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..

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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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leep82 · Aug 14, 2017

LewisM said:
Not sure how somebody could mess up a socket so bad especially when the colours are on the socket.

http://i.Upload the image directly to the thread.com/k7LNgDM.jpg

Not really dodgy but a big board for one circuit.

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future proofing

leep82 · Aug 14, 2017

LewisM said:
Not sure how somebody could mess up a socket so bad especially when the colours are on the socket.

http://i.Upload the image directly to the thread.com/k7LNgDM.jpg

Not really dodgy but a big board for one circuit.

http://i.Upload the image directly to the thread.com/6z8jqZV.jpg

future proofing

LewisM · Aug 14, 2017

freddo said:
Well at least it would function (if there was no RCD).

Thing is the circuit was on a RCBO and wouldn't trip and when I corrected the socket and checked the others which where all fine the RCBO still wouldn't trip so i had to replace it.

Dave OCD · Aug 14, 2017

That looks like a standard double socket has been swapped out for a USB version and the cables connected in the same order as they were before.

LewisM · Aug 14, 2017

Dave OCD said:
That looks like a standard double socket has been swapped out for a USB version and the cables connected in the same order as they were before.

Exactly what I thought, the rest of the sockets are EATON which layout is the same as the the way it was connected.

freddo · Sep 4, 2017

Came across this during a periodic ages ago.

DPG · Sep 4, 2017

Who needs to chase walls out when you can just wallpaper over the t&e ?

123 · Sep 4, 2017

At least it has a smiley face though

freddo · Sep 4, 2017

The cable exits at the back of the box to an immersion in the cupboard behind and the supply enters at the top of the switch from the trunking IIRC. The crease below is just really bad wallpapering!

Phil Thompson · Sep 4, 2017

Was at a house the week before last and found this baby. The lights had blew, but this was the sockets.

Was sizzling away once I took the cover off, seemed to be the actual holder as opposed to the connections themselves.

freddo · Sep 4, 2017

I do like those MEM boards, replaced one yesterday.

Wilko · Sep 5, 2017

Got called to fix an outlet that had stopped working. It didn't take too long to find, apparently it had worked for some years ... Sometimes nice things do just happen

DPG · Sep 5, 2017

Blimy, that's not even a close one - it's well down on to the insulation.

Wilko · Sep 5, 2017

DPG said:
Blimy, that's not even a close one - it's well down on to the insulation.

Owner said it worked for some years but microwave had stopped working a while back. N must've been just touching in the bottom of the receiver, I guess.
I think it was Mr Kitchen's work

freddo · Sep 5, 2017

Another periodic inspection from hell, the date on the photo says 2011 so a few years ago. The first signs of problems was when I was unplugging things to start dead testing. I got quite a whack from the pins of a plug. Hmm, the appliance must have a large cap across the supply or something. Or perhaps full mains.

Oh look, another one!

Turned out the tenant liked wiring lights by connecting the load to the back of a socket and then powering it with a plug, the switch on the reverse fed socket acted as the light switch. What a dick head. He wouldn't let me confiscate the dangerous leads but I did get him to dismantle them before I left, there were 2 young children running about there.

Everything was wired with flex, mostly 2 core, the 3 flexes here feed a socket and 2 wall lights.

Another p|ss poor effort in another room, this went through the wall to a shed, was joined via open connector block to some white flex, joined with a joint box with no lid to some black flex then joined directly to the flex of a chest freezer by twisting and taping. I stuck a plug on the freezer and got them to use an extension lead until proper wiring was installed.

DPG · Sep 5, 2017

Jeez that's bad.

Phil Thompson · Sep 5, 2017

That's total madness.

telectrix · Sep 5, 2017

i have found new accommodation for that tenant:

at least he'll not be able to kill his kids here.

freddo · Sep 5, 2017

They weren't even his kids! He was looking after them for some relative.

ferg · Sep 5, 2017

Some highlights from a recent EICR. About 20 or so melty downlighters.
I never did find the other end of the concentric but it left the upstream board in 2.5 t&e.

telectrix · Sep 15, 2017

where to start with thi? i thought axe and crowbar. sorry for the bad pic. i was on ladder and too close to get it focussed propery.

Strima · Sep 15, 2017

telectrix said:
where to start with thi? i thought axe and crowbar. sorry for the bad pic. i was on ladder and too close to get it focussed propery.

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Stop posting pictures of my jobs up!!! Took me hours to get it like that...

Toneyz · Sep 15, 2017

telectrix said:
where to start with thi? i thought axe and crowbar. sorry for the bad pic. i was on ladder and too close to get it focussed propery.

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Is this another forum competition spot the bird in the nest closest wins a prize.

telectrix · Sep 15, 2017

the left hand wylex RCBO has a 10mm feeding a shower. i think the right hand one is for bathroom lights ( or all upstairs lights). all MCBs have a bit of faded illegible pencil marks, so God knows what they feed. when the thing has a fair load on it, it buzzes like crazy.

Dave OCD · Sep 15, 2017

What job do you have to do there Tel ? [God help you !]

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