Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

Darkwood · Mar 21, 2015

Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.

[ElectriciansForums.net] Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago.

mg_smile:

Tiny Spark · Apr 6, 2015

Just found this one.
Not entirely sure whats going on here but it looks impressive!

Paul.M · Apr 6, 2015

Tiny Spark said:
Just found this one.
Not entirely sure whats going on here but it looks impressive!

Even Mrs.M PHSL :rofl:

I love the earthing arrangement, "Screw in grout" technique!!!!! Reminds me of a hotel we stayed at in Malta!

Kamikaze · Apr 6, 2015

It’s gonna make washing down the tiles more interesting.:biggrin:

Paul.M · Apr 6, 2015

Kamikaze said:
It’s gonna make washing down the tiles more interesting.:biggrin:

Kamikaze, stop posting up pics of your own installs. I'll tell Tony Cable about you!?!?!? (good to see that we are on the same wave length still

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Kamikaze · Apr 6, 2015

Paul.M said:
Kamikaze, stop posting up pics of your own installs. I'll tell Tony Cable about you!?!?!? (good to see that we are on the same wave length still ).

I’ve got a condition that prevented me from moving the socket out of the shower area. It’s called not giving a ****.

[video=youtube;8WuXEGPqUmg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WuXEGPqUmg[/video]

Paul.M · Apr 6, 2015

^^^ What are you like Kam??? Good track btw

Kamikaze · Apr 6, 2015

That’s enough monkey business for one day, I'm outta here….lol.
[video=youtube;tn6N8SidEg8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn6N8SidEg8[/video]

bigbaddave · Apr 6, 2015

Working on a house and notice this next door, 2.5 singles through a vent to a rod in the front garden

Tiny Spark · Apr 6, 2015

bigbaddave said:
View attachment 28721 View attachment 28722 View attachment 28723Working on a house and notice this next door, 2.5 singles through a vent to a rod in the front garden

Whats that all about?
Dont people know you only need 1 2.5mm??

GB.Kayak · Apr 6, 2015

Tiny Spark said:
Whats that all about?
Dont people know you only need 1 2.5mm??

I didn't have no 6 mm² so I put in 2 x 2.5 mm² ... it'll do won't it?

Kamikaze · Apr 6, 2015

I hope they like it!:biggrin:

HandySparks · Apr 6, 2015

Tiny Spark said:
Whats that all about?

It's that well known form of protection, the thin blue line. :biggrin:

Darkwood · Apr 7, 2015

We have a thread running at present http://www.electriciansforums.co.uk...urrent-17th-edition-regs-12v.html#post1093624 and the poster has uploaded some beauties to show...

Now this from what has been told was a buried service Pyro that was drilled thus the results so assume it was DNO fused at the extent of the blast.

The poster (a tenent not a sparks) said even he could have guessed the Pyro was there as it was evident where it entered... so award for DF of the year...

sintec · Apr 8, 2015

darkwood said:
We have a thread running at present http://www.electriciansforums.co.uk...urrent-17th-edition-regs-12v.html#post1093624 and the poster has uploaded some beauties to show...
View attachment 28743 View attachment 28744

Now this from what has been told was a buried service Pyro that was drilled thus the results so assume it was DNO fused at the extent of the blast.

The poster (a tenent not a sparks) said even he could have guessed the Pyro was there as it was evident where it entered... so award for DF of the year...

They blew a few 100 amp fuses in the communal fuse cupboard, that is next to the main door to a block of flats

Here are some more from the alleged safe install & these were in plain sight to the Supervisor

In the 1st pic, you might just be able to make out the MICC PYRO cable under the orange cable clip at the bottom right of the board, it is close to the two wires though

These next two are of the temporary MICC PYRO cable

This is how the fuse box looks now

EDIT:

I forgot to add the list of faults found within that installation was no less than 18, I was writing them down as inspector discovered them back in 2011 refurbishment program

Dust cover left over the Smoke Alarm
Smoke Alarm wires exposed via a hole in living room ceiling
Extractor fans are not wired correctly
Missing and unchanged units for extractor fans (in airing cupboard)
Extractor fans set to wrong settings
Extractor fans not fitted correctly to the wall
Possible wrong external wall vents for extractor fans 2 different types of vent exist at present time
Cables in airing cupboard connected with a connector block, taped with insulation tape exposing the bare connections to the connector block (in airing cupboard)
The hole drilled into the mains Mineral-insulated copper-clad cable (MICC PYRO) cable (in airing cupboard)
The damage caused to the fuse box because of the hole drilled into the mains (MICC PYRO) cable (in airing cupboard)
Earth cable incorrectly and loosely fitted to the main gas feed on gas meter to the boiler and cooker (in airing cupboard)
When using the microwave the lights in the kitchen flickers
There is a 13 amp fuse fitted instead of a 3 amp on a fused light switch
Changed outer sections of light fittings but not the internal fittings
Electrical cables exposed via a hole in airing cupboard ceiling (in airing cupboard)
No trunking for cables adjacent to gas and water pipes (in airing cupboard)
Cables are overhanging the prepay electric meter adjacent to where I place the payment key to top up or access emergency credit (in airing cupboard)
Missing 3 blank off’s on the fuse box (in airing cupboard)

Only 2 weeks ago they got round to changing the vent grill from a flap type to a slotted type & said I had the wrong extractor fan in the bathroom as it should of been a humidistat, hence my query in the other thread & again the extractor fan in the kitchen was allegedly wired up incorrectly, now I have two speeds (Trickle & Fast, with switch in on position & 15 minute fast in the off position reverting back to a trickle) to the kitchen fan & no off switch unless I isolate it at the RCD & it turns off the main sockets.

The Bathroom fan shares the same RCD as the Lights & the Smoke alarm

All done by the Housing authority's alleged NICEIC sparks & the Housing Authority is also registered as NICEIC registered, that said when typed in the name of the Housing to http://www.checkmynotification.com/ the latest entry is in 2010 & nothing since