"sorry love, you need a new metal cu, it'll make everything so much safer"

[goasis]

I can't get my boards as artistic as some of the YouTube sparks but came across this absolute shambles today... I know there's cowboys in all walks of life but do any other trades suffer so much with unskilled people charging money to do skilled work? (and getting away with it)

 

[JK-Electrical]

This abomination certainly isn't the work of a professional electrician, that's for sure!

 

[Phil L]

Wow that is a shower of ....

 

[pirate]

Sorry to tell you this, but you need a new transmission!
Oh, what's that?
Sorry, I meant, you need two new transmissions!

 

[James]

that is a pile of ----.
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poo

 

[Dustydazzler]

another right old lash up

but sadly all too typical of what we see on a daily basis

 

[Timbo]

What's the matter with that, then??

 

[telectrix]

What's the matter with that, then??

i got to 10 then ran out of fingers

 

[Dave OCD]

You couldn't make such a complete mess of that if you tried for a week, could it be a DIY 'effort' ?

 

[Mike Johnson]

I went to do a check on a DIY installation yesterday and it was one of the neatest I have seen for a long time, some gals do take pride in what they do.

 

[ED17]

What's the matter with that, then??

I think it's coz they used MK

 

[Fitzy]

This abomination certainly isn't the work of a professional electrician, that's for sure!

There’s no proof that it wasn’t installed by a time served professional electrician, I’ve come across a few DIY CU installs that look better than YouTube guys like Thomas Nagy, DSS, nick Bundy etc, just no paperwork, yet on the other hand I’ve seen installations done by time served electricians (20+ years), that look like a pile of rubbish and look like they done it with a blindfold on.

 

[Zerax]

I think it's very much a personal thing... some people can't help but do a very neat job. It's like tins in the cupboard at home... I have to have the labels all facing the front. I even do it in Lidl sometimes when I buy a couple of bottles of beer... it takes a few seconds to twist the bottles to face the front.... and looks so much better !

 

[Dustydazzler]

Every sparky is different

I have worked with guys who are registered and time served who’s boards look exactly like the one above....
they are just ’rough’ old badgers

 

[JK-Electrical]

There’s no proof that it wasn’t installed by a time served professional electrician.

Likewise, there's no proof that it was installed by a time served professional electrician. My eyes are telling me that it wasn't a professional spark who is responsible for this atrocity. What my eyes see here is typical of the dozens of consumer unit lash-ups I've seen over decades that were the work of incompetent DIYers.

 

[PEG]

I take it,the neutral insulation damage/scratches on the inside casing,were due to not having a telescopic sight,on his cordless.....?

 

[StephenRowley]

Ww

Likewise, there's no proof that it was installed by a time served professional electrician.

In my eyes its certainly not installed by a professional electrician.

That doesn't mean it was a DIY jobby

 

[DT1991]

Is the lug bent for the cover screw in photo 1?

 

[goasis]

Is the lug bent for the cover screw in photo 1?

Yeah the lug was bent right over somehow, the other half of the board looked a similar mess, there's a selection of jb's around the board extending circuits, Outer insulation on t&e stripped back beyond the jb, fused switch for sub main below the board with a hole in the top big enough to fit 2 fingers through, tape on cu cover over the spare way... Nothing about it said "professional" to me!