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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Charlie_ · Apr 30, 2019

Oh my gosh!!
I don’t like the look of that post-it note

freddo · Apr 30, 2019

Charlie_ said:
Oh my gosh!!
I don’t like the look of that post-it note

It mentions a backup generator that was removed many years ago. Most of the management didn't even know the property had a generator. Looking at the size of the cable and purpose built engine room it must have been a monster.

westward10 · Apr 30, 2019

I like the lighting contactor enclosure with the vent holes in the cover.

freddo · Apr 30, 2019

westward10 said:
I like the lighting contactor enclosure with the vent holes in the cover.

freddo · Apr 30, 2019

Good job they are there, the heat wafting out of the upper holes is alarming. The contactors are rated 10A and are being used at 12-19A per pole, including the lower rated auxiliary contact... Nightmare.

static zap · Apr 30, 2019

freddo said:
Very much the opposite...

Porsche on the drive but anything in the American-Ice machine fridge !

freddo · May 2, 2019

ipf said:
Letter boxed in...………...I was asked to do an EICR...had a look and just had to post this.....before refusing the job.

Don't know what you are complaining about...

Both from the same place as my photos above.
And if you look a little to the left:

SparkySy · May 2, 2019

Your lighting circuit is a bit skinny and seems to be protected by a B50

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freddo · May 2, 2019

It's good to see the lighting updated with LED.

freddo · May 8, 2019

On a box of Cat6 cable. The designer must have been a special kind of stupid.

ChrisElectrical88 · May 8, 2019

Oh yes, someone bonded the plastic basin waste.

NDG Elecs · May 10, 2019

Looking at remedials following a EICR by someone else. Most of the report was ok but they had C1 for no bonding to plastic water supply pipe. And for some reason said it was TNCS...pic below... The pitch covered fabric (or whatever it is) isn't even stripped back...
The best bit was the gas pipework; the meter is outside and I saw what I thought was a bonding cable on it. But the cable simply goes down the wall by five feet and then I realised that it has it's own dedicated earth rod!

Wilko · May 11, 2019

Looks a bit home made - is that a car radiator hose clamp been repurposed?

NDG Elecs · May 11, 2019

Wilko said:
Looks a bit home made - is that a car radiator hose clamp been repurposed?

I didn't manage to climb in any further to see the other side of the cable properly due to the cupboard being full of clutter, although it didn't seem to be biting into the cable. I spent two hours on site going through the defects and working out possible cable routes for quoting. It's a commercial property (and will need to be largely done out of office hours).
It has three floors of lighting that are wired in twin vir with the conduit serving as the CPC. More crumbly than a flake in places. Some of the switchgear I have never seen before. Will take more pics if I get the job.
All three floors of lights are on the same B16. No emergency lights either, and this place gets a lot of Joe public foot traffic.
Isolator for main lights.