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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:

 

[Dustydazzler]

It’s fairly easy to burn pvc cable if you pull another cable against it Too hard...
I wouldnt be happy with the burned Cable...but unfortunately It’s fairly typical to see This sort of thing

 

[DPG]

It’s fairly easy to burn pvc cable if you pull another cable against it Too hard...
I wouldnt be happy with the burned Cable...but unfortunately It’s fairly typical to see This sort of thing

Anyone who treats coax cable like that would not be fitting an aerial for me. I hate to think what his terminations are like.

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

Had to cut it either side of the joist, MF Wagobox it and put a new piece in. Pulled his cable right out the length aswell, can’t have been that hard to blast some more 10mm holes through the joists for his cable

 

[SparkySy]

Can you pop round I have a problem, thought my Plumber could sort it out but he couldn't so advised ring an electrician!

Mmm that's gone bang more than once then!!

 

[Baddegg]

Can’t have been a real plumber.....a real plumber would’ve got that to work ?

 

[SparkySy]

I was using the term loosely
It was a faulty pump apparently, that he tried to fix 3 times before giving up and getting a new one! Bet he had some Brown trousers after that!!

 

[Baddegg]

Nice to know there’s still some craftsman out there......

 

[Jim_e_Jib]

Pulled his cable right out the length aswell, can’t have been that hard to blast some more 10mm holes through the joists for his cable

The woodworm have even made a start for him!

 

[Baddegg]

There’s future proofing and there’s FUTURE proofing.....

Not dodgy I know but I’m sure the spark wasn’t really considering smart switches!

 

[SparkySy]

You could almost guarantee if you needed that extra core it wouldn't of been there!

 

[DPG]

You could almost guarantee if you needed that extra core it wouldn't of been there!

I was going to like your post, but you put 'of' instead of 'have', so I didn't

 

[pirate]

I would've liked it too if it had "wouldnt've"...it shouldnt've had "of"

 

[LewisM]

So this light was held up by a specially engineered pencil for the task.

 

[R-fur]

Should have used a Biro, pencils are conductive and flammable.

 

[dodger421]

Less dodgy, more just stupidity courtesy of one of our “multi-skilled” technicians. Bear in mind the multi-skilled guy has an electrician to guide them on their shift and they supposedly checked all this together!

Yesterday a cooling fan wasn’t working, they went to it and reported back at shift change when we started that the contactor needed replacing because it wasn’t coming in. We asked if they checked the voltage at the coil “yeah, 230” was the answer.

I suspect not somehow, but at least we know why it isn’t coming in...

The machine wasn’t needed until this afternoon so we left it for them to wire up the coil this morning, and hopefully learn something in the process.

They wired the coil into a nearby transformer in the machine. We got called back just after shift change for cooling fan not working and “smell of burning”. That’ll be 230 through the 110 coil then.

In fairness the almost identical machine next to it was wired the same way, just went into a 230v coil.

 

[freddo]

Reminds me of the time I got called out because the new contactor coils weren't lasting long on a roof fan. I couldn't get the on-site maintenance bloke to understand that 240V coils don't work well when fed with 415V. 'But there's a neutral there!' he kept saying. That blue wire was of course L3.... Amazingly all 3? he tried lasted over a work day under those conditions.

 

[James]

Back when I was a rookie, I was given a 230/400v motor to fit on a machine.
It lasted almost 2 weeks before it gave up.
I had wired it in delta because my total lack of understanding led me to believe that star was only for starting a motor.

Boss was not happy but I learned a valuable lesson!

 

[freddo]

Got called out because customer couldn't reset RCD after attempting to put up shelving.

6 months earlier I was called to the same fault at the same house.

 

[Baddegg]

Got called out because customer couldn't reset RCD after attempting to put up shelving.
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6 months earlier I was called to the same fault at the same house.
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Does he own a machine gun! it looks like the walls in an old black n white gangster film ?

 

[James]

Got called out because customer couldn't reset RCD after attempting to put up shelving.
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6 months earlier I was called to the same fault at the same house.
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Scatter bombs approach,
Drill enough holes and your bound to get one eventually.
Maybe the home owner just liked your smile?

