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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James · Mar 23, 2021

Doomed said:
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Eddy currents? What eddy currents.....

Wow, the worst thing is the incompetent person who last looked at it thought it was good enough to put there sticker on it in case there was ever a need to call there emergency number!

ipf · Mar 23, 2021

James said:
Wow, the worst thing is the incompetent person who last looked at it thought it was good enough to put there sticker on it in case there was ever a need to call there emergency number!

That's juice providers for you....

nicebutdim · Mar 23, 2021

westward10 said:
They had a grant to update to LED lighting in which some rogue company was used. The EXIT emergencies in the hall had switches to put them on when the hall was in use, these were either disconnected or connected up wrong. Two test facilities in other areas were rendered useless so spent most of the afternoon reinstating it all.

You worked for them FOC, then they hand grant funded work to someone else and ask you to sort out the problems?

Going to be the most satisfying of invoices to draw up.

westward10 · Mar 23, 2021

nicebutdim said:
You worked for them FOC, then they hand grant funded work to someone else and ask you to sort out the problems?

Going to be the most satisfying of invoices to draw up.

Don't know what the score was the committees change like the wind but I believe the contractors used were somehow bound into the grant, village life is a fickle thing.

JosephandAmber · Mar 23, 2021

Not only was this RCBO upside down, the busbar had been bent to make it fit.

stevethesparks · Mar 23, 2021

And I thought all the MEM's were upside down

ipf · Mar 24, 2021

^^^^ That needs resetting to 'YES'.

Mike Johnson · Mar 24, 2021

Words fail me.

littlespark · Mar 24, 2021

Mike Johnson said:
View attachment 83711Words fail me.

A picture so good you posted it twice, Mike.. it’s also on the COVID lite thread.

Mike Johnson · Mar 24, 2021

It's early for me, I am not fully awake yet, but it is a good photo, shows its not just electricians that have problems, but would this have been done by a plumber or builder? ?

Doomed · Mar 24, 2021

Bloomin' Australian sparkies coming over here and taking our work

Dustydazzler · Mar 24, 2021

How difficult is it to put an MCB up the blooming right way...

See it it so often these days upside down breakers or mix n match breakers/rcbos

littlespark · Mar 24, 2021

Proteus breakers in a proteus board. How could they put them upside down? They fit fine the right way up.

and I’ll say it before anyone else does.

Who installs a proteus board anyway??

Zerax · Mar 24, 2021

telectrix said:
first class tiling job. stops the socket falling out.

Agreed... it also helps if you use the plates with angled edges... so that it's dovetailed in !

Dustydazzler · Mar 24, 2021

littlespark said:
Proteus breakers in a proteus board. How could they put them upside down? They fit fine the right way up.

and I’ll say it before anyone else does.

Who installs a proteus board anyway??

The house we live in has a Proteus board , the original split load board it was built with. At some stage some numpty added a 16a Hager MCB which sets my OCD off when ever I look at it. Thankfully it is in a cupboard so I only have to look at it once in a blue moon.

telectrix · Mar 24, 2021

just replace all the proteus stuff with hager.

ipf · Mar 24, 2021

Doomed said:
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Bloomin' Australian sparkies coming over here and taking our work

Well.... at least the two blanks are the right way up!!!

Darkwood · Mar 24, 2021

This is one I loaded in 2014, it feeds a fabric cutter machine, they said it stopped working... This is my world on a daily basis

SparkySy · Mar 24, 2021

Good luck with that one! I can't imagine that you left it in that state, God there are some vandals in that place!

Darkwood · Mar 24, 2021

It was 2014 and I basically told them I will build a new panel or walk, it fell a little under the safety requirements I would expect of a machine, believe it or not I found the problem straight away and it was clear they had had other sparkies out to try resolve it, I decided not to repair it though.

Darkwood · Mar 24, 2021

This is another one from my archive, this is a paxolin insulated support in a old 3 phase dist board, the bolts are across 3 phase and due to water ingress you can see where the arcing from one bolt to the next created a carbon path which took out the power to the building.

I made a temp' repair job to bring the short back up to a respectable value before quoting for a new board.
These are many years old and just posting for those that don't see the effects of arc damage on this level.

The bottom photo has cropped itself for some reason, it simply shows the temp repair grinding out the carbon and getting it up to 20Mohms.

Darkwood · Mar 24, 2021

This one is from about 7 yrs ago, I have little recollection of this job but it is headed 'Blown buried supply pyro', this is not my handy work as I don't do domestic boards, what amazes me here is there are only 3 circuits and it looks like there are at least 20 in there given the state of the wiring.

mattg4321 · Mar 24, 2021

3 circuits or 5?!

Don’t start that debate again

SparkySy · Mar 24, 2021

A couple of recent shots of lashery I have come across!

Darkwood · Mar 24, 2021

The good old pumped in cavity wall insulation, can't deny it but we had a good spate of these boards a decade or so ago before they halted the method.