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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.



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

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

Advised the customer whoever they get back to come back to refit the downlights and re energise the circuit to at the very least move this. But to redo all and swap to fire rated.

Surely this is compramising the building structure aswell, good 1/3 of the beam been taken out I think!

All photos sent to insurance company as procedure when carring out a job for them, so if they ignore my advice and god forbit they have a fire then they will have void insurance I guess.

 

[Bobster]

Ah that's one of them new fangled, Air insulated junction boxes.
Don't think they'll catch on myself

This is exactly how they do it in the states. Would be considered normal over there. Granted they used a type of screw connector block on this job I was on but bolting lugs together wouldn't be frowned at either.
See:

 

[Specialist]

That's neatly done, even used colour coordinated tape.

No problem with the lugs being bolted to get her, as you said that's the way the Americans do things.
Seen it done over here too.

 

[westward10]

Just doing a quality check for a client at a bungalow "rewired" by other parties a few months ago.

 

[DPG]

Nice!

 

[SparkyChick]

Nice shades of blue and brown, where can I get that cable?

 

[DPG]

Out of interest, why were you asked to check it?

 

[westward10]

Out of interest, why were you asked to check it?

It is for a client who provide support housing. They have just taken it on and wanted a check on the rewire. That ring final is a figure of eight with various cabling dating back to the mid sixties at its oldest point but the rest is actually okay why they left it who knows. First impressions of board I thought this will be okay.

 

[Specialist]

Just doing a quality check for a client at a bungalow "rewired" by other parties a few months ago.View attachment 36471

Aah another quality job by bodgeit & run

 

[Pete999]

Just doing a quality check for a client at a bungalow "rewired" by other parties a few months ago.View attachment 36471

Used their existing stock of cable did they?

 

[Specialist]

Looks like a lip service re - wire, just add new fittings to the old wiring.
Wonder if there's lots of connectors hidden in the wall behind the CU & the Blue, Brown and G / Y are there for show.
Wouldn't be the first time I've seen that done

 

[Pete999]

Looks like a lip service re - wire, just add new fittings to the old wiring.
Wonder if there's lots of connectors hidden in the wall behind the CU & the Blue, Brown and G / Y are there for show.
Wouldn't be the first time I've seen that done

No, nor me

 

[Specialist]

You know Pete, if we all got together & wrote a book on things we'd seen, no bugger would buy it.
They'd think we were all sniffing white powder

 

[westward10]

Looks like a lip service re - wire, just add new fittings to the old wiring.
Wonder if there's lots of connectors hidden in the wall behind the CU & the Blue, Brown and G / Y are there for show.
Wouldn't be the first time I've seen that done

With the exception of the ring final it has been rewired I really pulled it apart it is odd because it is a bungalow which are quite straightforward.

 

[Pete999]

It is for a client who provide support housing. They have just taken it on and wanted a check on the rewire. That ring final is a figure of eight with various cabling dating back to the mid sixties at its oldest point but the rest is actually okay why they left it who knows. First impressions of board I thought this will be okay. View attachment 36472

Crikey no reds or blacks in there, that socket pic has we worried 2 reds 2 black and 3 earth wires?

 

[Pete999]

Crikey no reds or blacks in there, that socket pic has we worried 2 reds 2 black and 3 earth wires?

Already written my life as a Sparky, not the finished article yet, just in the process of trying to get it published,

 

[Midwest]

Already written my life as a Sparky, not the finished article yet, just in the process of trying to get it published,

Do you reckon they might make a film about it Pete (Pete's videos)?

Only joshing with ya

 

[westward10]

Crikey no reds or blacks in there, that socket pic has we worried 2 reds 2 black and 3 earth wires?

One is on the back box.

 

[Rpa07]

You could get a little forum cooperative going to get the publishing funding - or ask JK Rowling as @Specialist says, they'll think it's fantasy @Pete999

 

[Midwest]

Do you reckon they might make a film about it Pete (Pete's videos)?

