Tell us about your faults!

[High Tower]

Took the board cover off and ta-da!

Who needs din rails!

 

[telectrix]

there you go again. nit-picking my work before it's been taped up! :59:

 

[PEG]

Looks like a bit of topiary going on lower left,very pretty...

 

[GT1]

No continuity on live side of ring. Spent half a day searching until I spotted the coat hooks screwed into the wall above where the old wylex board was..

Been there about 35 years with only one leg of the ring going.

 

[GT1]

Today I have been mostly hunting buried junction boxes..!

This is actually the old metal light fitting, complete with lovely swept bends on the metal conduit feeding into and out of it.

Some clown had decided to not bother about the CPCs. All of them snipped out, short...!

And it's the same at pretty much every lighting point and switch, cpc snipped out.

 

[dazza1981]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

Imagine the scene,Friday afternoon about 3 oclock,office gets a call,a 2KW heater gone down in the securitys site office,(cant have the security guards getting cold,they wont be able to fall asleep)anyway i get the job to go and replace said heater,site was around an hours drive from where i was,i eventually get there report to site manager,then have to show my cscs and get inducted on site,all the usual rubbish.No risk assesment no method statement,site manager reluctantly lets me get to work,its around 5 oclock now and not even got my screwdriver out,site manager standing over me,i guess he wanted to go home,im rushing around like somebody possessed,isolate heater circuit and disconnect heater from SFU fit new heater to wall wire it up energise circuit test heater nothing aaaarrrrhhhh.Lots of colourful language by this stage,site managers pacing up and down,i ask him any chance of a brew. Well didnt get brew tested SFU,its not swiching no probs run to van get new SFU safely isolate again,but now have to dissconnect circuit cables,CPC and N touch taking out whole site,ask site agent for keys to CU,their on the way to liverpool,site sparks got them in his pocket.When a very angry site spark returned i set main switch and everything was fine.I left site at 19.30.The moral behind this story is rushing gets you nowhere fast.Istill didnt get a brew,but the guards were nice and warm.

Ha great story..... i can definately relate to it. And it makes it ten times worst with someone standing over your shoulder. pmsl

 

[Carpe Diem]

20A junction box used to extend the line tail. BTW somebody ran out of red cable! Oh, and a little matter of forgetting to connect the earth bar in the fuseboard to the MET - must have run out of black cable as well then.

 

[Englishman]

Had a broken neutral on the kitchen ring in a block of flats that's been up less than 13 months.

Tracked it down and noticed it went up behind a wall unit, off it came, and this is what I found

 

[jay sean]

That reminds me of a new block of social housing flats I worked in, no continuity on the ring in the kitchen at all, opened all the spurs/skts, some idiot does not known load from supply!!!

 

[Englishman]

That reminds me of a new block of social housing flats I worked in, no continuity on the ring in the kitchen at all, opened all the spurs/skts, some idiot does not known load from supply!!!

Got a load of new build flats in Crawley and I'm hitting issues, mostly small to be fair, at nearly every flat.