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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. :eek:mg_smile:

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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.
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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)
 

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

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That's pretty tidy.
But speaking as someone who's installed a few network points over the years, it really pees me off when I've gone to great lengths to keep the network cabling separate from mains wiring - only to find the ****ing sparkies have gone and mixed there's in with mine ?
 
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Simon47 said:
That's pretty tidy.
But speaking as someone who's installed a few network points over the years, it really pees me off when I've gone to great lengths to keep the network cabling separate from mains wiring - only to find the ****ing sparkies have gone and mixed there's in with mine ?
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I've always found it the other way round tbh

Network and alarm guys piggybacking on the electrical installation and paralleling with mains cabling
 
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Been on a second fix today went to connect the outside lights up and found a dead short neutral to earth, though it may be the fitting but alas no it was the Plaster boarder using 3inch screws for 12mm boards!?
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Had to move half a bedroom to find the spot, then measured where it was above and used a magnet to find the screw and remove it. I had to get it out to get the old cable out and new one back in! I love plasterers at the moment as you can probably imagine!?
 
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