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

[Darkwood]

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.



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

 

[nicebutdim]

I'm letting some of these go but can we keep this to dodgy electrical pics.

I tend to most enjoy picutres of situations members have stumbled across, rather than images lifted at random from the internet.

 

[hydrocarbonPrimate]

Gas pipe underneath hob

 

[littlespark]

Gas pipe underneath hob

Not great. At least the gas valve there is turned off.

 

[Simon47]

Not great. At least the gas valve there is turned off.

At least it HAS a gas valve. A few years ago in our rental flat the hob developed a leak. No gas valve, so had to pay someone to come in and disconnect it temporarily while I bought a new one, then pay them to come back and fit the new one. Asked if he could fit a valve and told no, no room for it (which to be fair was probably correct without pulling units out to alter the pipework.

 

[LewisM]

Burnt out heater connector on a few months old £200m plane

 

[DefyG]

Burnt out heater connector on a few months old £200m plane

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Looks like it got 'HOT' just as it says on the tin!

 

[littlespark]

What the actual **** is going on here?



I’ll show you more later.

 

[Moley]

Is the plug supplying the FCU? What's the FCU connected to?

 

[littlespark]

Next image….



The plug flex goes into the fcu, supplying it backwards… then buried t&e up to this lightswitch.
Up the wall, the left turn and buried in the plaster around the edge corner of the chimney breast to feed the spotlights.

Guess where the rawlplug is holding the spotlights up.


All this has been stripped out. But I’ve discovering more and more strange things in this flat.

 

[freddo]

At least the FCU wasn't supplying the socket!

 

[littlespark]

Not found in the wild, but it popped up on that tickety-tock thing on my phone….



“You got that hole drilled yet?”

“Yeh, boss”

 

[Moley]

I stayed at a little self catering place last night. I noticed the splash back thingy wasn't fixed to the wall so I took a look behind.

 

[timhoward]

This week's collection:
1 - sent by my assistant in his holiday let. Many questions come to mind and that's before you read the label.
I asked him if it was an SPD tester.

2 - I don't think I've ever found 3 live sources over a single downlight before... 2 transformers with primary energised, secondary failed on one, both bulb holders still connected, and in addition a live GU10 bulb holder...

3 - The worst quote of the week in terms of expected time taken, adding a 2nd light switch other end of garage, how hard can it be? New switch and 3 core ran in about 25 minutes. Then I took the cover of the existing 1 gang switch... and this wasn't what I was expecting. Rather impressive! The 1mm T+E was eventually traced to an outside socket "for Christmas stuff".

 

[UNG]

This week's collection:
1 - sent by my assistant in his holiday let. Many questions come to mind and that's before you read the label.
I asked him if it was an SPD tester.

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I know the UK weather isn't the best at times but lightning strikes on demand is going a bit too far

 

[Welchyboy1]

The block of flats i do maintenance for had a brand new Tesla charger installed, I knew the guy whose parking space it was lived in the next block on the 2nd floor

Had to have a nose to see where he supplied it from

Gonna see alot more of this type of thing!

What about the poor guy who cuts the grass!

I wonder how its been protected at the consumer unit end?

 

[littlespark]

Report it.

Is there a management co. that looks after the grassed areas? This has introduced a hazard that shouldn’t be there…. As you say, the grass cutter might get a bit of a shock when he next runs over it.

Is it a UK compliment charge point or an Amazonian special?

 

[LewisM]

Bloody hell that's rough, why not run it in SWA at a minimum

 

[LewisM]

Cable incorrectly routed meaning over time it was shorting against seat mechanism

Luckily there was enough length to reterminate

 

[Mike Johnson]

Wow looks like the underside of a jet pilots ejector seat, but probably just a Skoda if the truth where known?

 

[Welchyboy1]

Report it.

Is there a management co. that looks after the grassed areas? This has introduced a hazard that shouldn’t be there…. As you say, the grass cutter might get a bit of a shock when he next runs over it.

Is it a UK compliment charge point or an Amazonian special?

Yeah i did report it, they were actually given permission to install it apparently and the managem,ent company didnt seem too bothered, i forwarded these pictures to cover my --- tho

It was a Tesla unit

 

[LewisM]

Wow looks like the underside of a jet pilots ejector seat, but probably just a Skoda if the truth where known?

Business class seat 777-200

 

[littlespark]

Yeah i did report it, they were actually given permission to install it apparently and the managem,ent company didnt seem too bothered, i forwarded these pictures to cover my --- tho

It was a Tesla unit

Could they have not rearranged the parking spaces so his was directly below his flat… negating the need to cut across the grass.

