Heard about one CU being wallpapered. Wondered what the worst you've seen is, and pictures win prizes.
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Found in a wood mill extraction chamber, most of the sawdust fell out when cover was removed.
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Sawdust can create an explosive environment! Could have been quite a blast if there ever was a bad connection and the conditions were right.
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Silly Sausage
Not at those levels of compaction!
Westward, I hope you've tendered your multi million pound particulate extraction solution?
OP
Couldn't even tell you where mine is pal I get the butler and / or pa to sort out anything messy while I have a swim in my pool.Is yours tiled over?
It always amazes me when I've been to a customer's house and ask them where the water stop tap is and/or the fuse board and they look at me with a vacant stare,clueless.
Before I took the cover off it was compacted. Was doing an EICR and took ages to find it, maintenance had no idea it was there. If they did any works on the circuits from it they used to knock off its 63A supply breaker. The extraction chamber had been built around it and is probably still the same. No chance of an explosion in there I doubt it contained much oxygen.Not at those levels of compaction!
Westward, I hope you've tendered your multi million pound particulate extraction solution?
OP
She sure hasn't tiled it lolI'll ask Lou then
Where was the meter?
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