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:

 

[Dave OCD]

Ingenious really screwing the pullswitch to the top of the canopy in reverse as such and presumably with a small hole for the string to drop down through, also very dodgy though.

 

[littlespark]

Impressed that you re-terminated that into a new pullcord switch!
I confess that I do struggle unless I have a BIG back-box...had to do it differently on my shower...
No pics, so don't worry!

It is a deep pattress, the photo doesn't quite show it. I despise fitting pullcords. Prefer a nice big 45A dp switch hidden in a cupboard somewhere close by, but beggers cant be choosers.

This shower was another case of man-of-the-house-tries-to-do-a-bit and the wife ends up calling the professional.
Recent job, I was asked to swap a ceiling pendant to a new fitting in someones kitchen. The wife said the hubby had already tried and now it was tripping the breaker.
Got there to see 2 blacks in L & N, and 2 earth wires. (60's semi wiring in conduit)
Didn't take me long to realise one of the earths was a plain yellow, not yellow/green, and the 2 blacks should be both neutral.
The hubby works away and the house has had no downstairs lights since last November.

 

[littlespark]

View attachment 41568 View attachment 41568 Don't do a lot of domestic but found this today on a periodic. .

So bad you posted the picture twice

 

[pirate]

Westy, thanks for the explanation...I get it now. How, err, mm...ingenious to fit a pullcord that way.
Littlespark, have to agree re big 45A DP in a cupboard...much easier, to fit and maintain.

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

 

[littlespark]

Seen this vid before on this forum.
Wrong in so many ways.

 

[stuarth]

Has April fools day arrived early

 

[Wilko]

Has April fools day arrived early

If only ...

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Has April fools day arrived early

I know, shocking!! I was thinking this has goto be a wind up, surely.

 

[Dillb]

I know, shocking!! I was thinking this has goto be a wind up, surely.

But it’s OK because he did say he was happy to sort it out if you got into any difficulty.

 

[pirate]

That is the ugliest thing I have ever seen...and I have to look in the mirror each morning!

 

[NDG Elecs]

How to run a sub main in trunking...no fire clips in what is going to be a hairdressers...and the SWA inside it runs approx 6m across. Quality shiyht!

 

[littlespark]

Sticky backed trunking became unsticky?
For the price some hairdressers charge, they could have stretched the budget to a few rawlplugs and screws

 

[pirate]

Timely post, thanks...I think I left my straighteners on!

 

[NDG Elecs]

Sticky backed trunking became unsticky?
For the price some hairdressers charge, they could have stretched the budget to a few rawlplugs and screws

It's hard to tell from the photo but the run is not at all straight. It's not so much a case of it becoming unstuck as it had never been stuck down in the first place. The SWA would have looked much better neatly clipped instead. I have spent approx 30hrs fixing various aspects of the carppy work done there so far, and could easily spend another 30hrs.

Oh, and it's not the hairdressers at fault here, it's a combination of the landlord and the people renting out the adjacent unit which this SWA supplies...

 

[pirate]

Serious question NDG...would that cable run over exit route and require steel clips/wall-dogs rather than rawlplugs?

 

[NDG Elecs]

Serious question NDG...would that cable run over exit route and require steel clips/wall-dogs rather than rawlplugs?

Yeah it does pirate hence why I mentioned fire clips. And it's across the only escape route..

 

[pirate]

Hmmm...don't people THINK?
How difficult is it to do a job to be proud of?
A tiny bit more effort than a bodge.
and lives at risk...

 

[NDG Elecs]

Serious question NDG...would that cable run over exit route and require steel clips/wall-dogs rather than rawlplugs?

Yeah it does pirate hence why I mentioned fire clips. And it's across the only escape route..

Hmmm...don't people THINK?
How difficult is it to do a job to be proud of?
A tiny bit more effort than a bodge.
and lives at risk...

