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

[ChrisElectrical88]

That’s dog poop that. Looks awful.
I’ve had to crowbar a old board off the Wall today to replace it due to tonnes and tonnes of fire foam used in the top of it. Then had to go into the eves of a loft to ---- about getting the foam out of the hole and the cables clean at about midday. Came out looking like I’d done a morning swim.

 

[Dustydazzler]

are you sure that they are screwded to the MDf board and not just held on by the bushing nut....?

 

[telectrix]

Brand new install. This is what they did today. Rather than change the Tee to a elbow, even had a spare elbow, they just (badly) cut the trunking around the tee.240V cable in left trunking, 24V fire alarm on the right, both go up into the ceiling. Easy access from above.
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Installed today. I would not have the cheek to leave it pi**ed like that. Only MDF, so no excuse.View attachment 59036

and those faceplate screws are all over the place.

 

[Telecoms_man]

Too lazy to swap a tee for an elbow. It was their mess up in the first place, they had run their high level horizontal trunking the full length, blocking other services and even removing my cabling that was coming through the ceiling. It had all been agreed, their stuff on the left and mine on the right, even marked as such.
Trunking to the left has 240V mains, on the right is 24V fire alarm, but they have also now run 240V mains in the right hand side to feed the two fused spurs.

Will the NICEIC be bothered if I reported it & asked them to come & inspect?
Rest of their work is dog s*** also.
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This is their new wiring in the loft, the grey and red cables. On the other side of the wooden wall is a hall, they have strung their cables from the rafters, using offcuts of T&E with a screw through it for cable supports.

 

[Dustydazzler]

2 nasty looking screws poking out that wood ...

 

[Baddegg]

panicked me for a split second....

 

[Let me think]

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panicked me for a split second....

No "insulating tape"...shocking.....

 

[Dustydazzler]

Room stat where they have used the cpc as a live...?

And what heck is that metal bracket poking out the wall

 

[telectrix]

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panicked me for a split second....

should have used one of these, much neater:

 

[Julie.]

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panicked me for a split second....

Absolutely disgusting!

That needs to get fixed - decent wallpaper isn't that expensive!

 

[Dustydazzler]

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panicked me for a split second....

What you do in instances like this is turn around and pretend you never saw it...

 

[Baddegg]

Room stat where they have used the cpc as a live...?

And what heck is that metal bracket poking out the wall

Metal wall lights ...

 

[Simon47]

Will the NICEIC be bothered if I reported it & asked them to come & inspect?

Doubt it - anecdotally they don't seem to be bothered unless it's so obviously dangerous that they can't find a reason to ignore it. Can you argue that segregation has been lost between your ELV cabling and their mains.

... they have strung their cables from the rafters, using offcuts of T&E with a screw through it for cable supports.

Plastic coated metal hangers then

 

[Dustydazzler]

Doubt it - anecdotally they don't seem to be bothered unless it's so obviously dangerous that they can't find a reason to ignore it. Can you argue that segregation has been lost between your ELV cabling and their mains.


Plastic coated metal hangers then

seen the old off cuts cable hangers loads of times usually just nailed to the joist...
it’s not a bad way to bunch cables and to hold them up in place.
i have even done it myself when I was out of all round band.

 

[pirate]

I was instantly inclined to the same view as Julie...however, paper like that, if properly hung, could designate the prescribed zones...you'd just have to get the stripes in the right places...

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

Came back to a house refurb. Ariel man couldn’t be arsed to drill his own holes.

 

[Baddegg]

Cut em out....and when he comes back slap him ?

 

[DPG]

Came back to a house refurb. Ariel man couldn’t be arsed to drill his own holes.

It it was my house, I'd have stuck the aerial cable through that same hole to be honest. Obviously I wouldn't have run it alongside the T&E for any distance. There, I've admitted it!

 

[littlespark]

I think the problem lies with aerial man pulling his cables in and friction burning through the T&E.
Send 230v down his co-ax when hes connecting the telly up... blame it on his install method

 

[DPG]

Ah, never saw the 2nd picture. Jeez, how much force did he put on that? The coax will be twice as long now!