Buckingham Palace Rewire

[KEV 1 N]

Came across this video....bet they found some interesting things under the floorboards!

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

Saw on news they found old newspaper and cigarette packaging from queen victorias reign. apparently some of the cabling is still in use from back then! no wonder they are replacing it.
I hope Her Majesty has checked the electricians are part p approved mind and she gets her certificate at the end of it, don't want to come on forum next month to find Elizabeth from Windsor asking about getting no certificate for the works on her home in London!

 

[Rpa07]

They can’t really complain - it’s got conduit for all the runs, Still, I get that it does get classed as a ‘live in’ - let the banter begin!

 

[Spoon]

I wonder how many ---- mags they will find?

 

[telectrix]

probably find a what the butler saw machine, under the stairs.

 

[KEV 1 N]

Saw on news they found old newspaper and cigarette packaging from queen victorias reign. apparently some of the cabling is still in use from back then! no wonder they are replacing it.
I hope Her Majesty has checked the electricians are part p approved mind and she gets her certificate at the end of it, don't want to come on forum next month to find Elizabeth from Windsor asking about getting no certificate for the works on her home in London!

The contractors are by Royal Appointment and they have a specialist firm in for the chandeliers....

 

[Pete999]

About 2 days all in, no making good,cash on completion please Your Maj

 

[Rpa07]

The contractors are by Royal Appointment and they have a specialist firm in for the chandeliers....

Never gets old, that one.

 

[RWJ]

Well I'm truly surprised Phil didn't come one here looking for advice to do it himself. Maybe he's holding out for when Liz wants Nest / Hive / Honeywells effort.

 

[telectrix]

good job they didn't employ Carillion then.

 

[buzzlightyear]

I bet the sparks rewiring that place want be dancing around with the furnisher and moving carpets or moving granny Clampet from room to room.

 

[telectrix]

how dare you refer to our queen as granny Clampet? granny Clampet was much prettier.

 

[KEV 1 N]

Well I'm truly surprised Phil didn't come one here looking for advice to do it himself. Maybe he's holding out for when Liz wants Nest / Hive / Honeywells effort.

No....they’ll instruct the butler to go and turn the heating off or on!

 

[telectrix]

is the butler's name "hive"?

 

[Bobster]

Those are some very well dressed electricians pulling those wires in.

 

[buzzlightyear]

Those are some very well dressed electricians pulling those wires in.

can not see any builder a** hang out can you .

 

[telectrix]

Those are some very well dressed electricians pulling those wires in.

well they will be. probably southerners on £80/hour. queenie can afford such extravagance.

 

[Pete999]

well they will be. probably southerners on £80/hour. queenie can afford such extravagance.

Like She will be paying for it??????

 

[static zap]

Did she get her letter bestowing the virtues of a "smart meter" , and they saw the state of the wiring !

 

[telectrix]

nowt wrong with the wiring till BG "engineer" plugged in his socket & see.

 

[Toneyz]

Phil from London will be on here asking how to put up light fitting now he's taken down the old one.

 

[telectrix]

he can always get Delboy and Rodney to fit it.

 

[PEG]

I strongly suspect stooges and stages,for the vid...

I also suspect either full access to floors/areas,or,if single rooms,then a giant basket of Wagos...

Either way,i refer back to something i was told as a kid...Believe nothing you hear - and only half of what you see

 

[Spoon]

Either way,i refer back to something i was told as a kid...Believe nothing you hear - and only half of what you see

If you only believe half of what you see I will be slim again....

 

[Pete E]

I used to have dealings with the Telecoms maintenance side of things for the Palace of Westminster and would visit 3 or 4 times a year to liaise with their people.

Got to given a couple of "behind the scenes" guided tours and it was fascinating to see all the hidden passageways, staircases and such like, plus hear some of the insider gossip about the some the more famous MP's etc...

 

[PEG]

...I went on a school nature trip,and got to ask David Bellamy a question...

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

...I went on a school nature trip,and got to ask David Bellamy a question...

Can better that. In Bristol a few years ago in a cafe on Whiteladies Road just along from the BBC. I was in a cafe getting lunch and got chatting to Sir David Attenborough. He was in Bristol as the natural history stuff was or may still be based there.
Found him to be one of the most approachable, humble sincere people I ever met. He is one of those people you could spend a lifetime talking too as he has seen so much. I had recently come back from holiday in South Africa and talked about the evil people doing caged hunting of the big 5 and poaching.
I had to leave the cafe as I had to get to back to work but it was one of the best lunch breaks I have had.

 

[The Ghost]

Where's the PPE? Ye gods, they would all be off site on my watch.

 

[Midwest]

Those are some very well dressed electricians pulling those wires in.

And some very highly qualified engineers (it appears), getting their hands dirty, pulling cables.

Typical bosses, mention cameras and they all want to help out.

 

[Midwest]

Where's the PPE? Ye gods, they would all be off site on my watch.

That's probably 'becaws' Lizzy has told em to take down the dirty great big site information board at the gates. Bloody plebs.

 

[Midwest]

Me old man house had the vulcanised singles in slip conduit, before he had it rewired in the 1960's. The cable was in good nick, just poor at the terminations, where somebody had been messing with it

 

[Bobster]

And some very highly qualified engineers (it appears), getting their hands dirty, pulling cables.

Typical bosses, mention cameras and they all want to help out.

I muck in with the best of them still, although you wont find me in a shirt an pants if I know i'm going to be doing hands on work.

In fact the only real time I'll dress up like that is for sales meetings an I'm being forced.

 

[Midwest]

I muck in with the best of them still, although you wont find me in a shirt an pants if I know i'm going to be doing hands on work.

In fact the only real time I'll dress up like that is for sales meetings an I'm being forced.

You bosses are all the same. Thinking about, me being the boss of my company, I muck in all the time

 

[elsparko]

i seen a female electrician in the wholesaler today, obviously a glorified one as not a spec of dust on the trews or the shirt!

 

[elsparko]

every guy i know who has worked his way into the office regrets it, no longer on the tools with the boys!!!!

 

[Pete999]

every guy i know who has worked his way into the office regrets it, no longer on the tools with the boys!!!!

I was that Guy!!!!!

 

[elsparko]

I was that Guy!!!!!

im slowly becoming that guy , apparently once my ticket is through ill be an office jockey 3 days a week!

 

[KEV 1 N]

im slowly becoming that guy , apparently once my ticket is through ill be an office jockey 3 days a week!

every guy i know who has worked his way into the office regrets it, no longer on the tools with the boys!!!!

It’s called going over to the dark side!

 

[Johnny Boy]

...and today one shall have the audience room rewired. “Yes Liz darling I’ll need a 3rd upfront, a 3rd halfway and a 3rd on completion. Cash in hand and no certs or receipts”

 

[Toneyz]

I bet they are getting out of Part P as it's a firm.

 

[GeorgeCooke]

I hope Her Majesty has checked the electricians are part p approved !

She can't. There is no such thing as a part P approved electrician.

 

[Pete999]

She can't. There is no such thing as a part P approved electrician.

Just goes to show how much Part P is misunderstood George, don't you agree? I'm a Part Time Approved Electrician does that count?

 

[CACJL]

Came across this video....bet they found some interesting things under the floorboards!

I wonder how many 15 amp two pin sockets they will have to replace, some in the bathrooms.

 

[KEV 1 N]

I wonder how many 15 amp two pin sockets they will have to replace, some in the bathrooms.

I wonder if any of the old accessories theve stripped out will end up on eBay?