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.

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Leesparkykent · May 5, 2015

SIIVION said:
Today's findings. Located on top of a tool store in large workshop.

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haha quality!

SIIVION · May 5, 2015

from a few months ago...

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This has been like this for over 1 year. The blacks are neutrals, running around the cable tray for about 25 metres

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NDG Elecs · May 6, 2015

shef11 said:
RCD Tripping.

A leak to corpse.
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Worked fine until the CU upgrade.
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Now if that was an insulated CU the mouse might still be eating crumbs. Obviously the IP rating wasn't up to much!

17edSparkyJoe · May 7, 2015

shef11 said:
View attachment 29021Responded to a call out to replace the usual broken pendant and glossed over light switch at a tenants property. Went to knock power off to find the main RCCB switch was already in the "off" position. That's odd I thought. Anyway on removal of the lid I was confronted with this delight!
Spoke to the tenant to find out if anyone had been tinkering. Apparently a few "months" earlier they had contacted the out of hours emergency electricians to restore their power. This crew were from the main contractor that service all the council properties in the city. To bypass a main switch is one thing but to connect the mains directly to an out going shower circuit is quite another. No one was scheduled to come back and rectify it either, as far as I was aware.

Haha that's one way to solve nuisance tripping!

Resu · Jun 3, 2015

"Our boiler has stopped working"

cprfenom · Jun 3, 2015

Resu said:
"Our boiler has stopped working"

That must of stunk for a while too! And I'm not talking about the bin

Darkwood · Jun 3, 2015

Well that's an obvious one cos the end of the cable is connected to anything...!

Resu · Jun 3, 2015

darkwood said:
Well that's an obvious one cos the end of the cable is connected to anything...!

Ha, I knew there would be one!

Resu · Jun 3, 2015

Just remembered about another pic I have. Completely different property, similar incident...

Resu · Jun 3, 2015

Should explain. First pic, cutting of cable, was within a commercial boiler. Heating loop had burst and boiler had run dry and boiled it's nuts off, the stat and thermal cut out had both been messed about with by a previous hero and is why we think they never cut off before the damage was done. Actually surprised the cable got to the point it did before the fuse blew! This incident also killed two pumps.

Second one was loop burst again and pump ran dry and caught fire. Luckily RCD tripped and fire was contained within the boiler.

sparkzalot · Jun 4, 2015

My husbands also an electrician and hes installed a few lights in the bathroom...

Approved spark · Jun 5, 2015

student let kitchen

Kamikaze · Jun 7, 2015

And you thought some electricians are dippy!

uksparks · Jun 7, 2015

This is a socket, obviously, it was down the side of a fridge, basically the house movers had forced a fridge in a hole far too small and dented the side of the fridge, and the force had broken the socket because the inner but as you can see had been pushed in, it then went bang because the earth tag cut into the live wire behind!