 

[littlespark]

Looks like my wall after taking the dart board down

 

[DPG]

Surprised it doesn't say 'The A Team'

 

[Conteh]

Boooom! Found this Friday.

 

[pc1966]

Boooom! Found this Friday.

I really hope that resulted in a MCB tripping, and was not an in-use circuit!!!

 

[James]

Boooom! Found this Friday.

They forgot the grommet too!

 

[Conteh]

Oh got the call, my Mcb keeps blowing. Went to his house. Asked have you made any alterations to your house lately, like pictures on the wall, or things screwed to the wall. He informed me a electrician changed the sockets in his extention. I have no idea how he left without noticing. Lol
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They forgot the grommet too!

And single sleeved the earth's lol

 

[Baddegg]

Oh got the call, my Mcb keeps blowing. Went to his house. Asked have you made any alterations to your house lately, like pictures on the wall, or things screwed to the wall. He informed me a electrician changed the sockets in his extention. I have no idea how he left without noticing. Lol

For electrician read embarrassed homeowner in trouble with his mrs! ?

 

[richy3333]

So this light was held up by a specially engineered pencil for the task.
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That’s not Standens Barn is it Westy?

 

[Let me think]

Boooom! Found this Friday.

Give credit where credit is due, they've done their best to not to mix 'old' and 'new' colours in the same terminal
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Got called out because customer couldn't reset RCD after attempting to put up shelving.

6 months earlier I was called to the same fault at the same house.

Would love to see a follow up photo once shelving is done....could be a work of art...

 

[telectrix]

Boooom! Found this Friday.

OOPs!

 

[ipf]

Poor lad's blaming himself for putting a picture pin in the middle of the wall.

 

[ChipFanDave]

Ah the old diagonal safe zones !

 

[Dustydazzler]

Ah the old diagonal safe zones !

It gets people every time...

 

[Baddegg]

It gets people every time...

No pics but my favourite ever diagonal run was up a flight of stairs, not close to the strings just straight switch to switch....fella put 5 pics up for his Mrs and hit it every single time ?

 

[littlespark]

Mine was an old cooker hood I took down. Supply had been taken diagonally from a socket above worktop.
Whoever put the old hood up managed to drill through the cpc of a t&e... the rawl plug acted as an isolator between the L and N which hadn’t been cut.
Hood worked, just never been earthed.

 

[telectrix]

Mine was an old cooker hood I took down. Supply had been taken diagonally from a socket above worktop.
Whoever put the old hood up managed to drill through the cpc of a t&e... the rawl plug acted as an isolator between the L and N which hadn’t been cut.
Hood worked, just never been earthed.
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classic. i had one the other week, rawlplug and screw through L courtesy of kevin. screw was live, so he stuck some tape over the screw head and told customer it;s safe now. FFS.

 

[Dustydazzler]

It’s amazing the amount of times someone manages to put a screw / nail through a buried cable breaking the cpc and only just scraping the live and neutral Cores...
Failing to trip the mcb & leaving the cable live but without an earth beyond the hole.
perhaps buried cables should be of screened type so the cpc is fully around the inner cores..

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[littlespark]

Mine was an old cooker hood I took down. Supply had been taken diagonally from a socket above worktop.
Whoever put the old hood up managed to drill through the cpc of a t&e... the rawl plug acted as an isolator between the L and N which hadn’t been cut.
Hood worked, just never been earthed.
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I thought I’d uploaded this pic before.....

From this....

Someone was a lucky so and so - in - UK Electrical Forum

, Someone was a lucky so and so, UK Electrical Forum, ElectriciansForums.net Est.2006 | Free Electrical Advice Forum and page_number.

www.electriciansforums.net

Source URL: Someone was a lucky so and so - https://www.electriciansforums.net/threads/someone-was-a-lucky-so-and-so.174087/

 

[ipf]

It’s amazing the amount of times someone manages to put a screw / nail through a buried cable breaking the cpc and only just scraping the live and neutral Cores...

True. The above one is the same. But, in this case, with such a small pin shorting L and N....and the earth having no insulation, it tends to take the majority of the blast.

It was a right job double heat shrinking with the lack of length available.
Sand and cement wall

 

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@ipf mice look like they are fiercely strong in your area