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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Simonslimline · Mar 21, 2016

stevethesparks said:
Looking at a friends house today he has just purchased.
Sorry about the middle pic, but couldn't resist this little gem of a consumers unit change utilising the old one for a connection point. No need to extend the CPC's and Neutrals then. :stuart:
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Makes testing it in future rather more enjoyable i would imagine. :leaving:

stevethesparks · Mar 21, 2016

Simonslimline said:
Makes testing it in future rather more enjoyable i would imagine. :leaving:

As he hasn't moved in as yet, and I didn't want to upset things too much until he does, lets say limited testing was performed.
Will be fun rectifying it all.

telectrix · Mar 21, 2016

i can see an adaptable din rail box going in there and the cables extending professionally, along with a shiny new steel CU with RCD protection.

Pete999 · Mar 21, 2016

telectrix said:
i can see an adaptable din rail box going in there and the cables extending professionally, along with a shiny new steel CU with RCD protection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbgHM1mI0k

jeffelectric · Mar 22, 2016

The pic will be here in a few months , when some one finds the bodge the QS of a Niciec reg firm did yesterday. he had to move the 45A cooker switch in a highend newbuild. new backbox 30cm to right of old place ,joined the 10mm twinearth in the old box, cut 2 cores off of cores to fit in yellow crimps and then filled the box with silicon it looked like jellied cables. some one could easily hit the cable as it is now out of zone .

David M · Mar 25, 2016

David M said:
So I haven't got any pictures yet, but I thought I'd share with you folks about my visit to an unfinished job.

My mate has been doing some tiling in a cottage out in the sticks not far from where we both live. The builder contracted to do all the structural works including the electrics has done a bunk and left the property owners in a bit of a pickle. Desperate to get the job finished as they are soon to be moving in, my mate (ex friend now lol) suggested I go take a look at finishing the electrics off. As a rule I wouldn't get involved in this sort of thing but the folks are quite desperate and my mate felt a bit sorry for them so I agreed to nip over today and take a look.

On the phone they explained that the majority of the install was complete and that it just needed some second fixing to complete the job.
As soon as I walked through the door my suspicions were raised as there were live wires left hanging out of back boxes!
" full rewire, as in complete new installation?" I asked the owner " yep" he replied "that is what we agreed with the building contractor"

This is a list of just a few things I found on a quick visual:-
1. No main earthbonding installed to incoming metal services
2. Mixed wiring colours, showing clear evidence that existing old wiring had been re-used
3. 2 way lighting circuit with both switches hanging off the walls because there were no back boxes installed to fix them to
4. The same 2 way lighting circuit installed in T&E using the cpc as the common conductor.
5. Bathroom light fitting installed directly over a shower/bath using a standard bayonet fitting hanging off the ceiling with what looked like a dozen cables jammed into it.
6. Cooker circuit wired directly into the appliance with no means of local isolation.
7. Cables run down and across walls all over the place with no form of mechanical protection.
8. Old j.b's re-used all over the place
9. No lid on a j.b exposing a very poorly terminated junction with the cpc's just twisted together and un-sheaved.
10. SWA poorly installed and terminated which supplies an out building.

The list I'm sure will go on, but at this point I isolated the main supply and advised the owners that they should get a thorough investigation done and that they may face a complete re-install.

They have asked me to do some further investigation (which I've agreed to do early in the week) to determine what if anything can be salvaged.

Ok some pics to follow after my further investigation.

Bathroom Light fitting

Two way lighting circuit

Routing of cables

In service Junction box

In service junction box

Socket fixing

Two way switch

All these photos were taken today prior to me doing any rip out or start over! This is the state of just some of the installation after a "full re-wire". The owner of the property wasn't just ripped off but actually put in danger!

That bathroom light fitting almost touched my head as I stood in the bath! An I ain't 7ft tall!:90:

Note the use of the cpc as the common conductor on all the two way lighting!

This guy can't be bothered with sleeving either. After inspecting and testing the socket ring circuit I found no continuity on the neutral conductor and no sleeving on any of the cpc's. The neutral problem turned out to be a loose connection and the ring actually tested ok, which surprised me considering the two ends of the ring had been connected into seperate 16A mcb's.:frown2::thinking: Turns out that the two radial circuits in the house were connected together in a 32A mcb. :wacko:

Pete999 · Mar 25, 2016

Woff woff the jack of no trades has been busy, bet he belongs to one of the scams

ruston · Mar 25, 2016

I think you are just to fussy.

Dave OCD · Mar 25, 2016

Pete999 said:
Woff woff the jack of no trades has been busy, bet he belongs to one of the scams

I'd bet that he doesn't.

David M · Mar 25, 2016

Pete999 said:
Woff woff the jack of no trades has been busy, bet he belongs to one of the scams

The poor folk have be inundated with jacks of no trades thus far! Sounds to me like a job for Big Dom Littewood from "Cowboy Builders" :2guns:

Pete999 · Mar 25, 2016

David M said:
The poor folk have be inundated with jacks of no trades thus far! Sounds to me like a job for Big Dom Littewood from "Cowboy Builders" :2guns:

As long as Melinda is with him I agree

David M · Mar 25, 2016

Pete999 said:
As long as Melinda is with him I agree

That's uncanny cause I was thinking exactly the same thing!:drool5:

Simonslimline · Mar 29, 2016

(Taken from Facebook)

A customer called me and asked if I could have a look at a connection he had performed on his generator. The cable he had attached to the generator was a 3x95mm2 aluminum. The main fuse on the generator was 400Amps! I did not approve.

Paul.M · Mar 29, 2016

Simonslimline said:
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WTF!!!!! :rolleyes4:

Simonslimline · Mar 29, 2016

Paul.M said:
WTF!!!!! :rolleyes4:

This was my thought as well.

The mind boggles.

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