Pet hates

[TaffyDuck]

Aplogies if this thread has been done before.

When you go to a job what are your pet hates that you find a previous sparks has done? :banghead:

 

[Octopus]

I really don't like the blokes who use VIR - would somebody please stop selling it!

 

[lockhes]

Twisted cables usually earths or all the earths in 1 sleeve

 

[chronyx]

lockhes - yes! Total pain in the arse.

 

[gaz2212]

whats a VIR???

 

[sparky1502]

no board layout or unidentified circuits doubled up are a total pain !!

 

[DurhamSparky]

not doing the job properly!!!

 

[DNS1]

People who cut the cable so short that it's practically impossible to replace a socket or switch...

 

[telectrix]

imbeciles that cut cpc's off=== because they don't do anything, do they.

plumbers, builders, kitchen fitters that think they can install electrical circuits.

 

[Mark_Burgess]

More a case of what they have not done, like label the distribution board.

 

[nickblake]

have a look at my post time for a giggle saves me writing again lol thats my pet hate , dont like hamsters much either

 

[TaffyDuck]

imbeciles that cut cpc's off=== because they don't do anything, do they.

I thought they were just there as a cheesewire?

 

[Knobhead]

Incorrect identification. Need I say more.

 

[telectrix]

customers who say " it's worked fine for 20 years, why can;t you get that trippy thingy working now?"

 

[Andy 7671]

Simple one for me, those that cant cut cable ties or basket flush, yeah cheers for that, slash my arm why dont you.

 

[Fin170]

-Finding Parking spaces when working in old housing areas or general urban areas with nowhere to park, I'm much happier parking my wagon at a 45° angle up a muddy bank.
-Practically new installations missing bonding, unidentified circuits, fire alarm mixed with light circuits, general bad practise....
-Loft insulation

 

[SparkyDips]

cables pulled tight/left short making wiring impossible ie.fused spur(load)side, no circuit identification on dis.boards, cross threaded plate screws, plasterers filling boxes with plaster, ceiling grid guys leaving support wires half twisted ready to poke yr eye out, basically all other trades on site and Edmundson f###### Electrical they never have anything in stock FFS, if i want to be let down i would have gone to screwfix!!!!!!!!......................ok deep breaths.

:devilish:

 

[jumpin jax]

parking your van out of the way so you are not asked to move it and half way through the day someone says"can you move your van?"

 

[Plonker 3]

PAying Elecsa so I can notify jobs only for customers to ask why does the job need registering with LABC,

 

[SparkyDips]

parking your van out of the way so you are not asked to move it and half way through the day someone says"can you move your van?"

bloody annoying!!!

 

[trev]

How about when the gaffer asks "Can you pop into xxxxx and do yyy it'll only take 10 minutes on your way home"
Yeah right

 

[ipf]

Half baked specifications done by idiot designers or architects who don't know the first thing about electrics. Then waiting ages for on site meetings or answers:banghead:

 

[Kiers1970]

When you go see Customer, give a decent price, only to be looked at lime you've mugged their grandparents.

 

[trev]

The phrase "The electrician who came out yesterday said that bonding thing wasn't needed"

 

[ipf]

Dirty would be clients giving your quote to another to see if they can do better. Total ******s.

 

[plugsandsparks]

Mine are: 1.Nowhere to get a bacon sandwich
2. Vending machines i have to pay for to get a cuppa.....FFS
3. Circuits not labelled and or labelled in-correctly making me look a total plonker when i knock off the computers.
4. Clients buying **** and saying "I've already got the parts"
5 . All plasterers
6. All plumbers.
7. Builders who damage my cables - that would be all builders
8. HMRC's online tax stuff
9. Price of diesel
10. Bank charges
11. Clients who aren't ready when its convenient for me.
12. Suppliers who cannot get me a simple friggin isolater thats holding the whole friggin job up.
13. Price of wine and smokes :-(

 

[jase]

Twisted cables usually earths or all the earths in 1 sleeve

absolutley my pet peeve too, bad enough in sockets, but when you have to pull apart a whole fuseboard just to get an R1+R2 on one RFC :banghead:

 

[Richard Burns]

absolutley my pet peeve too, bad enough in sockets, but when you have to pull apart a whole fuseboard just to get an R1+R2 on one RFC :banghead:

I also found recently I had bad continuity results and tugged the cables in all the sockets and they did not move but found after two hours that the twisted together cables were lodging on the screws, but the screws were loose, thank you someone!

