weather proof also. Looks ugly as sin tho'.
IME that is just a lazy/shoddy tradesperson minimising the time on job..
We don't know if the owner was consulted, but if they had said keep it external you still could have made that look 10 times neater, although I also know some people are pathologically scared of doing any interior decorating to make these jobs invisible..
I've had this happen countless times with trades over the last 10 years, you have to keep an eye on them and make sure they understand exactly how I want it.. I always do this when they quote, I don't mind paying extra for a neat job and hate external or cables on show, so when I get that requested when quoted and find when on site they then want to/start doing the quickest/easiest bodge job problems arise.. Builders, Plumbers, Sparkies..
Saying that, the last sparky I had when doing a double extension was great.. proper professional, asked about everything when quoting, turned up with two assistants and laser measured everything and accommodated all the instructions about hiding everything.. Thats the only trades person I've had in 10 years that actually did what was asked and understood the brief.
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highy doubt it will be armoured be tails if armoured it would be clipped direct to the wall surely
I'm a electrician by trade, manage a team of 13 electricians now and I fully understand your point of view.
I've seen it all lol.
If I can DIY it at home I still do even though I can get mates rates etc as I'm super picky and always pick faults in the work done.
I'd rather do it myself, learn a new skill and if it isn't 100% perfect at least I haven't paid someone £200 a day to disappoint me.
Will just be double insulated tails, I think Syla got mixed up with the main incoming cable from the DNO, but that is going into the bottom of the meter cabinet.
This is the same as me. Where I live pickings of good tradespeople are slim to say the least. The last job I paid for (guttering & soffits replacement) just reinforced that opinion.
Can't help thinking that all trades are **** and out to screw you.
