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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[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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naylorpd · Oct 21, 2018

I live abroad...this is considered normal! When we have heavy rain sometimes these types of connections start to arc, the fireworks are spectacular as the cable often melts.

My own house is connected properly, but still the mains is 4x16mm aluminium single-insulated and I have 4x35mm copper SWA from meter to CU. Thankfully my 17 split ACs are never all on at the same time.

Rpa07 · Oct 21, 2018

Roondog said:
Some things I've come across this week while testing and commissioning some emergency lights on a new build. Just simple stuff that people should not be doing....

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We’re those cables dressed by a rodent! There’s gnaw marks all over them.
Don’t show @westward10 those CPC sleeves that look like Nora Battys stockings - he’ll throw a wobbler!

GBDamo · Oct 22, 2018

65th of 347

Somethings not right here..

SparkyChick · Oct 22, 2018

GBDamo said:
65th of 347

Somethings not right here..

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Seriously??? What were they thinking???

GBDamo · Oct 22, 2018

SparkyChick said:
Seriously??? What were they thinking???

Pub, I think.

Not an alteration as consistent with the rest of the install. Can only think it was a ten to four on a Friday job.

Got a nice shiny NICEIC tested sticker on the DB so must be right.

LeeH · Oct 23, 2018

naylorpd said:
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I live abroad...this is considered normal! When we have heavy rain sometimes these types of connections start to arc, the fireworks are spectacular as the cable often melts.

My own house is connected properly, but still the mains is 4x16mm aluminium single-insulated and I have 4x35mm copper SWA from meter to CU. Thankfully my 17 split ACs are never all on at the same time.

I saw loads of crap like that and worse working in Asia. Are you out there?

123 · Oct 24, 2018

This thread has plenty of rats nest's in the photo's, so for a bit of balance...a birds nest...

FatAlan · Oct 24, 2018

Is that a Nest thermostat?

'mr2'gd4u · Oct 25, 2018

Thanks wet pants, cable clipping isn't necessary now.. Oh and thanks for running your waste pipe AROUND my cabling.. Cheers.

Baddegg · Oct 25, 2018

I think wet pants suffer from a medical condition known as “cable blindness” resulting in a complete inability to see electrical cables, seems to be spreading as well.....

Pete999 · Oct 25, 2018

Baddegg said:
I think wet pants suffer from a medical condition known as “cable blindness” resulting in a complete inability to see electrical cables, seems to be spreading as well.....

No mate not cable blindness it's FYJIAR, work it out for yourself, sometimes boarders and Chippies can catch it, but it seems to be virulent in the WetPants community.

pirate · Oct 26, 2018

pirate · Oct 26, 2018

public footpath lit by bollard lights. This one obviously failed so big JB instead. No grommets, 2 cables just shoved inside, earths terminated into a choc block outwith the enclosure, and which has split and rusted with weathering, so that one cpc has fallen out and the rest are somewhat compromised. Tidy, eh?