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

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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.

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

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from a few months ago...
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This has been like this for over 1 year. The blacks are neutrals, running around the cable tray for about 25 metres

Supplied from....

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shef11 said:
View attachment 29021Responded to a call out to replace the usual broken pendant and glossed over light switch at a tenants property. Went to knock power off to find the main RCCB switch was already in the "off" position. That's odd I thought. Anyway on removal of the lid I was confronted with this delight!
Spoke to the tenant to find out if anyone had been tinkering. Apparently a few "months" earlier they had contacted the out of hours emergency electricians to restore their power. This crew were from the main contractor that service all the council properties in the city. To bypass a main switch is one thing but to connect the mains directly to an out going shower circuit is quite another. No one was scheduled to come back and rectify it either, as far as I was aware.
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Haha that's one way to solve nuisance tripping!
 
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Should explain. First pic, cutting of cable, was within a commercial boiler. Heating loop had burst and boiler had run dry and boiled it's nuts off, the stat and thermal cut out had both been messed about with by a previous hero and is why we think they never cut off before the damage was done. Actually surprised the cable got to the point it did before the fuse blew! This incident also killed two pumps.

Second one was loop burst again and pump ran dry and caught fire. Luckily RCD tripped and fire was contained within the boiler.
 
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This is a socket, obviously, it was down the side of a fridge, basically the house movers had forced a fridge in a hole far too small and dented the side of the fridge, and the force had broken the socket because the inner but as you can see had been pushed in, it then went bang because the earth tag cut into the live wire behind!

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To be fair, Davis skirting trunking always used to be a pain in the @rse, especially where a partition wall had gone up and the lid could no longer be removed. The surface mounted data point on the bottom L.H.S. of the picture must be an afterthought because outlets used to be mounted on plates which were held on by brackets either side of the plate. Having said that, whoever made that hole in the lid couldn’t have been the brightest kid on the block.:13:
 
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I came across this while carrying out remedial works in holiday cottages. These had been tested a few weeks earlier. Given the all clear. :)
Defiantly a code one..
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sorry the pic is not that clear.. Can you spot it?
 
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The only C1 I can see is because you have the cover off and there is a loose line from the controller in the centre a bit close to the earth bar.
The board is a mess and seems to have two supplies, the MCB on the end is a bit odd fed from the supply side.
 
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Richard Burns said:
The only C1 I can see is because you have the cover off and there is a loose line from the controller in the centre a bit close to the earth bar.
The board is a mess and seems to have two supplies, the MCB on the end is a bit odd fed from the supply side.
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look a little closer ..

i will give one more guess.

a clue... i got a belt after turning off both isolators
 
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Richard Burns said:
"MCB on the end is a bit odd fed from the supply side." of the main switch
I suppose this is the C1, no ready means of isolation for this circuit.
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your right.. the square d board is fed from the top rail, plug in mcbs and main switch etc..

Num nuts fitted a dorman smith breaker and took a 2.5 from the main tail to it.

so when you isolate the board the last breaker is still live.

the worrying thing to me is the guy who tested it thinks its ok..
 
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If I had had a belt of that, I would have stuck my hammer through the lot of it. That would have isolated it alright, back at the sub-station. It would of cause have been a reflex action and I could therefore not be held responsible for it.:smile:
 
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Kamikaze said:
If I had had a belt of that, I would have stuck my hammer through the lot of it. That would have isolated it alright, back at the sub-station. It would of cause have been a reflex action and I could therefore not be held responsible for it.:smile:
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what happened, i was going to remove a fused spur so the walls could be tilled, i was the only one in the lodge so just turned off the main switches, i know we should check, but you would think it would be off.

As i got hold of the wires, i did swear a bit.

Lesson learnt for all of us.
 
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