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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NDG Elecs · Jul 21, 2016

Amongst numerous other issues in the piccy, the one that hindered me was I couldn't get CUs cover off. I think the gas meter must have been changed to have the raised up part on the left hand side at some point. Idiots!

davesparks · Jul 21, 2016

TheGayOwl said:
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Amongst numerous other issues in the piccy, the one that hindered me was I couldn't get CUs cover off. I think the gas meter must have been changed to have the raised up part on the left hand side at some point. Idiots!

That raised up part at the left is the regulator, which reduces the pressure from the incoming service pipe to that required for the installation, and maintains the pressure.
I think, but am not certain, that that is quite an old type which requires mandatory notification to the gas board for replacement whenever a gas safe plumbob encounters one.

telectrix · Jul 21, 2016

just get the gas supplier to shift the stupid gas meter at their expense. whoever fitted it there is an arse.

richy3333 · Jul 21, 2016

Not as good as TheGayOwl's but I had this the other day. The cu cover wont close as the door casing impinges on it. The space is to small to get a normal screwdriver in to remove the far side retaining screw and the cover doesn't sit flush in any event (see the top).

Top of the board!

Henley's to the side of the CU. The exposed conductor is the Live.

The shower unit the Henley split feeds.

The meter tails were approx 8m from the DNO cut-out and unprotected.

NDG Elecs · Jul 21, 2016

richy3333 said:
Not as good as TheGayOwl's but I had this the other day. The cu cover wont close as the door casing impinges on it. The space is to small to get a normal screwdriver in to remove the far side retaining screw and the cover doesn't sit flush in any event (see the top).

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Top of the board!

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Henley's to the side of the CU. The exposed conductor is the Live.

The shower unit the Henley split feeds.

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The meter tails were approx 8m from the DNO cut-out and unprotected.

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The knob obviously didn't have any glans on him.....see what I did there!

NDG Elecs · Jul 21, 2016

telectrix said:
just get the gas supplier to shift the stupid gas meter at their expense. whoever fitted it there is an arse.

The house is being sold Tel so the owner is not bothered about it. I was just changing a light fitting, Zs nice and low so I am not too fussed either. Note on my invoice highlights the issue.

bigmark · Jul 22, 2016

i would say the gas meter was there before the cu as the pipework looks unaltered

Andy78 · Jul 23, 2016

DIY lighting circuit

Got called to a tripping set of downlights in a downstairs kitchen to find one of them had burned out. Mostly halogen lamps with a few coloured LEDs thrown in for "effect" Yes that's brown/brown used for line/neutral, and exposed basic insulation

I was informed that the guy who lived there previously had boasted about all the "improvements" he had done to the place including this kitchen lighting circuit. I discovered that the ceiling was stuffed with insulation, a mix of rockwool type, space blanket type, and the occasional sheet of kingspan/celotex chucked up there. You can see the lower layer of melted kingspan in this pic.

They agreed it would be best to remove these fittings as they mainly used floor and table lamps and the centre light anyway. I set about stripping the fittings and wiring out and came to disconnect at the switch.

So, yep that's how it came off the wall, with conductors falling out all over the place..... two terminal screws were so loose they had fallen out ! Also note the unearthed back box and metal front plate, and the exposed line conductor in the bottom right corner, a lovely combination.

If the guy who did this had been around I just don't know where I would have started, apart from maybe a slap round the head with BS7671.

NDG Elecs · Jul 24, 2016

bigmark said:
i would say the gas meter was there before the cu as the pipework looks unaltered

I thought that too at first, but it would have taken a very clever electrician to then fit the CU where it is. Snug as a bug they are.

ruston · Jul 24, 2016

TheGayOwl said:
I thought that too at first, but it would have taken a very clever electrician to then fit the CU where it is. Snug as a bug they are.

He might of moved it lol. Save all the wiring alterations.

bigmark · Jul 24, 2016

another clue is the tails are over the gas main if the pipe was installed after they would be behind

davesparks · Jul 25, 2016

bigmark said:
another clue is the tails are over the gas main if the pipe was installed after they would be behind

That particular CU maybe, but I'd hazard a guess that the previous CU was there before the gas meter.
The incoming service pipe appears to be copper, which is incredibly rare for the gas board to do, they normally use steel tube before the meter for something like that, which suggests the gas meter has at some point been moved to its current location.

bigmark · Jul 25, 2016

that is true they use flexi steel pipe onto meter used to be lead the outlet goes into the wall so at a guess the gas was there first id say cu moved down as it is almost resting on the otlet pipe and you could not put pipe in after

telectrix · Jul 25, 2016

Andy78 said:
DIY lighting circuit

Got called to a tripping set of downlights in a downstairs kitchen to find one of them had burned out. Mostly halogen lamps with a few coloured LEDs thrown in for "effect" Yes that's brown/brown used for line/neutral, and exposed basic insulation
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I was informed that the guy who lived there previously had boasted about all the "improvements" he had done to the place including this kitchen lighting circuit. I discovered that the ceiling was stuffed with insulation, a mix of rockwool type, space blanket type, and the occasional sheet of kingspan/celotex chucked up there. You can see the lower layer of melted kingspan in this pic.
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They agreed it would be best to remove these fittings as they mainly used floor and table lamps and the centre light anyway. I set about stripping the fittings and wiring out and came to disconnect at the switch.
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So, yep that's how it came off the wall, with conductors falling out all over the place..... two terminal screws were so loose they had fallen out ! Also note the unearthed back box and metal front plate, and the exposed line conductor in the bottom right corner, a lovely combination.

If the guy who did this had been around I just don't know where I would have started, apart from maybe a slap round the head with BS7671.

what a bag of Shyte, and did he use an axe to cut out the ceiling?

NDG Elecs · Jul 26, 2016

davesparks said:
That particular CU maybe, but I'd hazard a guess that the previous CU was there before the gas meter.
The incoming service pipe appears to be copper, which is incredibly rare for the gas board to do, they normally use steel tube before the meter for something like that, which suggests the gas meter has at some point been moved to its current location.

Spoke to owner about it, and she said the gas meter used to be outside but was moved inside. The house was built in the 1980's so likely to be the original CU I would have thought, and next door which is the same style house does have an external gas meter.

Edit: just remembered that next door does have an old 3036 board in. So ignore part of above!

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