It’s an actual Tesla charge point?

You think he could afford to have it done properly then

 

[LewisM]

He's gunna have all the neighbours charging from it when he's away

 

[littlespark]

He's gunna have all the neighbours charging from it when he's away

naaah...

if its a smart charge point, (as it should be if for sale in UK) then it can be programmed to only work from a phone app.... or, when hes away, he can simply turn it off from within his flat.

 

[Moley]

Not electrical but I found this amusing. While wandering around Merthyr waiting for my Transit to have the work done on it's recall I saw this on a busy(ish, as busy as Merthyr gets) street. I didn't see a scafftag on it though. They did take safety seriously, those planks are screwed into the ally poles of the scaff

 

[littlespark]

i read that wrong.... I thought you said "While wandering around Merthyr LOOKING for my Transit"

Like, damn, i forgot where i parked it....


I thought this was a new transit? whats needing done to it already?

 

[Moley]

If you leave it long enough in Merthyr you will have to look for it, it'll be long gone.
Anyway, there's a recall on the new shape Transit. The software on the body control module needs updating. The main problem is the alarm going off whenever it feels like. I've had to leave it unlocked overnight whenever I'm home. If I'm working away I just park somewhere where I won't hear the alarm going off.

 

[ChipFanDave]

Not electrical but I found this amusing. While wandering around Merthyr waiting for my Transit to have the work done on it's recall I saw this on a busy(ish, as busy as Merthyr gets) street. I didn't see a scafftag on it though. They did take safety seriously, those planks are screwed into the ally poles of the scaff

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That scaffolding has been there for a few years.

 

[HappyHippyDad]

I didn't realise Darkwood had left the forum.

 

[freddo]

One of a list of jobs during a small referb of a guest house on a large estate was to replace the built in oven and hob.
Thought there might have been connectors under the tape.

Nope, just twisted together! That is a 2.8kW oven and 5.5kW hob, twisted and taped. Can't have had much use, didn't see any signs of overheating.

The wood screw holding the cooker switch back was the fist sign of issues.

 

[freddo]

Just to complete the picture this was found on the other side of the room. Outside light supply tapped off a socket cable via connector blocks stuffed in the wall. There was easily enough slack cable and space in the 35mm back box to fit an FCU.

 

[DefyG]

Looking at a potential job recently, discovered what appeared to be a very narrow CU! However opening the cupboard door revealed a full size board!
You can see where the door has been scribed around the CU profile to provide a close fit! Ingenious or what?

 

[James]

Looking at a potential job recently, discovered what appeared to be a very narrow CU! However opening the cupboard door revealed a full size board!
You can see where the door has been scribed around the CU profile to provide a close fit! Ingenious or what?

Not sure if that belongs in dodgy pics, I am leaning more towards ingenious!!

 

[mainline]

30-minute job turns into a nightmare.

Ceilings are going to have to be taken down to get access.

Cables clipped to the floorboards, a first for me.

 

[James]

Wow,never seen that before

 

[mainline]

Wow,never seen that before

It had 5 Fcu's in the ceiling feeding upstairs sockets, I'm guessing he thought every spur needed a fcu for each socket outlet.

Eicr done 3 months ago.
I had to pull a floorboard to install smokes, guess it's going to take a bit longer

 

[littlespark]

The underside of the floorboards look painted…. So exposed at one time? The cables would have been clipped if on show.

It’s just been added to badly over the years?… then ceiling put up and forgotten about.

 

[mainline]

The underside of the floorboards look painted…. So exposed at one time? The cables would have been clipped if on show.

It’s just been added to badly over the years?… then ceiling put up and forgotten about.

Yes, you can see the joists are painted black.

Instead of clipping to the joists, he clipped to the floorboards for some reason.

Loads of junction boxes, some for no reason other than the cable was too short.

 

[Jock from the north]

Nope..... That is not how you feed power to the garage mate.

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Posted this up ages ago but it still make me chuckle.

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That would confuse your r1+r2 test lol

 

[Jock from the north]

One of a list of jobs during a small referb of a guest house on a large estate was to replace the built in oven and hob.
Thought there might have been connectors under the tape.
View attachment 118891 Nope, just twisted together! That is a 2.8kW oven and 5.5kW hob, twisted and taped. Can't have had much use, didn't see any signs of overheating.
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The wood screw holding the cooker switch back was the fist sign of issues.
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