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[Had8Lives]

Some joints I found in our kitchen. I thought the junction box buried in plaster was bad but then found some lovely 'twist it on and bury it in plaster under the wallpaper' ones. Luckily they had been disconnected years ago. There was tape round the twisted joints at least. Also one of the boxes had a nicely crafted laminate cover over the front Lol

 

[Andy78]

I got a call from a customer who was moving house. They wanted their 1950s range cooker disconnecting so they could take it with them. I asked them when they had the feed installed once I had picked my jaw back up. About a year ago apparently. Lets have a run down:

• Cable used was a 10mm 4 core SWA stripped down to the bedding. No cable supports used at any point. Cable enters the metal cooker switch with no grommet.
• Circuit taken from the incoming meter tails. No way of isolation apart from the DNO fuse, no overcurrent protection. Doesn't matter though as it went through a RCD so it must be safe. A spare way was available, as was an unused 6mm cooker circuit that was presently being used as a socket next to the cooker.
• All meter and fuse seals intact. This must have been dabbed in LIVE !!!
• No testing, certificate, or notification.

I was shown the guy's card left with the customer. Electrician with 25 years experience apparently. What an absolute joke.

 

[telectrix]

I got a call from a customer who was moving house. They wanted their 1950s range cooker disconnecting so they could take it with them. I asked them when they had the feed installed once I had picked my jaw back up. About a year ago apparently. Lets have a run down:

• Cable used was a 10mm 4 core SWA stripped down to the bedding. No cable supports used at any point. Cable enters the metal cooker switch with no grommet.
• Circuit taken from the incoming meter tails. No way of isolation apart from the DNO fuse, no overcurrent protection. Doesn't matter though as it went through a RCD so it must be safe. A spare way was available, as was an unused 6mm cooker circuit that was presently being used as a socket next to the cooker.
• No testing, certificate, or notification.

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I was shown the guy's card left with the customer. Electrician with 25 years experience apparently. What an absolute joke.

itworks, dunnit?

 

[The Ghost]

A few of my favourite things.......

 

[telectrix]

A few of my favourite things.......

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i told you "stopp pulling me up on my quick fixes"

 

[The Ghost]

Hehe

 

[The Ghost]

The socket straight on the wall jobby was throughout downstairs. Rising damp was really bad. The owners electric bill was £600 per quarter. He has no TV computer, Internet, Electric cooker just one or two lights on at night. After fixing all the probs in his house the bill went down by £480 per quarter and that was just part way through the quarter. I expect a lower bill for a full quarter. Needless to say the client is overjoyed as he had been paying these exorbitant bills for years. Massive leakage through out !

 

[The Ghost]

Oh and this 3 core socket circuit wiring, interesting!

 

[DPG]

Scary stuff Vortigern. Daz.

 

[The Ghost]

Ok last one just had to get it off my chest due to trauma at seeing and not even able to tell the customer how bad this is, just fixed and gave the bill. They will never ever know /sigh
P.S. rotate to left

 

[katysparks]

Just gonna leave this here..

 

[amlu]

not sure if thats a switch fuse or just a disconnector?

 

[tomspark93]

Quality shower install...

 

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[Andy78]

Oh dear. What did they use to knock the boxes out with too, dynamite ?

 

[amlu]

gosh that looks like recently done, have you meet the installer? or his horse parked outside?

 

[freddo]

Fairly recent work, that was provided with a certificate!
Cable joints under plaster, no grommets, poor earthing, exposed single insulation , incorrect use of joint box etc.

 

[tomspark93]

Sore this in a garage today, it made me laugh

 

[freddo]

I like that! Except the middle flex should be a bit shorter. Talking of garages, here's a supply to one.

 

[freddo]

Same place, Bedroom pendant was changed to 1 downlight(!) Part of the roof structure was in the way, but it wasn't a problem for our man!