Electrician Terminology - Spoken Around the Building Site?

[LukeScotty]

Hiya, Just wondering if people could list all the electrician talk they hear around the building site, as I've just started out, Finding it a bit fustrating when I don't know what their talking about. At the moment its a foreign language to me.

So any help would be apprectiated

regards Luke



Chopping a Box - Using a Hammer and chisel to create a sqaure hole or box for a backbox to fit init

 

[LukeScotty]

one of the first posts I did last year..... bump

 

[rumrunner]

one of the first posts i did last year..... Bump

raggle

 

[greekislandlover]

Have to admit that when we do a test I've got a tendency to shout jargon around to sound like we know what we are doing!

 

[ian.settle1]

Have to admit that when we do a test I've got a tendency to shout jargon around to sound like we know what we are doing!

Bull**** baffles brains you mean

 

[Bane]

"BANE! What the fu*k have you done here?"

Always seems to be popular on building sites I've worked on.

(Still not sussed out what it means)

 

[Carter]

"PIPE STRANGLER" One proclaiming competence in the art of conduit bending/threading stood by a pile of discarded and creatively mangled tube.

"PIPE GOD" One who thinks nothing of delegating the cutting of thirty X 25mm running couplings to the youngest & scrawniest member of the installation team.

 

[4x4 mark]

metal muncher- anybody who 1st fixes on larger sites usually involves tray or ladder rack, trunking and or metal conduit.
cable puller- usually part of of a large gang of monkeys who pull larger armoured cables for 100s of meters
foreman- sits in office dishing out jobs to supervisors whilst drinking coffee
supervisor- walks round site dishing out jobs to golden balls whilst drinking coffee
golden balls- supervisors butt monkey
apprentice- tea boy, stand in butt monkey
electrician- gets all the ****e jobs that golden balls doesn't want
mate- gets all the ****e jobs that electrician can get away with passing the buck on
storeman- tight git who thinks all material is his own and will either give you nothing or the wrong stuff, unless golden balls or above asks for gear for a job at home.
estimator- clueless idiot who works in the office and has never held a pair of side cutters let alone used them.

hope this short list helps and i'm sure other members will add to it

 

[KFORDHUNTER]

I have a few,

1: Thick ******* - plasterer
2: Thick ******* - bricklayer
3: Thick ******* - plumber
4: Thick ******* - painter

Shall i go on

 

[Jazz Capone]

Guitar String = When a cable has not been dressed or clipped properly and is pulled to tight

 

[Spudmiester]

Guitar String = When a cable has not been dressed or clipped properly and is pulled to tight

We call them 'washing Lines'. Usually installed by BT. clip,100m wire,another clip, 100m wire and so on.........

 

[Carter]

You've just reminded me Spud.

"STRING-PULLERS"

BT 'engineers' and alarm 'installers'

 

[LukeScotty]

bender = conduit bender

 

[jonboy1]

Birds nest or tray of spaghetti = what the data and BT boys leave above ceiling tiles.

 

[spud4dd]

Bango String, cable b*ll*ck*r

 

[tony.towa]

Rat's nest - A mass of unidentified cables which seem to go in all possible directions (often found in old three phase rewireable distribution boards or lofts where "Barry the Bodger" has been at work.

Cable Monkey - Lad who pulls in the long runs of large cables.

Snipes - Long nose pliers

Butterfly clamp or cord clamp - Henley gland

 

[spark-doctor]

trainee Picaso = painter/decorator

 

[Gazza D]

Spatterer = Eastern European painter!!

 

[Dan]

Bump

 

[telectrix]

wood butcher...joiner

wet-pants.... plumber

muck spreader........ plasterer

cable spiker......... drylining fixer

hot pants...... female spark