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

[freddo]

Dodgyness of my own doing, had a bit if a mishap with a wheely bin. Van is just over 2 months old...

 

[Lister1987]

Dodgyness of my own doing, had a bit if a mishap with a wheely bin. Van is just over 2 months old...
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Dent puller not get it out?

 

[ipf]

Dent puller not get it out?

I've only used my dent puller when I had severe tooth ache

 

[Lister1987]

I've only used my denture puller when I had severe tooth ache

Fixed that for you ?

 

[freddo]

125A cartridge fuses, perfect for protecting 6.0mm2 SWA.

 

[westward10]

That looks bigger than 6mm?

 

[freddo]

The isolator is very compact, it said 4x6mm on the sheath and the gland is 20mm.

 

[James]

The isolator is very compact, it said 4x6mm on the sheath and the gland is 20mm.

I agreed with westward as I looked at it but was thinking that was a 25mm gland

 

[freddo]

The switchfuse is really small, a horrible design. Pathetic compared to the MEM switchfuses it was sat beside. Thankfully I just had to disconnect the outgoing cable as the machine was being removed for sale as the site is no longer in business. 6A fuses would have been fine for the machine that was located about 40M away.

 

[richy3333]

Yesterdays work of art! Only the yellow tape held the neutral into the chock-block!

 

[richy3333]

Then found this very early use of metal fixings for T&E and this gubbins above the bathroom light.

 

[littlespark]

Then found this very early use of metal fixings for T&E and this gubbins above the bathroom light.View attachment 53809

Is that staple on the neutral or live?

The other picture.... at least he taped up the black to show its a switchwire

 

[Baddegg]

Quick job changing some socket fronts, that’s feeding a triple socket...

 

[LewisM]

Absolute mess of a oven/hob install

 

[DT1991]

Spot the issue with the fuse?
Thanks mr plumber for covering access to gas solenoid connections!

 

[telectrix]

kevin kitchen and to$$er tiler strike again. called out to several sockets not working.kitchen sockets hanging off wall, tiling cut that badly they'd either sink in or not go in at all. found a N out of terminal , so was about to reconnect when customer tells me about kevin drilling and screwing through a cable above the same socket. he left the screw in with sellotape over the head, told customer, "that's safe now.".

so... cupboard off wall.digs out to damaged section, lickily in capping and some slack above ceiling, so a in-line joint of the 3 conductors could be made and heatshrinked.joint is behind cupboard, so no redec needed. then onto the 2 sockets, cooker switch and FCU.
first one , tile is 1" intrudung into socket so had to be stitch drilled and the excess removed. next one had nothing to sit on, so some crafty spacing with some broken tile pieces bonded in with yooza boxes temoprarily fitted to hold adhesive. same with cooker switch and FCU. then oven not working. this was a previous DIY job... cooker outlet swapped for a double socket. hob plugged in one side, cheap and nasty extension lead for oven ( which had been relocated ). replaced extension lead with some quality 1.5mm cable and socket. problem was cooker switch not making a decent connection due to dust from tiling. flicked off and on a few times and seems OK now, but advised customer might need replacing. back tomoorow when adhesive has cure to finalise fixing. time spent on site 5 hours.

 

[freddo]

My god I can tile better than that!

 

[telectrix]

My god I can tile better than that!

stevie wonder could as well.

 

[Old Tiler 43192]

kevin kitchen and to$$er tiler strike again. called out to several sockets not working.kitchen sockets hanging off wall, tiling cut that badly they'd either sink in or not go in at all. found a N out of terminal , so was about to reconnect when customer tells me about kevin drilling and screwing through a cable above the same socket. he left the screw in with sellotape over the head, told customer, "that's safe now.".

so... cupboard off wall.digs out to damaged section, lickily in capping and some slack above ceiling, so a in-line joint of the 3 conductors could be made and heatshrinked.joint is behind cupboard, so no redec needed. then onto the 2 sockets, cooker switch and FCU.
first one , tile is 1" intrudung into socket so had to be stitch drilled and the excess removed. next one had nothing to sit on, so some crafty spacing with some broken tile pieces bonded in with yooza boxes temoprarily fitted to hold adhesive. same with cooker switch and FCU. then oven not working. this was a previous DIY job... cooker outlet swapped for a double socket. hob plugged in one side, cheap and nasty extension lead for oven ( which had been relocated ). replaced extension lead with some quality 1.5mm cable and socket. problem was cooker switch not making a decent connection due to dust from tiling. flicked off and on a few times and seems OK now, but advised customer might need replacing. back tomoorow when adhesive has cure to finalise fixing. time spent on site 5 hours.

That's disgraceful DIY bodge. I hope the customer hasn't paid the tiler. Are they actually happy to accept such crap?

 

[telectrix]

i think the ladycustomer is a bit naive. most customers would refuse to pay for such an abortion. the photos don't really show how bad it is. i could only fill in the spaces with grout. still don't look good, but at least it's safe.

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

That's some of the worst tiling I've ever seen. Kitchens seem to attract the worst tradesmen.

 

[DT1991]

Contactors inside trunking?
Side of DB butchered?

 

[freddo]

At least all the earths have labels!

 

[ipf]

We'll just put some outside floodlights up on conduit for the training area...….said the so called qualified spark.

 

[Baddegg]

Oh no!.....no no no no no....?

 

[Pete999]

Oh no!.....no no no no no....?

Looks like it Mate

 

[DPG]

That's unreal. Loving the toggle clamp holding the conduit. Very creative.

 

[Baddegg]

That's unreal. Loving the toggle clamp holding the conduit. Very creative.

Ha ha got engineer written all over him that fella.....maybe just skip electrical engineering though......

 

[SparkySy]

Man my eyes are offended by that! What a mess!

 

[static zap]

(Toggle clamp , un-expected).
How many steps to heaven ?
(One less -already outside !)

 

[Strima]

At a pub I'm currently inspecting...

 

[Tuxornot]

At a pub I'm currently inspecting...

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That's awful, should have at least used sockets with black inserts to match the window ledges, unusually neat cream plumbing though

 

[FatAlan]

Is it spurred off a lighting circuit?

 

[GBDamo]

At a pub I'm currently inspecting...

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It took me a minute to see that, it's epic.

 

[FatAlan]

Thought for a minute that the soil pipe was being used as some sort of giant conduit.

 

[Dustydazzler]

That has to be a wind up ???

 

[Baddegg]

It took me a minute to see that, it's epic.

Same here ? but when you see OMFG ?

 

[Strima]

Is it spurred off a lighting circuit?

Nope. Straight off an RFC.
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At least they’d sort of attempted to disconnect it...

 

[littlespark]

For outside catering? Maybe there had been a shelter above it at one time.

Last pub I checked had a metal socket outside, but it was screwed to a fence post with a metal biscuit tin around it as “protection from the elements”
Biscuit tin wasn’t even earthed!

 

[Strima]

For outside catering? Maybe there had been a shelter above it at one time

No evidence of an external structure, there's an open bar in the garden but that just has an Amdt 3 board in it full of water and rust...