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[Midwest]

It's not a tab welded on, it's the other screw behind it...

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Me thinks that tab, is in fact the second bolt head fixing the clasp to enclosure.

 

[Richard Burns]

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"My cooker stopped working, can you call round and have a look?"
Lol

I had a call that every time the kettle was switched on the fuse in the FCU blows, but only when the hob is also on: double socket and 4 plate hob wired through a 13A FCU!

 

[Andy78]

I had a call that every time the kettle was switched on the fuse in the FCU blows, but only when the hob is also on: double socket and 4 plate hob wired through a 13A FCU!

I had a call last week. Kitchen sockets are all off except 1, all circuit breakers and RCDs are switched on. Sure enough all that proved to be true.
Next to the working socket was a FCU for the under cabinet lights that had never worked. Yep, Kev kitchen fitter had wired the cupboard lights into the supply side and left the lights unplugged from the socket provided for them above the units. The rest of the kitchen, 3 above counter double sockets, fridge socket, and washer/drier socket were off the load side.
Washer had been put on, wife was heating up the iron, husband decided to make some toast, one blown fuse. I think the fuse did well to make it 8 years without popping.

 

[Phil Thompson]

I had a call last week. Kitchen sockets are all off except 1, all circuit breakers and RCDs are switched on. Sure enough all that proved to be true.
Next to the working socket was a FCU for the under cabinet lights that had never worked. Yep, Kev kitchen fitter had wired the cupboard lights into the supply side and left the lights unplugged from the socket provided for them above the units. The rest of the kitchen, 3 above counter double sockets, fridge socket, and washer/drier socket were off the load side.
Washer had been put on, wife was heating up the iron, husband decided to make some toast, one blown fuse. I think the fuse did well to make it 8 years without popping.

Ive a garage to go and wire on Monday that is currently spurred of a socket in an upstairs bedroom, which itself is spurred off the ring. Into a consumer unit and then 2 radial sockets, one on a 6ft fridge freezer and the other a tumble dryer.
Which apparently had melted a socket so the homeowner put on an rcd socket. Lol

Tomorrow I'm going to speak to a bakery/sandwich bar/deli place, it's a complete balls from what I seen in the few minutes I had to look the other day, but by initial looks each circuit is overloaded, with ring mains running well over what it's capable of, and where radials are in place they are well under rated, and it will quite possibly require 3 phase to be able to supply the load from all equipment they have, the guy who was doing the work has been given thousands by the owner from what I believe, but not sure if he's legit as I can't imagine they've certificates for the place.


she was on holiday and back today, so will have a look over it properly and speak to her.

 

[hightower]

Not exactly the worst thing in the world, but we only let council electricians work on our electrics at work. Councils are renowned for their red tape policies, but I didn't think it was literal.

 

[Andy78]

Not exactly the worst thing in the world, but we only let council electricians work on our electrics at work. Councils are renowned for their red tape policies, but I didn't think it was literal.

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I see the RCD didn't pass it's tests. Still got it's L plate on.

 

[hightower]

Thing is, I can't work out whether the tape is there as a barrier, or whether it's there to encourage the breaker to stay in the on position

 

[Phil Thompson]

If that comment is genuine, I suggest you find yourself a more suitable occupation, one that doesn't require any thinking, or common sense, like building site security at night or something like that.

 

[hightower]

If your comment is genuine I suggest you go somewhere that doesn't require a sense of humour.

 

[Hellmooth]

 

[Darkwood]

I suggest we don't get into a war of words here guys, as I read it, hightower's comment was jovial and said in jest regardless of the mechanics of mcb which would still operate in a fault or overload as it still integrally trips regardless of external switch tab position.

If anyone here needs to have the finger pointed at them to find a more suitable occupation then it would be the person who put the tape on the CU and thought this was ok as oppose to one of our forum Trainee's.

Play nice guys

 

[Simonslimline]

Not exactly the worst thing in the world, but we only let council electricians work on our electrics at work. Councils are renowned for their red tape policies, but I didn't think it was literal.

