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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LabourForApprenticeship · Sep 21, 2019

Dustydazzler said:
Unfortunately this is very typical penny pinching , I have done new builds where you would be handed box of Stuff to do a job.
No blue sleeve , no brown sleeve , no grommets , no nothing.
Just told don’t bother with any of that stuff and just chuck it in.
I have very often supplied my own grommets and sleeve just to feel better how I leave the job.

These people are getting million pound contracts... awful practices. Need reporting tbh. I wouldn't want another glenfell incident on my conscience.
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littlespark said:
That last photo is a looped neutral, not a switchwire without brown sleeving. Or were you showing us a loose connection?

The cpc's should have been connected to the metal backbox. Why waste money on a bit of choc block connector when the box has one already there.

Showing loose connection. Board was live and signed off

Dustydazzler · Sep 21, 2019

Is that a loop terminal for the neutrals ?

freddo · Sep 21, 2019

Backbox not earthed either?

ipf · Sep 21, 2019

Dustydazzler said:
Is that a loop terminal for the neutrals ?

Well your common is your loop for lives.
Not seen those, though.
Looks like it's just being used as a one gang one way.
The back box should be earthed....just lazy.

westward10 · Sep 21, 2019

The switch is poorly marked the Hager ones have an N terminal. I am pretty sure that Loop terminal is for the neutrals.

sarky spark · Sep 21, 2019

A tad beyond repair.

Dustydazzler · Sep 21, 2019

Was that still live...?

telectrix · Sep 21, 2019

if it is, it's close to death. that box looks like my lungs after 60 years of smokes.

Pharlo · Sep 21, 2019

wouldn`t want to be turning that iso switch

littlespark · Sep 21, 2019

That’s it’s IP rating well compromised!

sarky spark · Sep 21, 2019

was still live, about 2.8M above the ground in a publicly accessible place.

westward10 · Sep 21, 2019

I think that is one of the best corrosion damage pics I have seen where everything is still in situ.

Dustydazzler · Sep 21, 2019

I’m not sure what’s more concerning then , the risk of shock or risk of tetanus

FatAlan · Sep 22, 2019

sarky spark said:
A tad beyond repair.

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Back in the UK’s pre EU days all Leyland and Dagenham made cars used to look like that after a couple of years. Good thing is there are probably legions of 70 pluses out there who are dab hands with wire brushes and fibreglass who could patch that up in no time.

telectrix · Sep 22, 2019

give it to Fuzz Townshend of car sos. he'll have a new box welded up and sprayed in 10 minutes.

Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

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