My friend has recently employed an electrician to do work for her. I am a little concerned about some of his work and his claims.
1) He was supposed to give her an extra aerial in the loft space but we cannot find it, after giving her the quote her said she needed a booster?, and he has taken the aerial from behind the living room tv under the floorboards and brought it up through the floorboards in her bedroom(she lives in a bungalow). He was told the tv would be on the wall and yet the lead is too short to reach the socket and he also said he would come back and lengthen the lead?
2) Most of her extra sockets have been placed immediately above the skirting boards(I thought they had to now be a certain height off the floor).
3) She purchased an outdoor socket from Aldi which contained an rcd plug. I believed that one end of the wire should be connected to the socket unit and the other connected to this plug. He fiited the socket outside, took the wire through the wall, up through the floorboards near the wall socket and attached an ordinary looking 3 pin plug to the end. When I saw this I asked my friend about the rcd and she said that he had told her it was contained within the plug?
I am very concerned about this individuals work and his claims. How can I be sure that all is right and proper, is there a list of accredited electricians where I can view his details. He has sent her a receipt for payment but it is not an itemised invoice of costs involved. My friend is in her seventies, doesn't want any trouble but I feel she has been taken for a ride by what I see as a cowboy tradesman. He certainly didn't like it when I questioned why he had put a security light on the front of the garage when she was having a light put outside her front door which would do the job and she had said she wanted the garden lit up. His response was "we alsways put them here". Altogether an obnoxious and arrogant individual. Any advise please? Thank you