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

[Julie.]

Scarey!!
Out of interest, how were the cables? Scorched and brittle or good condition?

Actually mainly ok, but they were disconnected and ripped out within minutes of finding out, after I calmed down!!!

 

[Julie.]

Rough as a badger's posterior

Aye, and the bell wire wiring wasn't too good before i started either........

 

[Dave OCD]

Asbestos CUs in Scotland.... and don’t worry about hand sanatizer.... for years we’ve been using Wire Brush and Dettol!

I heard that before, but not on your hands ??!! :-0

 

[ipf]

This old head is a beautiful mess. Lovely earthing and bonding.
VIR tails with heat shrink....mind you, pretty difficult to replace.
1930's....and found some original rubber twins still in use.

The other VIRs to disused off peak.

 

[freddo]

Very nice, not come across that brand name before.

 

[Ziggie]

Not electrical but still made me chuckle this was a builders handy work who was doing a few jobs while I was doing some electrical jobs,
Spot the mistake!!

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Can’t get my handle on the fault

 

[Julie.]

Can’t get my handle on the fault

Many years ago when we first moved to Scotland, we decided to add concealed bolts to the double doors into the garden (this sort of thing https://www.screwfix.com/p/era-brass-concealed-door-security-bolts-60mm-2-pack/5748G)

So he carefully marked the holes, removed the doors so he could drill for the bolt from below and above as they couldn't be done in situ.

He made a really good job tbh.

But when he put the doors back on, it turned out he had drilled and fitted the escutcheons for the star key on the OUTSIDE!!!

He wasn't a happy bunny, threw a nice 5 year old style tantrum!

 

[LewisM]

Almost had a bad Sunday....

 

[Zerax]

Almost had a bad Sunday....

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I think you should buy a lottery ticket !

 

[nicebutdim]

Almost had a bad Sunday....

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Someone posted a video from Chris the plumber earlier and I ended up watching it.

He had a similarly close call when cutting out downlights - gas pipe running through ceiling void.

 

[bill01803]

Thought you might like this one, pipe could have gone at any height!

 

[Dustydazzler]

i Used to always panic drilling blind through walls even after measuring to predict where the drill would poke out...
there are quite a few houses where I live plumbed using micro bore copper pipe buried in the plaster , it goes any where and everywhere with no thought or zoning

 

[GBDamo]

Surprisingly not the cause of the issue but certainly one for the future.

 

[Pete999]

Surprisingly not the cause of the issue but certainly one for the future.
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Class job is that.

 

[ruston]

Yes , used a cable tie . Touch of class.

 

[James]

At least they used brown tape to show it was live!!

 

[littlespark]

Was that Halfords own fitting service? Wouldn’t trust them to change a headlight bulb

 

[Dustydazzler]

Had they not put the cable tie on , that would have been a rough ole job

 

[ipf]

It's just more shopfitters shyte.....to be expected.

Has someone removed a light above the sign?

 

[bill01803]

I thought this one might amuse