Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

[nicebutdim]

There was one in my parents house, surface mounted and tight to the carpet.

 

[Dustydazzler]

I have seen lots of sockets mounted upside down so the plugtop flex isn't squashed

 

[littlespark]

That looks like the socket was there first and they've introduced "period" style skirting boards and never thought of the heights.

 

[Dustydazzler]

That looks like the socket was there first and they've introduced "period" style skirting boards and never thought of the heights.

it would have taken a sparks 45mins to move that socket up 3 inches , but no the builder butchers the skirting board instead ?

 

[James]

it would have taken a sparks 45mins to move that socket up 3 inches , but no the builder butchers the skirting board instead ?

Can just hear the customer wailing “HOW MUCH” but you have only used £2 worth of cable.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Can just hear the customer wailing “HOW MUCH” but you have only used £2 worth of cable.

Yet they would have had no complaints paying a grand to move 2 inches of gas pipe

 

[nicebutdim]

Gas and water seem to frighten people more than electricity.

 

[Doomed]

Yes that is either 1mm or 1.5mm in the socket, no we won't put in a spur for a 2KW water heater

 

[Dustydazzler]

That is a typical pub / take away install if I ever saw one

 

[pc1966]

I have seen lots of sockets mounted upside down so the plugtop flex isn't squashed

With double sockets you can't really win as some wall-wart power units go up the way to avoid the too-low traditional mounting arrangements.

Singles you can do sideways to work, but really its a nasty legacy of (I presume) avoiding putting sockets in lath and plaster walls and using the board as at least a stable mounting base.

 

[pc1966]

That looks like the socket was there first and they've introduced "period" style skirting boards and never thought of the heights.

That almost makes more sense. For a certain definition of "sense".

But if the socket was there first, why so low? The skirting board is only about 20cm high.

 

[Mikegh]

Commercial Kitchens

Nightmare for dodgy electrical work.
Ring someone different everytime there's a breakdown or they need something changing, usually don't care who it is.

 

[BiddeldyBwah]

"Can you tidy this up a bit please?"
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Is it just me but i don't see the problem there..

 

[timhoward]

Is it just me but i don't see the problem there..

Yeah not too obvious from photo.
Singles in flexible conduit which crosses other conduit, and serious lack of saddles, also 3 routes to same place. 4 circuits running through EM light too.
Basically it couldn’t be tidied up without removing most of it and starting again.

 

[BiddeldyBwah]

Yeah not too obvious from photo.
Singles in flexible conduit which crosses other conduit, and serious lack of saddles, also 3 routes to same place. 4 circuits running through EM light too.
Basically it couldn’t be tidied up without removing most of it and starting again.

Ahh i see thanks for the heads up, always good to be pointed towards details that most miss.

 

[ipf]

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Yes that is either 1mm or 1.5mm in the socket, no we won't put in a spur for a 2KW water heater

Is that a worm in that food jar near the socket????

 

[James]

Is that a worm in that food jar near the socket????

It is made of glass if it is!

 

[Raptor0014]

“We don’t want the board changing. We just need the safety certificate for it.”

???‍

 

[littlespark]

Short of missing a cover, I can’t see much wrong. ?
A sheet full of C3’s but there may be other things lurking behind the cover.

Is that white flex connected?

 

[pc1966]

A sheet full of C3’s but there may be other things lurking behind the cover.

You mean a shower on a 5A circuit?

I suppose it might just be a turbo pump with its own RCD...

Is that white flex connected?

I'm sure it is just "resting in the fuse box" and anything else would be an ecumenical matter