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.

mg_smile:

telectrix · Sep 21, 2021

going back tomy earlier days, we once was burning rubbish behing the store ( Rumbelows). wind blew sparks etc. into outhouse which had polystyrene packing in it. caught light. progressed to old dry timbers, whole shop damaged. end of story, the whole shop was renovated bythe insurers cost about £40k. only a month previous owners had received a quote for £15k to replace woodworm damaged timbers which ended up paid for on the fire insurance. (and i never got even a thanks).

Simon47 · Sep 21, 2021

As a side story to the "the building burned down" stories ...
Some time ago a friend of mine was an architect and involved with a major retailer. My friend queried why they weren't fitting sprinklers in the new store she was involved with, to be told that they cost too much in stock damage every time someone knocked a head and let the water out.
Roll forward a relatively short time ... In the space of a couple of months, they had two stores catch fire. Neither had sprinklers, and by the time the fire was put out, there was nothing left but a pile of mangled steelwork that had just collapsed once it got hot enough to lose it's strength.

Cue project to retrofit sprinklers in their other stores ?

ipf · Sep 21, 2021

telectrix said:
going back tomy earlier days, we once was burning rubbish behing the store ( Rumbelows). wind blew sparks etc. into outhouse which had polystyrene packing in it. caught light. progressed to old dry timbers, whole shop damaged. end of story, the whole shop was renovated bythe insurers cost about £40k. only a month previous owners had received a quote for £15k to replace woodworm damaged timbers which ended up paid for on the fire insurance. (and i never got even a thanks).

Still don't know where the 500 smackers in your back pocket came from, then?

littlespark · Sep 21, 2021

Gives me an excuse to repost one of these photos:

my father in laws caravan site, which he sold in 2016 and I’d spent a decade working on.

The cause, again through local gossip-mongers, was an electric heater left on overnight.

GBDamo · Sep 21, 2021

littlespark said:
Gives me an excuse to repost one of these photos:

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my father in laws caravan site, which he sold in 2016 and I’d spent a decade working on.

The cause, again through local gossip-mongers, was an electric heater left on overnight.

That's a really big caravan, what do you tow it with?

littlespark · Sep 21, 2021

GBDamo said:
That's a really big caravan, what do you tow it with?

A really big car

nicebutdim · Sep 21, 2021

With a really long tow bar.

littlespark · Sep 21, 2021

Taken from another group:

I almost had a heart attack when I saw this…

So.. turns out heat and plastic doesn’t mix well.

Mikegh · Sep 21, 2021

Simon47 said:
As a side story to the "the building burned down" stories ...
Some time ago a friend of mine was an architect and involved with a major retailer. My friend queried why they weren't fitting sprinklers in the new store she was involved with, to be told that they cost too much in stock damage every time someone knocked a head and let the water out.
Roll forward a relatively short time ... In the space of a couple of months, they had two stores catch fire. Neither had sprinklers, and by the time the fire was put out, there was nothing left but a pile of mangled steelwork that had just collapsed once it got hot enough to lose it's strength.

Cue project to retrofit sprinklers in their other stores ?

I would have thought sprinklers were perfect for what they do

Is this a problem the heads being knocked ?

James · Sep 21, 2021

Mikegh said:
I would have thought sprinklers were perfect for what they do

Is this a problem the heads being knocked ?

I know a couple of companies that have sprinklers decommissioned because the insurance was cheaper without them.

stock loss cost and likelihood calculations for accidental activation outweighed the total loss cost vs. the likelihood for a real fire.

Mikegh · Sep 21, 2021

I haven't seen too many fires ,mainly at main boards and metering locations

As a poster alluded to previously , there's usually plenty to worry about in a fire situation than the cabling

Mikegh · Sep 21, 2021

James said:
I know a couple of companies that have sprinklers decommissioned because the insurance was cheaper without them.

stock loss cost and likelihood calculations for accidental activation outweighed the total loss cost vs. the likelihood for a real fire.

Hmm well that's interesting

loz2754 · Sep 21, 2021

littlespark said:
Taken from another group:

I almost had a heart attack when I saw this…
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So.. turns out heat and plastic doesn’t mix well.

Must have been hard for the owner to Lego of this set.