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

[Mike Johnson]

Took the trouble to cut the tiles to get the pipe in! would have been easy enough to box in the pipes instead, reverse the flow and move the thermostatic valve to the other end, towel rails are not bothered by the flow direction.

 

[timhoward]

Today's EICR. I was looking for the breaker that supplied the 2nd consumer unit. I couldn't find it.
Then I saw this...ah....right...

Supplying this:

100A supplier fuse, and used to have 25 sq mm tails before 2 cores didn't fit.
16mm T+E to next board. 85A CCC. PME supply. etc.

As far as I could tell the reason it was done is that the top Legrand board is almost totally inaccessible behind a garage door rail (I could only just get the cover off), and the tails entered from the cavity at the rear. The new extension would have required RCD protection for lighting. Most frustratingly the problem that someone didn't feel like the pain of changing the CU has only led to it being more urgent that someone changes the CU.

Somewhat ironically a further fault is that the Proteus RCD didn't trip at x1, x5 or when test button pressed. So all that effort to hack RCD protection in amounted to nothing anyway. The white cable bottom left is a spur to the socket under the board, into which was plugged a granny EV cable.

 

[Raptor0014]

Found these today whilst on another job.

Module cover held on by a piece of tape and falls off as soon as you lift it up, nicely exposed busbar (which I covered with a blank) and mixed MCBs

Another tape extravaganza. Only if you remove this tape the cover also will just slide off completely as the screw housings are broken, probably done up with an impact driver at some point.

 

[mainline]

You can tell it's the homeowner or man down the pub by the labelling.

 

[Welchyboy1]

Few on my phone from past jobs

 

[mainline]

Few on my phone from past jobs

I like the last one reminds me of my childhood.

Was the 3rd one an immersion feed ? I did one the other day that had Wagos , neutral burnt out.

 

[Welchyboy1]

I like the last one reminds me of my childhood.

It was an EICR

I opened the intake cupboard doors and just thought……..’for f**ks sake!’

 

[Pretty Mouth]

Few on my phone from past jobs

Paper clip +gaffer tape on that floodlight?

 

[Welchyboy1]

Paper clip +gaffer tape on that floodlight?

You gotta give him top marks for creativity!

 

[telectrix]

this is one i found. missed on EICR by a competi tor. i got the remedials.

 

[Pretty Mouth]

You gotta give him top marks for creativity!

Sometimes you just gotta make it work

 

[nicebutdim]

Few on my phone from past jobs

Did the extractor clean up okay?

 

[GBDamo]

Did the extractor clean up okay?

I had one like that, only the hub had melted out the centre and you could just take the fins out.

I was asked if it can just be cleaned up..

 

[Mike Johnson]

Of course it can be cleaned up, it wont work, but it will be clean.

 

[ferg]

Went to look at an electric boiler not working.
Isolated the boiler at the rotary isolator and CU, phoned the owner and left.
Anyone with a stellar memory may recognise the CU as one I posted last year. Apparently the same guy who installed the boiler fixed all the issues I highlighted on the EICR.
Sent a cover my arse e-mail as soon as I got home with advice to get another opinion and another spark.
Funnily enough my quote to rectify all the rubbish I had previously highlighted was rejected as too expensive. Hence the sulk and leaving him to it.

 

[Baddegg]

Pesky earths…

Outside socket…

 

[mainline]

Pesky earths…
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Outside socket…

Yeah, bloody nuisance same as tapping the top and bottom lugs down and not showing the conductor it's fine, nothing's going to go wrong.

 

[Julie.]

Went to look at an electric boiler not working.
Isolated the boiler at the rotary isolator and CU, phoned the owner and left.
Anyone with a stellar memory may recognise the CU as one I posted last year. Apparently the same guy who installed the boiler fixed all the issues I highlighted on the EICR.
Sent a cover my arse e-mail as soon as I got home with advice to get another opinion and another spark.
Funnily enough my quote to rectify all the rubbish I had previously highlighted was rejected as too expensive. Hence the sulk and leaving him to it.

Yeah, why would you bother connecting the cpc on metal cladding kit, suppose that pesky extra unsheathed wire is just for cable stripping after all.

 

[Raptor0014]

Pesky earths…
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Outside socket…

Does this mean you can't use the house fabric, which is built on the earth, as the earth, hence the lead from the backbox to the socket?

Well who knew?.......

By the way that's a genuine question I once got asked by a kitchen fitter who 'knew how to do electrics'!

 

[freddo]

Went to look at an electric boiler not working.
Isolated the boiler at the rotary isolator and CU, phoned the owner and left.
Anyone with a stellar memory may recognise the CU as one I posted last year. Apparently the same guy who installed the boiler fixed all the issues I highlighted on the EICR.
Sent a cover my arse e-mail as soon as I got home with advice to get another opinion and another spark.
Funnily enough my quote to rectify all the rubbish I had previously highlighted was rejected as too expensive. Hence the sulk and leaving him to it.

Does that boiler really have the main supply terminals that close to the edge of the enclosure?! What a terrible design.