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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Baddegg · Aug 19, 2021

Agree, I don’t come accross many done properly but that one takes the p1$$

Dustydazzler · Aug 19, 2021

I just hope they didn;t pay for that abomination and it was a secret diy jobbie

Mike Johnson · Aug 19, 2021

I found one ducted into the top of the cold water tank, better than nothing I suppose.

LastManOnline · Aug 19, 2021

James said:
Wow, watch out for brittle cables if that is polystyrene.
it can remove the plasticisers from the pvc leaving it brittle when flexed.

Strangely, it was, nt sticking and "leeching" the pvc like it normally does. Here is how it looked 30 min later. Clean as a whistle, no sign of any heat damage. Good advertisement for the heat dissapation ability of Hagar mcb,s. This afterall is an electric home (electric shower, hob, immersion etc)

freddo · Aug 19, 2021

Mike Johnson said:
I found one ducted into the top of the cold water tank, better than nothing I suppose.

Once found a pressure relief valve plumbed into a fan duct. I say found, the boiling water coming out of the fan was a good indicator.

Baddegg · Aug 20, 2021

Was on a job the other week where a “builder” had plumbed the gas into the hot water pipe…..that caused some panic….

westward10 · Aug 20, 2021

They nearly got it right and this isn't the only one.

Simon47 · Aug 20, 2021

Baddegg said:
Was on a job the other week where a “builder” had plumbed the gas into the hot water pipe…..that caused some panic….

I bet.
I recall a while back an incident where the water and gas mains in the street got compromised - don't recall how. But the gas main filled with water and caused "quite a few problems" when it reached users' appliances.
After a quick search, it seems it's not a "very rare" event - I found videos from more than one gas distributor on "what we do if there's water in the gas mains". One mechanism to cause the problem seems to be a water pipe getting a leak, and that forming a high pressure jet which, together with particles from the surrounding soil, forms a cutting jet that then makes a hole in the gas pipe.

123 · Aug 20, 2021

Saw this one on facebook and found it disgusting. Cable tie around the neutrals, seriously like.

Julie. · Aug 20, 2021

123 said:
Saw this one on facebook and found it disgusting. Cable tie around the neutrals, seriously like.

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Yeah, that's the first thing I saw as well!!!!!

... I think....

littlespark · Aug 20, 2021

…. Is that brown and blue coloured outer sheath on the tails?

ipf · Aug 20, 2021

123 said:
Saw this one on facebook and found it disgusting. Cable tie around the neutrals, seriously like.

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Some might think Panasonic are getting in on the job! ?

pc1966 · Aug 20, 2021

123 said:
Saw this one on facebook and found it disgusting. Cable tie around the neutrals, seriously like.

How crude!

The hole on the left, really...

pc1966 · Aug 20, 2021

LastManOnline said:
Strangely, it was, nt sticking and "leeching" the pvc like it normally does. Here is how it looked 30 min later. Clean as a whistle, no sign of any heat damage. Good advertisement for the heat dissapation ability of Hagar mcb,s. This afterall is an electric home (electric shower, hob, immersion etc)

Is that a fuse and a MCB in series for the supply?

pc1966 · Aug 21, 2021

Out today helping a friend with some non-electrical stuff. Someone had brought in their own TV and it must be the skankiest work I have personally seen so far. It had not one, but two, joints in the moulded cable adding some T&E (I think?) either to extent it or to repair some damage. Also they could not even find PVC tape to cover it, it looked like masking tape

Forgive my poor photography as I just missed the moulded 13A plug to the left of the lower photo.