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You are not alone.

In one building I regularly work in they have
-a locked door with a neat, clearly legible, label on it identifying it as the electrical intake. Seems pretty self explanatory yes? No, some muppet with a clipboard from head office came round and insisted that this bright yellow 'warning high voltage' sticker be put on the door.
-doors opening into a cable riser on each floor, no DBs or anything else in there, just a couple of trays and some trunking, the doors are kept locked and everyone who needs to know what's in there knows. Along comes the clipboard wielding womble and now there's these hideous (wonky) yellow stickers warning the world of the high voltage inside.
 
davesparks and julie,
I intend to fit gland on incomer, for cable restraint ,but waiting til I fit new cable/
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Sadly it's Men's Shed Charity and has had to close due to the coronavirus, which is a bummer.

However...
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and today I have worked out how to print these labels onto standard Avery sheets!
YAY!
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baddegg and static...I'm working on it!

Arrh

I hate that warning label, it's the worse one of all the ones we're supposed to add!

At least the others make some sense.

Should have gone with the "stairs can go down as well as up" option

More useful than the wiring colours!!
 
I just noticed you warning label IS HELD ON WITH SELLOTAPE!!!! Never mind wonky.... sello-flippin’-tape!

I thought you were a pro....
 
Was sent this earlier via 'Pro Elec'.
Ee Ba Gum...that's tasty!!!
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When you combine two things, such as a spoon and a fork, it's usual to create a portmanteau such as spork (although others create it the other way around as foon).

Since this is a clever way of combining a fork and a bracket perhaps it should be called a Fo'cket.

The guy obviously just thought Fo'cket when he did the job!
 
First of all, I hate labels! I do have to satisfy a "spreadsheet" mentality however...
and yes, I hang my head in shame for using sellotape but that's what was to hand...

On the fork thingy, does anyone remember "Splayds"?
I thought they were a 70s thing, but apparently they are still on the market...

That fire exit pic tho...o_Oo_Oo_O
 
That door needs a sign on the push-bar such as "fire exit, push to exit"

Or else no-one will know how to use it or what it is!
 
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Very nasty little widowmaker found above a ceiling. One klik rose was perm for emergency, other was switched supply from PIR. Previous installer had bridged the lives together in the fitting in the switched terminal - so the emergency side had never worked anyway, and pins of either klik plug were live when the other was unplugged.

In a school. Honestly they're the worst for it. Big "maintenance" firms smashing the remedials out with so many layers of people that there's basically no accountability.
 
I have come across this several times where a big bunched bundle of 2.5 red / black singles are being used as tails...
at first I was cursing the badger who installed such an abomination.
but after My initial shock horror I kinda had to stand back and admire the handwork.
 

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