i could spend days posting problems and pictures of electrical installations...unfortunatly i dont have the time...so i wont bore you with details.

i am busy with a COC in umhlanga...the owner was telling me about the house he purchased in JHB with a COC... it has cost him out his own pocket R25000.00 to date trying to get the house reasonable safe for him and his family.

He said he was rather taken back while watching me carry out the inspection report and couldnt believe there were so many problems with the 2 bedroom flat and how long it took me (2 and a half hours) to do the inspection report...at face value the flat looked fine...the faults included cabtyre run between plug sockets connected into the back of the socket...40 amp circuit breakers with 2.5 mm wire connected...no earth wires on the light switches which are metal with metal screws...down to earth readings on light circuits...big holes on the DB cover so you can put your hand into the DB...stove isolator combo plug socket not on earth leakage...just to mention a few.

an issue that i am finding a lot lately with plug sockets is bad contacts on the earth pin of the socket outlet...i have tried changing the plug top to see if my plug top was the problem but it seems not...i think what is happening is the plug top earth pin is not standard so if you use one with a bigger diameter pin it opens the socket...then when you fit one with a smaller diameter earth pin your earth continuity is at risk.