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

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Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.

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I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. :omg_smile:

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Dustydazzler said:
Lovely days work sorting all that lot out

Assuming its not Eco7, you could fit a lovely Rcbo board an replace those 3 x 3036 boards and do away with all those tails splitters
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Yes thats the intention but there are lots of other problems that need looking at as there are sub main feeds to a kitchen and stables Pme earthing, tails from cut out are around 15mtrs running through fabric, etc etc

The E7 is still there, but not used any more.
 
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mainline said:
Yes thats the intention but there are lots of other problems that need looking at as there are sub main feeds to a kitchen and stables Pme earthing, tails from cut out are around 15mtrs running through fabric, etc etc
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It has an astonish "this has grown and mutated for 50 years" look to it, with never a "lets do it properly" stage!

mainline said:
The E7 is still there, but not used any more.
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I guess even if they had/wanted that then @Dustydazzler 's suggestion could work with a dual-row RCBO board if needed?
 
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pc1966 said:
It has an astonish "this has grown and mutated for 50 years" look to it, with never a "lets do it properly" stage!


I guess even if they had/wanted that then @Dustydazzler 's suggestion could work with a dual-row RCBO board if needed?
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Spot on, did over the last 45yrs or so.
Not due to be done yet but joined to a cottage which I have to try to sort out.
 
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marconi said:
If you do this job then a series of time-lapse images from start to finish would be nice to watch. And a few remarks and comments by each perhaps in way of a master-class.
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It's not due to be done for a while, but I will do as you suggest, there are more than a few problems that need to be addressed first.

post #7,000 is the adjoining cottage, which feeds a sub main to another cottage.



I don't know about Master class though :)
 
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5 amp lighting fuse had four wires.
1 - every light in house (IR of zero)
2 - not identified (IR of >299M)
3 - smokes (IR of >299M)
4 - outside light.

Every pendant had a hidden junction box above it so I was looking for an easy place to break the circuit.
First floor board I pull up:

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Oh great.. every fitting probably like this, and separating them didn't improve IR.
Obviously I wasn't going to leave it like that, so I did my own dodgy contribution as I'd run out of cable ties. I felt it was in keeping with the rest of the house.
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pc1966 said:
Taking down a temporary power feed this morning. had been working perfectly well, last used Thursday I think. Decided to see how dry the Wago box was, lost quite a bit of water before getting this far:
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Yup, the lower half (as it sat dangling from the 3 core) was ice and the rest water. I am surprised it didn't trip the RCD, maybe the water was relatively pure?
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Presumably wicked down along the earth wire.
 
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pc1966 said:
Taking down a temporary power feed this morning. had been working perfectly well, last used Thursday I think. Decided to see how dry the Wago box was, lost quite a bit of water before getting this far.
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Can't remember if I posted this, but you wouldn't have had the issue had you followed this exemplarily method of working:
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pc1966 said:
Taking down a temporary power feed this morning. had been working perfectly well, last used Thursday I think. Decided to see how dry the Wago box was, lost quite a bit of water before getting this far:
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Yup, the lower half (as it sat dangling from the 3 core) was ice and the rest water. I am surprised it didn't trip the RCD, maybe the water was relatively pure?
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I dont think the membrane seal is intended to seal when you poke a hole in it like that.
a suitable compression gland would have probably done much better.
p.s. the glands need to be done up correctly with a spanner, hand tight will not provide a good seal.
 
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pc1966 said:
Taking down a temporary power feed this morning. had been working perfectly well, last used Thursday I think. Decided to see how dry the Wago box was, lost quite a bit of water before getting this far:
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Yup, the lower half (as it sat dangling from the 3 core) was ice and the rest water. I am surprised it didn't trip the RCD, maybe the water was relatively pure?
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In fairness I thought that ice was what was left of the gel😂😂😂
It looks like a Wiska Box rather than a Wago Box though, and I've never seen water in (or ice) in one of those before, but never seen one done quite like that either.
 
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As above, if it was buzzzzzzzing, i would Wasp the F out of there.

some interesting collection of wire types and not quite perfect terminations.
 
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Had a regular customer in a semi detached house, with a simple pyramid shaped roof covering both properties.
About 15 minutes after turning the loft light on, there would be two or three hornets buzzing around it, just two or three, never any more. Looked into every corner many times, and never saw any signs of a nest, or any other clue as to where they were coming from.
Was like this, every time, over a period of about 20 years.
 
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I worked in a local village hall a couple years ago.... stuck my head up the attic hatch, pulling cables from the higher roofspace above the actual hall.... working away quite happily.... then i turned around.....

Bloody wasp nest, 2 foot in diameter!.... 2 FOOT!!!!
 
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littlespark said:
F**king hate wasps..... nasty little beasties.
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Not too keen on them myself.
They set up camp inside the solid stone wall of my living room a few years ago, getting in and out through failed pointing in multiple places. A complete can of expanding foam into the wall dealt with them.
They weren't too happy about that and went on the attack, but they don't fly too well with a lump of rapidly expanding and hardening foam on their backs.
 
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littlespark said:
i think i maybe did!

F**king hate wasps..... nasty little beasties.
I keep a spray can of wasp killer in my van for such eventualities
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Washing up liquid kills them on contact. Spray bottle with a fairly strong solution of it will sort them in no time, without lasting impact on your lungs or expanding foam stuck to everything.

I didn't believe this would work until they decided to begin nesting in our bin - huge swarm neutralised in a couple of minutes.
 
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Had to deal with these bees, at least it was outside, but had to open the window to unlatch the shutters, I found that the Hornets tend to leave you alone if you don't wave your arms around, they where quite happy buzzing around me whilst I was re-pointing the chimney.

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nicebutdim said:
Washing up liquid kills them on contact. Spray bottle with a fairly strong solution of it will sort them in no time, without lasting impact on your lungs or expanding foam stuck to everything.

I didn't believe this would work until they decided to begin nesting in our bin - huge swarm neutralised in a couple of minutes.
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Scairy Liquid......to the wasps, then?
 
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