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  1. L

    What is happening today with all these COWBOY Electricians?

    I have read several posts on here now in the last half hour and all of which claim to be an electrician and got the very basics wrong or completely cant be bothered to do anything they have to! These so called scheme providers really need to get off their A*** and start looking at who they are...
  2. calpol91

    What could happen to a cowboy spark if found out despite nothing going wrong on him?

    Ive been working in a factory the past few weeks, and the owner of the place happens to be mates with another spark. Or "sparky" The other guy doesn't have part p and im not 100% he's fully qualified. It got me thinking, what could happen if he got found out by someone? Is there someone to...
  3. T

    i can officialy call my self a cowboy.

    normal call to replace three pir's, told customer to supply pir's and i would fit on weekend. had to borrow fathers jeep to carry laders and took brother to drive. turned up three pir's cable all ready there and he wanted old pir's taken down, no problem i thought and told him about £130.00...
  4. jaydee81

    Another cowboy

    Went to look at a job today and came across a recently replaced consumer unit fed by 6mm tails protected by 100 amp supply fuse consumer unit was a 10 way dual rcd supplying a 9.5kw shower, cooker, immersion heater, ring main and two lighting circuits surprisingly no label on cu and no...
  5. D

    Taking action against a cowboy install...

    A couple of months ago my parents had a new kitchen installed. Part of the install involved a new induction hob which meant a new circuit to be added to the board. Now unfortunately they didn't tell me about anything that was going on, and ended up being talked into having their perfectly good...
  6. B

    Another Bloody Cowboy, is this the worst CU change ever ???

    Came across this recent CU change yesterday while quoting to replace some Storage Heaters. The builder had replaced the original Main CU and seperate Economy7 CU with the unit pictured below. He crammed both sets of tails into the mainswitch by cutting some cores off of each tail and put a strip...
  7. E

    in after a cowboy, cooker nearly burnt the house down!

    I have just been to look at a job where i was asked to install a cooker as the previous one had nearly burned the house down apparently. when i took the cooker out there was a large burnt patch (300m accross), loads of charcoal, almost got through 1/2" ply below . when i pulled out the heat...
  8. C

    fly by night cowboy or sparky???

    ive got my 16th, 17th, 2391, my ecs exam i am Fully Approved Napit registered. ive 8 yrs on tools worked with 2 firms in one did periodics and remedials most of the time. also a sparky who did strictly commercials a sparky who worked with strictly new builds i havnt a jib card didnt do a...
  9. La Poste

    Cowboy builders

    New measures designed to protect the public from incompetent "cowboy" builders were announced by the government on Wednesday and given a cautious welcome by MPs. Tradesmen who operate self-check schemes, which allow them to assess their own work, will be required to meet higher standards, the...
  10. S

    new cowboy builders

    new cowboy builders on channel5 tonight,looking forward to it,or is that just me sounding sad
  11. M

    thinking of becoming a cowboy

    Doing it properly is so expensive. Due to health issues i work part time but i am finding i am lossing money due to the cost of being a electrician. To get my JIB card but have to do a H&S exam £42 and as the regs change January i will have to do the update (i did the 17th 2 years ago)to get...
    • Matty o
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    • aus becoming cowboy thinking
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Australia
  12. D

    Cowboy

    I had a call from a regular customer asking if I would go to a friend of theirs house as they were having problems with some smoke alarms they have just had fitted. Well why not call the person back that had fitted them? Well apparently they had, he'd come back and looked and said there was...
    • drew35
    • Thread
    • aus cowboy
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Australia
  13. S

    cowboy builders

    any of you guys been watching this what a show,shocking to see what members of the public will agree to pay for. thinking of doing a bit of cowboy work myself if it means melinda messinger coming round lol
  14. A

    Tricky situation regarding a cowboy.

    Went to visit a close friend yesterday. They said they'd had a bit of electric work done, and he was really cheap. New light pull switch and new pendant as a like for like, then, a double outside socket put in. £85 complete. As you can imagine, I was a bit wary when I heard the price. I knew...
    • alanl
    • Thread
    • aus cowboy regarding situation
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Australia
  15. S

    Cowboy Builders

    New Series now on Channel 5 God, i really dont like her.
  16. E

    the cowboy anthem

    YouTube - Cowboy electrician
    • egginyourface
    • Thread
    • aus cowboy
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Australia
  17. E

    Whats the best cowboy job you've seen?

    at a job today and saw a plug pluged into a socket followed the flex and it went into the wall and was chased up the wall feeding 4 wall lights lol... Good Stuff! :p
  18. K

    Cowboy Electrician or not?

    Hi I am seeking some advise not sure if i you can help or point me in the right direction, I have had some electrical work done in my council home, the council stated they need an niceic contractor to carry out the works and to provide a electrical installtion cert with part p. I used...
    • killerking
    • Thread
    • aus cowboy electric electrical electrician
    • Replies: 34
    • Forum: Australia
  19. P

    met cowboy spark today.

    Went to a job today to fit new sw spur for cooker hood extract and supply eic cert for the ring I worked on. While I was there a guy was stood in the kitchen marking out the walls for sockets . The lady told me he was a local odd job man who is also tiling the wall . She said our company were...
    • pritch
    • Thread
    • aus cowboy spark today
    • Replies: 71
    • Forum: Australia
  20. M

    Cowboy Builders have Part P qualified Electrician Inspecting dodgey work!

    And its Sponsored by Myhammer!! LOL
    • mattmoo1974
    • Thread
    • builder builders cowboy electric electrical electrical work electrician part part p qualified qualified electrician
    • Replies: 26
    • Forum: Industrial Electricians' Talk

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