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Why spend money on a blank plate when you have tape in your pocket! :cowboy:

 

[Dave OCD]

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Atrocious ! And yet they still went to the trouble of clipping the cables where they enter the box in the 1st picture !:shocked3:

 

[Hellmooth]

Atrocious ! And yet they still went to the trouble of clipping the cables where they enter the box in the 1st picture !:shocked3:

Crazy eh! Was doing an eicr and get some odd voltage readings at the switches, had to search for this junction box to find out what was going on, it was under tongue and groove boards in the loft, had to strip them right back to pretty much the last one, hate t and g boards!

 

[Dave OCD]

Crazy eh! Was doing an eicr and get some odd voltage readings at the switches, had to search for this junction box to find out what was going on, it was under tongue and groove boards in the loft, had to strip them right back to pretty much the last one, hate t and g boards!

Me too, ever quoted for a job that involves running cables through a loft only to find it's jammed full of crap and boarded out everywhere after you make a start ? :lipsrsealed2:

 

[Hellmooth]

Me too, ever quoted for a job that involves running cables through a loft only to find it's jammed full of crap and boarded out everywhere after you make a start ? :lipsrsealed2:

Too often......?! :hurray:

 

[Dave OCD]

Too often......?! :hurray:

I'd never be that daft of course.....

 

[Hellmooth]

I am......too often :tounge_smile:

 

[Dave OCD]

I am......too often :tounge_smile:

Well I'm 52 now mate and experience doesn't necessarily improve things.

 

[Hellmooth]

Well I'm 52 now mate and experience doesn't necessarily improve things.

I'm 31 and got plenty more messy lofts to come across lol!

 

[Leesparkykent]

I'm 31 and got plenty more messy lofts to come across lol!

You need a lad to send up there lol.

 

[Dave OCD]

You need a lad to send up there lol.

Got one Lee, still wary of him putting his size 9 through the ceiling though.

 

[Leesparkykent]

Got one Lee, still wary of him putting his size 9 through the ceiling though.

Lol and im such a fussy git that I end up climbing up there anyway to double check all the loft wiring has been clipped/dressed properly.

 

[Dave OCD]

Lol and im such a fussy git that I end up climbing up there anyway to double check all the loft wiring has been clipped/dressed properly.

You could be describing me there.

 

[Hellmooth]

You need a lad to send up there lol.

Trying to sort it out at the moment lol!

 

[LeeH]

No need to go and reset after a fault.

 

[LeeH]

 

[Dave OCD]

lol It'll be on and off at 1 minute intervals or less all night. :biggrin:

 

[hightower]

lol It'll be on and off at 1 minute intervals or less all night. [emoji3]

Maybe that was the designers intention. Like a poor guys disco, or perhaps the customer didn't pay so thought he'd show them haha

 

[telectrix]

lol It'll be on and off at 1 minute intervals or less all night. :biggrin:

bloody obvious. the photocell is not to activate the light. it's there to trigger a warning buzzer in the night shift sleep room when the boss turns up in his range rover, thus activating the light via a PIR ( out of shot for security reasons).

 

[LeeH]

 

[overskilled]

On the sauce but....torched holesaw??

 

[slingshot2000]

I had the same happen to a hole-saw (will look to see if I still have it). I had 10 down-lights to fit in a ceiling and it destroyed 2 cutters. It was and old farmhouse and I have no idea what was in the plaster.

 

[telectrix]

save that. it'll do just great cutting the pastry for mince pies.

 

[Pete999]

On the sauce but....torched holesaw??

Reminds me of a story from my Apprenticeship, had a bully mentor and we were cutting holes with an ENOX cutter ( remember them old timers) told me to get it sharpened, which you never did, had a Chippy mate who could though, should have seen the look on my mentors face.

 

[Lagentium]

Looks like the top of a piston!

 

[slingshot2000]

An upside down piston ?
It would not provide much compression as a piston, with those 3 holes in the top !

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Got a call to do a different job & found this supplying the shower.

 

[Pete999]

Got a call to do a different job & found this supplying the shower.

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Ruff Ruff as ===holes

 

[Darkwood]

Got a call to do a different job & found this supplying the shower.

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Rough but I particularly like the magic earth bar - it be one of them new wireless versions.