Only joshing with ya

Pete I was only joking

 

[westward10]

Be great if you get it published Pete.

 

[Toneyz]

Who do you suggest playing the parts of Pete over the years in this film ?

 

[westward10]

I have mentioned this to Pete before that Robin Askwith as the young Pete as in Confessions of an Electrician

 

[freddo]

Found while doing work in a new build house, bit close to the bath...

 

[freddo]

Whoever installed these at different heights needs a smack. In this same room the low level points were are 5 different heights.

Same property, located during periodic. Must have been like it for years, the property has been tested every five years, there were so many faults we ended up doing a full rewire.

Saw the dining room light was wired as a 2 way but couldn't find the second switch, during rewiring was able to pull the cable up out of the stud wall to find the second switch:

 

[freddo]

I did straighten it out during the rewire, I couldn't leave it as it was.

 

[Wilko]

Found while doing work in a new build house, bit close to the bath...
View attachment 36501

Classic ! Wonder what they were thinking - " I know, let's make it accessible from the bath in case a fuse blows"

 

[freddo]

There was another one in zone 2 just to the right of the bath. There were 4 in total in this bathroom, all did nothing.

 

[Biggledyboo]

Supposed to be changing some fittings and installing an outdoor lighting circuit. But I came across this gem of an install today.
32A mcb taken straight off the main switch. No rcd protection. (Rest of circuits RCD protected)
Then a what looks like a 6mm Earth taped up as BLUE (jesus christ) and terminated into load side of mcb. This loops round into the pictured connector. Which has the kitchen ringmain, 1st and 2nd floor lighting circuits coupled all in together.

I found A LOT more 'fun' things aswell.

Customer assured me he moved in a year ago and all paperwork was up to scratch. Yet to see any...

 

[Rpa07]

Then a what looks like a 6mm Earth taped up as BLUE (jesus christ) and terminated into load side of mcb. This loops round into the pictured connector. Which has the kitchen ringmain, 1st and 2nd floor lighting circuits coupled all in together.
..

So not only did they run out of brown single or twin and earth, they also ran out of brown sleeve! Still at least we knew what they meant!(even if they didn't)!!!

 

[Biggledyboo]

So not only did they run out of brown single or twin and earth, they also ran out of brown sleeve! Still at least we knew what they meant!(even if they didn't)!!!

Not just that. I don't understand the mentality. There was not a space issue. One side of the board was virtually empty. Loads of spare ways!
My first thought was it was done by a DIY or chancer, trying to solve a neutral-earth fault. But it wasn't. God knows....

 

[Biggledyboo]

Oh sorry for the double post, but this thread has reminded me of my best find this year so far. About two months ago, doing some remedial work on a HMO.

7.5Kw Shower in fed in 6mm. But nothing at the board. Switch off the the ring main. Oh and look what switched off with it.

Back to back to the shower was this little delight....

I stil have no idea how they managed to fit a 6mm and 2x 2.5mms into those terminals.

The run of 6mm must of only been a metre and a half. The students there said they'd never had any problems whatsoever.

 

[StephenRowley]

Freddo reminds me of this in one of student lets

 

[Specialist]

That's just typical of a lot of student lets. As long as they get rent, the landlords don't give a damn what's done.
Look that one even comes with free Black mould .

 

[StephenRowley]

those tiles where not exactly what one would call secured to the wall either. I believe there was three layers of tile from memory.

 

[Biggledyboo]

those tiles where not exactly what one would call secured to the wall either. I believe there was three layers of tile from memory.

Found the exact same thing when I gutted my kitchen last year. 3 layers of tile.

And the previous choices were of some real bad taste!

 

[StephenRowley]

The bathroom was a extension off a single story kitchen extension. The bathroom extension was of such poor quality the it looked older than the kitchen extension.

 

[Pete999]

Go on fill yer boots with this lot

 

[DPG]

What an irritating video. About 2 seconds to view each picture!

 

[Pete999]

What an irritating video. About 2 seconds to view each picture!

Well sorry about that Mate