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

Post new thread

Discuss Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views! in the UK Electrical Forum area at ElectriciansForums.net

R G said:
One of the clever ones for a change
Click to expand...
Ours takes so long to do anything it never gets to that stage. I'd wired a load of klik sockets, dressed the wires back and pushed them into the conduit boxes. Gave apprentice bag of brass screws and screwdriver, but he was unable to screw the sockets back. o_O
 
freddo said:
Ours takes so long to do anything it never gets to that stage. I'd wired a load of klik sockets, dressed the wires back and pushed them into the conduit boxes. Gave apprentice bag of brass screws and screwdriver, but he was unable to screw the sockets back. o_O
Click to expand...
Did you show him which way to turn the screws.
 
An outside lighting failure: wiring very messy, self amalgamating tape on the junction kept the water in nicely, the roof never gets wet so you do not need waterproof transformers, the gutter drain is obviously the best place to store your internal two gang trailing socket; but the plug was one of the neatest fails I have seen.
View attachment 35485

View attachment 35486
 
Can't believe they didn't twist them all together with big pliers. That's a reg isn't it?
Daz
 
The 2.5 was actually out the top of the breaker, took the breaker out and trimmed them down but realistically they don't fit.
 
I think the cleaner was replaced by a squint painter many years ago from what I saw of the place.
 
Been doing some DIY at home on my week off, found 2 of these after removing a section of ceiling. Not entirely the boarders fault, the thick electrician has drilled all the holes at the bottom of all the joists...

View attachment 35560
 
freddo said:
Been doing some DIY at home on my week off, found 2 of these after removing a section of ceiling. Not entirely the boarders fault, the thick electrician has drilled all the holes at the bottom of all the joists...

View attachment 35560
Click to expand...
that's quite a novel way of cable restaint.
 
Pete999 said:
Safe Zones outside?
Click to expand...
Why not Pete outside light creates one outside? Building inspectors just looked at one I did that's going to be rendered over, never said anything.
freddo said:
Been doing some DIY at home on my week off, found 2 of these after removing a section of ceiling. Not entirely the boarders fault, the thick electrician has drilled all the holes at the bottom of all the joists...

View attachment 35560
Click to expand...
And the even thicker boarder has shoved the screw straight through it, would still have hit the cable even if it had been higher. Some of these other "trades" just go hell for leather like maniacs.
 
sparksburnout said:
Why not Pete outside light creates one outside? Building inspectors just looked at one I did that's going to be rendered over, never said anything.

And the even thicker boarder has shoved the screw straight through it, would still have hit the cable even if it had been higher. ALL of these other "trades" just go hell for leather like maniacs.
Click to expand...

corrected that for you.
 
Main Neutral Heated to the point consumer unit was smoking and the cable had been completely disconnected from the part in the terminal block.


c04bf.png

8959e.png

1510b.png
 
I wonder if it had become loose or a high resistance developed in the main switch and got worse as it will, nasty !
Those old MEM boards were usually ok.
 
New posts

Reply to Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views! in the UK Electrical Forum area at ElectriciansForums.net

OFFICIAL SPONSORS

Electrical Goods - Electrical Tools - Brand Names Electrician Courses Green Electrical Goods PCB Way Electrical Goods - Electrical Tools - Brand Names Pushfit Wire Connectors Electric Underfloor Heating Electrician Courses
These Official Forum Sponsors May Provide Discounts to Regular Forum Members - If you would like to sponsor us then CLICK HERE and post a thread with who you are, and we'll send you some stats etc

YOUR Unread Posts

Tags

advice aus cable circuit course earth electric electrical electrician hello led light lighting lights looking new please question rcd socket supply switch testing training wiring
This website was designed, optimised and is hosted by untold.media Operating under the name Untold Media since 2001.
Back
Top
AdBlock Detected

We get it, advertisements are annoying!

Sure, ad-blocking software does a great job at blocking ads, but it also blocks useful features of our website. For the best site experience please disable your AdBlocker.

I've Disabled AdBlock