**Show Us Your Installs!!!**

[Spudnik]

Right chaps,

Due to a few unavoidable issues, we have lost the original thread and pics etc.

Sorry about that!!!

So, if you want to re-upload your pics then great, if not, give us something new!


Cheers!!

 

[pennychew]

You’d be looking for a new job if I saw you running separate earth bonds for each cable. It’s a waste of materials and confusing.

All our panels with small SWA’s like that would have two banjo’s per gland and a single 16mm[SUP]2[/SUP] bond to the EMT. The banjo’s on the outside so there was brass to brass contact.

That looks like it will be much neater, can i ask what determines the size of the bond? you state 16mm2 but is that by calculation or just experience?

 

[Leesparkykent]

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[TJ Anderson]

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I like it. That's one way of keeping peoples hands of your drill bits lol

 

[TJ Anderson]

This is one of my more recent jobs. She could not stretch to a panel heater so I said I would loosen off the neutral so she could have a consumer unit / heater combo.

 

[telectrix]

This is one of my more recent jobs. She could not stretch to a panel heater so I said I would loosen off the neutral so she could have a consumer unit / heater combo.

OBVIOUSLY, THAT COULD NEVER HAPPEN IN A STEEL CU, COULD IT? :ack2:

 

[Essex_]

Not directly an install but made me laugh when I saw this in a mess room.

 

[telectrix]

Not directly an install but made me laugh when I saw this in a mess room.

that's the combustible CU problem solved. fit a tap above the CU with a temperature controlled valve. soon as the temperature reaches 85 deg. C, tap turns on, extinguishes fire. nationwide that'll be 5000 firefighters made redundant, or demoted to getting ----- cats out of trees.

 

[D00DY_T00DY]

Hello...........................

Is it me you're looking for? ...

 

[Knobhead]

That looks like it will be much neater, can i ask what determines the size of the bond? you state 16mm2 but is that by calculation or just experience?

At one time M&Q specified 7/064 /16mm[SUP]2[/SUP] as minimum and I’ve always stuck with that. Our stores would usually have a couple of 100m of it and I’d rather have my fingernails pulled out than try to get them to order anything different. Looks a bit silly when you have a 1.5 2c SWA with a 16mm run to it, but it’s what they wanted

 

[R G]

Not directly an install but made me laugh when I saw this in a mess room.

One way of preventing burnt toast .....

 

[Silly Sausage]

Not directly an install but made me laugh when I saw this in a mess room.

That's got to be a set up!
Is that a bottle of bleach and plastics cups to drink it out of?

 

[Essex_]

I swear it was not a set up. If I am being honest the toaster was not plugged in but the H&S poster behind was simple classic.

 

[Dan]

I'm just bumping some of the older threads in the general electrical forum that had a lot of replies. They might not be current topics, if they're not, just ignore them and they'll soon drop off the list. If you DO wish to add a reply and get the conversation going again, feel free to do so. Your input might help somebody else in the future.

 

[shanky887614]

nothing special just a bit of trunking (only supportis hangers off ceiling)

it drops down into a 90, then a t with a drop going down as well

 

[Leesparkykent]

Old industrial building we done, converted in to a house/wedding venue. Walls are 4ft thick.

 

[stevethesparks]

Panel board that I have almost finished

One of 28 DB' s

One of the 6 fire panels finished

One massive warehouse

Was this in Rugeley by any chance?

 

[Simonslimline]

A recent consumer unit.

 

[HandySparks]

Very tidy. First class job.

Some minor points (I'd be failing if I didn't think of something):
Lump of crud sitting on top of main switch.
Slight tilt on breakers, particularly towards the RH end.
No space for additional circuits.

 

[Simonslimline]

Very tidy. First class job.

Some minor points (I'd be failing if I didn't think of something):
Lump of crud sitting on top of main switch.
Slight tilt on breakers, particularly towards the RH end.
No space for additional circuits.

Yep well spotted, i assure you it's not there now lol.

I just get given the materials to do the job. I hate MK boards personally.

 

[Richo77]

Tidy job. Hate it when the MCBs are slightly twisted from heaving up on the bus bar.

 

[Leesparkykent]

Yep well spotted, i assure you it's not there now lol.

I just get given the materials to do the job. I hate MK boards personally.

No matter how hard you try you can't help the tilt with the mcb's on these boards when getting a good purchase on the busbar.....the boards are a pile of turd IMHO. Pukka job though, nice and neat with no exposed conductors.

 

[Aindowsimon]

It being an mk consumer is the only thing I can pick up on that photo , very wel done mate

 

[GMES]

Cracking job Simon.

 

[jase]

Boiler install I've just done. One boiler for HW one for CH.

 

[Richard Burns]

Looking good, (except for the stat cabling), what is the back box to the left?
A neat installation.

 

[jase]

back box to the left is for a Rako lightswitch, this is in the garage of a large house

 

[tomspark93]

Consumer unit upgrade I did sub contracting recently. Materials were provided. Took me an hour to straighten my back out after that one. The cupboard was an awkward squeeze to say the least with gas pipes in the way as well.

 

[Leesparkykent]

Consumer unit upgrade I did sub contracting recently. Materials were provided. Took me an hour to straighten my back out after that one. The cupboard was an awkward squeeze to say the least with gas pipes in the way as well.
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Looks spot on mate.

 

[Barry White]

A recent consumer unit.


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Excelent job looks really neat and tidy the worst cables are the factory fitted ones! a work of art seems a shame to put the cover on.

 

[Lagentium]

It's the dis board changes that I struggle with most to get neat, the cables are never always long enough! Some properly neat work on here lads, it nice to see people taking pride in their work!