 

[Paul.M]

Other sparks using my tools for the wrong purpose and/or lossing them! (yes Matthew I'm talking about you if your watching).

 

[DurhamSparky]

know it alls....!! plenty out there...!!

 

[jase]

even worse, know it f***alls, who still persist on taking on work that give the rest of us a bad name!!

 

[sparkdog]

Resident "handymen" who have been adding bodges for years and customers who don't supply any food or tea.

 

[jumpin jax]

Dirty would be clients giving your quote to another to see if they can do better. Total ******s.

also giving your quote to another firm and saying do it for that price and the job is yours after you have already beaten their quote!!!

 

[brooky25]

Twisted earths in one sleeving.
Diy Bri wiring earth into neutral at all light fittings, Thanks for holding my C.u change up all day
Diy Bri again deciding to split Ring L+E into 15amp junction boxes under floorboards but leaving neutrals connected.
Arrrrgh

 

[Guest112]

imbeciles that cut cpc's off=== because they don't do anything, do they.

plumbers, builders, kitchen fitters that think they can install electrical circuits.

Or domestic installers lol

 

[D80]

Twisted earths in 1 sleeving
The above, but with 1 broken earth
Being undercut by a cowboy
Dominic Littlewood
Matt Allwright

 

[ipf]

Members of MENSA shouting their mouths off.

 

[DNS1]

Members of MENSA shouting their mouths off.

hilarious...

 

[ipf]

hilarious...

Not meant to be funny............................really.

 

[DNS1]

Really? Just a coincidence then... Fair enough.

 

[Kiers1970]

Builders saying: We will install the lighting ring....

 

[Kiers1970]

Clients who ask: What will you do with all that dust/ plasterwork under the floorboards, that was there before you lifted them.

 

[telectrix]

Builders saying: We will install the lighting ring....

must be intending to smother cables in itchy-poo. allowing for de-rating.

 

[Octopus]

More a case of what they have not done, like label the distribution board.

I couldn't agree more to this suggestion. 2 today completely unmarked - 1 of which the customer had the cert listing all the circuits and a nice "tick" against circuits identified.

With most of us using electronic certificates and mobiles with cameras these days maybe its time for the EIC, on CU changes to include a photo of the complete CU with circuits labelling in place.

 

[Guitarist]

Realising your favourite screwdriver has fallen out of your pocket and is "somewhere" amongst the loft insulation...

 

[Big n Daft]

Any loft insulation. Why cant it be the stuff that comes in panels and fixed to the rafters out of the bloody way, or the stuff in bags up there.
Then there's the "well its worked for years, its only since you've put that DCR thingy on that it doesnt work and you want me to pay for you to get it to work, it was fine before you buggered about with it. I dont like them big green wires on them pipes either."

 

[telectrix]

Any loft insulation. Why cant it be the stuff that comes in panels and fixed to the rafters out of the bloody way,

that's been my argument for years. why ruin a perfectly good attic , especially one that's been built properly, before those godawful space destroying roof trusses were invented. trusses are for hernias.

 

[trev]

Well my kitchen fitter said.........(insert phrase of your own choice)

 

[Doomed]

Circuits labelled 'lighting' that when you turn them off leave the lights on and turn all the computers off!
(The circuit labelled overhead heaters turned the lights off)

 

[Guitarist]

The customer saying that they will do the channelling, then finding it's not deep enough