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Classic reply Geordie!

Ranger. Yes that is a total bog up. But please let us see your final solution. (Not Hitler’s version).
 
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bit of insulation tape.... be fine. but what a bodge, leaving a JB lid off like that.
 
I came a cross something similar yesterday, only thing is the place was suppose to have been rewired 2 yrs ago

Probably will have been done by one of those time served sparks that was a trainee for 150 years, been in the job for a zillion years and moans on about 5 week wonders on this forum :icon10: (I'll get my tin hat)

There's good and bad in all walks of life, regardless - but to do something like that on a recent rewire just isn't cricket :)
 
Probably will have been done by one of those time served sparks that was a trainee for 150 years, been in the job for a zillion years and moans on about 5 week wonders on this forum :icon10: (I'll get my tin hat)

There's good and bad in all walks of life, regardless - but to do something like that on a recent rewire just isn't cricket :)

Would you like to borrow my wooden spoon, or do you prefer a shovel ?? ;)
 
Probably will have been done by one of those time served sparks that was a trainee for 150 years, been in the job for a zillion years and moans on about 5 week wonders on this forum :icon10: (I'll get my tin hat)

There's good and bad in all walks of life, regardless - but to do something like that on a recent rewire just isn't cricket :)

I take it, that your one of those Electrical Trainee then?? ...lol!!
 
Well at least he had the brains to tie in the earths as I have seen worse mind this was probably done in the 70-80s when earth sleeving was expensive I worked for a big firm and it was rationed to the extent that you stripped bits of a 2.5 single earth cable to get some so put it down to the sign of the times
 
Came across a good few in a huge Victorian stately home that I was doing a PIR on last year. Must have found 20 odd in all. Rewired in the 70s by the Electricity board guys, along with no earth sleeving anywhere, metal switch plates unearthed etc etc. One of the sparkies is still around, should I mention it? Lol

Ah, the good old days:tongue:
 
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Yep the old days Taffy just to highlight that 24 years ago I put a 8 way Wylex metal DB with circuit breakers in my house the DB was £70 and the CBs was £7 each so £126 in total yet fast forward and a 10 way dual RCD Wylex £80 buck all in and the £126 in 1988 is now worth £275-£290
 
oldtimer, true enough mate. i come across this often, glad to know it was standard practice all over the country. ;-). Just goes to show that the there was the clink of spurs and the smell of horse manure around before Part P. Something its easy to forget.
 
Just to add a double socket was £8 for an Ashly and £12 for a MK hence why some houses wired at the time there was one or even 2 single sockets doubles were a luxury mind I never worked in Hoose bashin as i called it I was in the commercial / industrial sector ie conduit trunking micc 3 phase DBs
 
Just to add a double socket was £8 for an Ashly and £12 for a MK hence why some houses wired at the time there was one or even 2 single sockets doubles were a luxury mind I never worked in Hoose bashin as i called it I was in the commercial / industrial sector ie conduit trunking micc 3 phase DBs

Not one of those commercial electricians that knows jack about testing and has to be told what to do by others, ....surely not??

Getting back serious...haha!! I remember those once high prices of electrical equipment and accessories. And your dead right, the older domestic installations, will often show signs of those high costs. Why you see so many socket JBs, where sockets have been added to circuits as and when funds were available.... I remember when only 2 X singles were installed to lounges as standard...lol!!!
 
I remember when only 2 X singles were installed to lounges as standard...lol!!!

2!!!!! luxury. 1 15A round pin socket in the corner for the wireless and cords without plugs stuffed in. iron with a bayonet plug on it, plugged into the light pendant.
 

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