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:

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

a better view of the consumer unti when the cupbaord was removed, above it a large cavity leading into the bedroom floor space, and this from a kitchen

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

garage door controller

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

an unusual way of securing cables behind plaster ?

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

The two deep fat fryers ? in a domestic kitchen, add in the 3 electric showers 2 upstairs, one in the shower block of the pool, the water heater in the pool, the fans and pumps in the pool and a full electric cooker and you have a little more than 60 amps ?



oh and I forgot the bar outside as well
200 amps at a rough guess

 

[DPG]

Why on earth the 2 big deep fat fryers in a domestic? Daz

 

[Pete999]

Why on earth the 2 big deep fat fryers in a domestic? Daz

Large family maybe

 

[Kamikaze]

Strictly speaking I’ve screwed up there. Had I fitted the switch sideways, it would have switched the lights on when the door is opened and back off again when the door is closed.

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

Large family maybe

they liked entertaining
and were all fat slobs

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

I cant say too much about this one as its liable to go to court
plumber had fitted another C/U from the existing, but had removed the meter cabinet to drop the cable to the shower into the cavity ?? then forgotten to reconnect the main earth
the whole thing was nasty
no CPC on the lighting circuit ( pre66) and metal fittings and switchplates everywhere
grommets absent on tails


DNOs earth pulled away from cable ??



lovely bit of termination aint it !!!

cold water feed to shower, missing cover and water flowed down into the terminals ?
oh and the shower switch was inside the shower as well

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

nicely placed cooker switch on another job, installed by a kitchen and bathroom company ( muppets)

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

another DIY job
the idiot had knocked down a wall, so he shoved the lightswitch up above the ceiling ???

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

Heres a nice one
doing a favour for the family, I went to look at a house a young couple had bought, when I opened up the C/U all of these beads fell out, the main tails inside the C/U were melted due to polymer migration and high temperature
the origional cables had been dropped down in the wall cavity
as well as this metal light switches and fittings and no CPC and some amazine other bodges by barry the big mouthed know it all builder


where the new cables passed through a wall, the muppet had covered the big hole with a tin of PU foam and filler ?




There was an SWA in the garage, but no evidence of it inside the house, or a termination into PVC, until I lifted the floor and found this wonderful job


the C/U when removed showing damage to bus bars insulation



the C/u in the garage with the SWA nicely terminated
why me ??

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

Went to a commercial job, large equestrian building open to the public, owner decides on change of use, and adds a new door, now the sensible thing would have been to consult me first to relocate the fire alarm cables, no he cut them and joints them like this, and straight up baulked when I quoted 300 pounds to remove the entire section of cables and run new sections correctly
he also wanted me to install caravan supplies onto a wonky old fence ??and a few other jobs
I was polite but said dont waste my time

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

same job, this was the 3 phase board ??all working in public area, and even worse in an adjoining buidling where the main incoming supply was terminated, the roof was missing and water was running down onto the DNOs equipment

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

Lovely eh ?
supply cable to an outbuilding
in this case the client had called a builder in to convert the garage into a bathroom and utility room
his muppets fitted a new C/U even wrote out a ticket, but failed to test or inspect the existing circuits
then the problems started trippingout when it rained
and of course our team could not be located
I had to get the DNO to supply a new earth to the property as the muppets had failed to test it ( made the readings up)
replace the external supply, several lights and sort out the new bathroom

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

same job, this was how the stupid gombeens had supplied an earth to the C/U
the DNO engineer was not impressed and took their details
I gather they are no longer carrying out electrical work

 

[DPG]

Lovely word - Gombeen ! Bet Mr. O Connell wasn't happy eh Daz

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

one of my nicer jobs, was when I visited a regular customer to look at a new house for them
I dragged all of my test gear in, but did not even open the box up
like a museum it was

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

Lovely word - Gombeen ! Bet Mr. O Connell wasn't happy eh Daz

ha ha
no
oddly enough he told me that as he was in possesion of an electrical certificate then it was safe
I pointed out that a car with a bent MOT was not safe ?
in fact I nearly told him to go and boil his head, I dont need that hassle at my age
the DNO engineer put him right
by the way Gombeen comes from an old poem the Gombeen man
I relishy using the english language to its full potential, so much better than swearing, recently I suggested a rather shoddy tradesmen should avail himself of a frontal lobotomy !!

 

[StevieSparky]

Hi, Stevie here. I posted a new thread as I didn't see this - here's the consumer unit(s) I bumped into for a 1 bedroom flat which you can access by simply climbing up through a 700mm square hatch and crawling along the top of the 600mm suspended ceiling for about 10ft

 

[Gardner]

Errr, youd think at least some effort to pull it through inside the mast.

 

[KeithC]

Must have run out of cable ties.

 

[Paul.M]

the light fitting in the shower block was a work of true genius,
View attachment 32278

That has tickled me :rofl:

 

[starlored]

This is what we discovered after an annual test on a factory, this was protecting a 32 amp circuit.

Spot the mistake.

Switch was placed to close to a cupboard and had to be moved?

Not exactly dodgy Electrical work but back in 1995/96 I was doing rewires for the council and we would regularly come across 7029 cable and in one case we had to rewire an old cottage that was still using 15amp sockets, complete with the socket spur of of the cooker switch.

 

[Dipzy]

I like pic 3, novel use of the rcbo flying lead... lol

 

[StevieSparky]

Concrete ceiling in the bathroom - I'd put in a 2 inch drop down ceiling to run a new lighting cable but each to their own

 

[Genlight]

An economical way to feed a loft extension and an interesting IP rating failure.

 

[DPG]

Nice one Bett there were a lot of light in the loft! Surprised they bothered with an RCD to be honest.

 

[bigspark17]

Intresting way for the upstairs tennant to reset rcd, nice pully system.

 

[bigspark17]

Pic below

 

[DPG]

That is brilliant! The manufacturers should do a remote lever like that Daz

 

[bigspark17]

 

[Macelec]

Called out to help wire up a bathroom found the fuse board inside the bathe room cupboard and round to the side sod wiring in to that

 

[NDG Elecs]

OK OK we should never ever ever ever mess with DNOs precious seals, but ffs don't do this!

 

[NDG Elecs]

OK OK we should never ever ever ever mess with DNOs precious seals, but ffs don't do this!

View attachment 32480

This was found as is, not even bodged with tape, at a height of seven foot and easily touchable.

 

[Skelly]

Some people never cease to amaze me with what they think is safe work, I have got to start taking some pic's of the stuff I see at some of the Blue Chip companies we do work for, Done by there "Multi-skilled Engineers".

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Got a call out because a shower was not working & found all of this.

 

[DPG]

Nice. Is that 2.5mm? Daz

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Nice. Is that 2.5mm? Daz

Yes it is, the customer said he installed it himself 10 years ago.

 

[DPG]

Loving the 3 little holes he's drilled for the individual cores. And the earthing would obviously pass a bond test Daz