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

[ghosty01]

shower fed in 6mm with no sheath (he'd got the wrong size trunking) connected in that box in 15A connectors and then run up the side of the house with not a clip in site. Needless to say he wasn't happy when we called and asked if he'd done any form of training before!

 

[amlu]

Customer advises " I think I've got a problem with my lighting"......
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looks like a central junction box for the lights . get up there, clean it up, see what does what and remake with some labels and wagos.
worth getting a helper, you sit comfortably testing in the loft, someone goes around with a wander lead or flips the switches.
at least is one in all place.

 

[polo1]

looks like a central junction box for the lights . get up there, clean it up, see what does what and remake with some labels and wagos.
worth getting a helper, you sit comfortably testing in the loft, someone goes around with a wander lead or flips the switches.
at least is one in all place.

You've got it in one, that's the plan (I just like a good moan!)

 

[Vitesse]

I can't blame a fellow spark for this but some of the previous work was dubious to say the least.

I got a call to a pub that had previous evidence of a rat invasion and they had chewed through the cable supplying the outside lights under the floor space in the first floor.

Yesterday whenever the hand dryer was switch on it tripped the RCD. IR test showed a short on all three wires. Followed it back from the gents roof space above to discover this. Ehmmm nice wires says Mr Rat! My understanding is that vermin will chew through anything that blocks their path, rather than the thought that they are simply sharpening their teeth. The hand dryer was spurred off the lighting circuit for the toilets, neither the cable or the breaker were spec'd high enough to handle the power of the dryer anyway.

At first it wasn't really obvious that the chewing had happened until you pulled the wires back through the hole in the wall. What gave it away was the black marks all over the cable that something had been passing back and forth. The hole leads back under the living room floor for the accommodation above the pub. So I by passed the dodgy part of the cable back to the CU with a temporary cable, until the laminated floor can be lifted next week to see what lies beneath? My Jack Russell is coming with me next week just in case!!

 

[LeeH]

Came across this today.

 

[Marvo]

^^interesting corrosion issue. That motor might be running on the warm side with that back fan cover missing.

 

[Darkwood]

Ill pop this in here because it is a balls up - lucky to walk away alive, that guy gets it full in face.


[video]http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2ad_1450552021[/video]

 

[telectrix]

Ill pop this in here because it is a balls up - lucky to walk away alive, that guy gets it full in face.


[video]http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2ad_1450552021[/video]

whoever would have expected something "live" around the house of lords?

 

[Darkwood]

I believe both treated for burns but watching it and no PPE when they went through it they lucky to be alive

 

[Hellmooth]

Seen it earlier on FB, was a cracker, the guy doesn't know what to do with himself lol, trying to walk through fences hehe,,lucky man though!

 

[Darkwood]

See his mates pants! ...nearly blown of his legs ... just in tatters :sick:

 

[tomspark93]

I'm still trying to figure out which picture I find more disturbing. The bleak attempt to strengthen the joist or the fact that he drilled through the joist in the first place. The house was apparently rewired by the homeowners mate 6 months ago. The 16th edition board, lack of paperwork and generally rough wiring just makes me laugh. How do these guys get away with it?!

 

[hightower]

I'm still trying to figure out which picture I find more disturbing. The bleak attempt to strengthen the joist or the fact that he drilled through the joist in the first place. View attachment 31068View attachment 31067 The house was apparently rewired buy the homeowners mate 6 months ago. The 16th edition board, lack of paperwork and generally rough wiring just makes me laugh. How do these guys get away with it?!

Fuarking hell

 

[Dave OCD]

Fuarking hell

X2 !! :lol:

 

[Barrie Patrick]

As the sign above my desk once said "Common Sense! It isn't Common"

 

[meridian911]

They get away with it because no one gives a f**k as long as it's cheap.

 

[Dave OCD]

It beggars belief that anyone could be quite so idiotic !! Just 75mm or so either way and it would have been absolutely fine, scary !:rolleyes2:

 

[leo79]

Made me smile, obviously done by a proper spark, at least that's what the customer said.

 

[Deleted member 72666]

Made me smile, obviously done by a proper spark, at least that's what the customer said.

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I don't think I would have been smiling as that is a potential death trap!

 

[overskilled]

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