Yeah you know that, and I know that mate, but the idiot that did this place obviously didn't care. The list of remedial works needed for what is a brand new install was astonishing. There are still aspects that need attention.
The landlord of this place and the other unit upstairs tried persuading me to sign them both off. I only swear in front of customers once in a blue moon, but on this occasion I swore a lot! It was one of those where you as you are working away making safe various bits of the work, you are tutting away to yourself thinking I want to speak to the idiot that did this to get an explanation!!

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

When I stayed in poland, this was in the bathroom.

 

[Wilko]

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When I stayed in poland, this was in the bathroom.

Good to see the outlet with its little rain hat on

 

[Rpa07]

I take it that the toilet roll was for a toilet out of shot and not intending for peeps to carp in the bath!

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

I take it that the toilet roll was for a toilet out of shot and not intending for peeps to carp in the bath!

Yeah it there to clean up your ---- after you've had a belt from that socket

 

[pirate]

Jeez! That's awful...a nylon scrubber thingy and floral tiles in the border???
It would make you want to stick your fingers in that socket!

(Socket??? Was that actually a socket???...Jeez!!!)

BTW, to the left of the boiler...what's behind that access panel?

 

[Rpa07]

@SWD will be on in a moment shouting that the decor is the latest thing - sticking up for his own!

Jeez! That's awful...a nylon scrubber thingy and floral tiles in the border???
It would make you want to stick your fingers in that socket!

 

[pirate]

He's in trouble if he does!

 

[Strima]

BTW, to the left of the boiler...what's behind that access panel?

The consumer unit...

 

[pirate]

Excellent! IP2? do you think? Still, it's handy to check things out in the bath!
(Sorry...that came out badly...)

 

[NDG Elecs]

This bathroom is more scary.......

 

[Dillb]

This bathroom is more scary.......

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You should view the website, there’s some real spooky pictures on there

 

[pirate]

"Use my sponge.."
" I will watch you"

what?

think I'm gonna steal your sponge?


and I'm lactose intolerant!

(Not really, just said that for effect!)

Bit like my mania for taking a pic of myself with every kettle I see...
Doctor says I have selfie-steam issues...

Like when I threw a can of Bostik in the bin, die to my gluetin intolerance...

Time for me to head to my hammock...Jabber says I have been overdoing it recently...whatever "it" is...but I always trust his judgement...
he's a parrot, after all

 

[Squid]

@SWD will be on in a moment shouting that the decor is the latest thing - sticking up for his own!

Racist comment, should be reported............

 

[Rpa07]

. . . . but probably won’t be!

 

[Wilko]

I'm going to need further instructions or a diagram please?

 

[leep82]

Been to a local bathroom showroom today that is less than 3 months old. I was asked to install several mirror lights into the different bays that they have assembled. Was greeted with this as soon as i lifted a ceiling tile. 600 x 600 lay in grid LED flat panels and this arrangement was above everyone. Asked the manager if they had been provided wih an electrical certificate when it was installed “ erm erm i think its all done in house “, whatever that means. Ended up walking away from the job not as a result of this picture but every bay that they wanted a mirror fixing, tiles were loose and ready to fall off. Told him i didnt want any resulting damage or injurys on my head as a result of any tiles falling. Quite literally thrown up!

 

[Strima]

I can't quite make it out but is that four conductors into a three way Wago?

Three way Wago? That sounds wrong...

 

[telectrix]

I can't quite make it out but is that four conductors into a three way Wago?

Three way Wago? That sounds wrong...

a bit like trying to get 2 pints of ale into a 1 pint glass. ........ sssssimplesss. fill to 1 pint, drink, then add 2nd pint. pity wagos can't do that.

 

[leep82]

Yeah no

I can't quite make it out but is that four conductors into a three way Wago?

Three way Wago? That sounds wrong...

Yes. Not all were like this though, as this one was where an existing mirror light had already been fed from. Although as mentioned every LED flat panel had the wagos above them minus any enclosure.

 

[leep82]

And CPC’s twisted together and sleeved!

 

[freddo]

Showrooms are often terrible, was called out one day to lights tripping MCB, one of the staff had removed a mirror light and had made the wiring safe by taping the L and N wires together.

This was how they wired a load of Click plugs.