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..

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[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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Raptor0014 · Nov 15, 2021

Dartlec said:
Quick refurb of a bathroom before reboarding - a story in 5 pictures:

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I guess it was in the safe zone at least ?

They obviously rewired the lights at some point without bothering to touch the ceiling, so ran the cabling around the top of the wall and bonded it in place then tiled over - so have to spend tomorrow rewiring the bathroom completely....

That's black sleeving on the cpc btw

That’s got to be a DIY job surely!

Dartlec · Nov 15, 2021

Raptor0014 said:
That’s got to be a DIY job surely!

Well, definitely a DIY job, though the person may have been paid for it!

It's a landlord's property - still had fuse wire fuse box that I replaced earlier this year after EICR - so wouldn't be surprised if it was a previous bathroom fitter who did it, since the new cabling is >2006 and I doubt it was the tenants who did it themselves...

Didn't pick this up on the EICR since it was all tiled over.

Dustydazzler · Nov 16, 2021

Was it a flat roof above the bathroom ? I often find JBs buried in walls or behind tiles when the access above is restricted ...

Dartlec · Nov 16, 2021

Dustydazzler said:
Was it a flat roof above the bathroom ? I often find JBs buried in walls or behind tiles when the access above is restricted ...

ding ding! Yes it was - clearly whoever did it thought they'd rather not touch the ceiling so used the walls. Can't believe it was the best/only option though...

To be fair there was enough bonding/cement in there to ensure nothing moved even a mm - most of the damage was in getting it out to work out what the hell was going on....

timhoward · Nov 16, 2021

"Can you tidy this up a bit please?"

Raptor0014 · Nov 17, 2021

Awesome workmanship here. ??‍

The craftsmanship to get the drawer unit frame to sit over a unswitched fused spur leaving no access is something to behold. And then the addition of the switched fused spur for some exterior lights with the exposed T&E is a nice touch.

Not only is this in a daft place. If the plugs are used the drawers don’t close properly.

The mind boggles sometimes. I’d love to know what they were smoking when they ‘designed’ this.

Dustydazzler · Nov 17, 2021

That is builders wiring all day long

pirate · Nov 21, 2021

pirate · Nov 21, 2021

Simple JB, supplies 4 outside lights. Not daisy-chained, just spidered off. L is a t&e with the N cut off, N is t&e from another JB with L cut off, and all the CPCs terminated, but with a lack of sleeveing. Took me a while to suss this out, but all working fine now. ..

pc1966 · Nov 21, 2021

A special kind of fail. Not following the old tradition of mounting a socket in the skirting board, they mounted it in the wall. But somehow still managed to still have it in the skirting board to the extent that moulded plugs with any form of strain relief won't fit.

nicebutdim · Nov 21, 2021

There was one in my parents house, surface mounted and tight to the carpet.

Dustydazzler · Nov 21, 2021

I have seen lots of sockets mounted upside down so the plugtop flex isn't squashed

littlespark · Nov 21, 2021

That looks like the socket was there first and they've introduced "period" style skirting boards and never thought of the heights.

Dustydazzler · Nov 21, 2021

littlespark said:
That looks like the socket was there first and they've introduced "period" style skirting boards and never thought of the heights.

it would have taken a sparks 45mins to move that socket up 3 inches , but no the builder butchers the skirting board instead ?

James · Nov 21, 2021

Dustydazzler said:
it would have taken a sparks 45mins to move that socket up 3 inches , but no the builder butchers the skirting board instead ?

Can just hear the customer wailing “HOW MUCH” but you have only used £2 worth of cable.

Dustydazzler · Nov 21, 2021

James said:
Can just hear the customer wailing “HOW MUCH” but you have only used £2 worth of cable.

Yet they would have had no complaints paying a grand to move 2 inches of gas pipe

nicebutdim · Nov 21, 2021

Gas and water seem to frighten people more than electricity.

Doomed · Nov 21, 2021

Yes that is either 1mm or 1.5mm in the socket, no we won't put in a spur for a 2KW water heater

Dustydazzler · Nov 21, 2021

That is a typical pub / take away install if I ever saw one

pc1966 · Nov 21, 2021

Dustydazzler said:
I have seen lots of sockets mounted upside down so the plugtop flex isn't squashed

With double sockets you can't really win as some wall-wart power units go up the way to avoid the too-low traditional mounting arrangements.

Singles you can do sideways to work, but really its a nasty legacy of (I presume) avoiding putting sockets in lath and plaster walls and using the board as at least a stable mounting base.

pc1966 · Nov 21, 2021

littlespark said:
That looks like the socket was there first and they've introduced "period" style skirting boards and never thought of the heights.

That almost makes more sense. For a certain definition of "sense".

But if the socket was there first, why so low? The skirting board is only about 20cm high.

Mikegh · Nov 22, 2021

Commercial Kitchens

Nightmare for dodgy electrical work.
Ring someone different everytime there's a breakdown or they need something changing, usually don't care who it is.

BiddeldyBwah · Nov 22, 2021

timhoward said:
"Can you tidy this up a bit please?"
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Is it just me but i don't see the problem there..

timhoward · Nov 22, 2021

BiddeldyBwah said:
Is it just me but i don't see the problem there..

Yeah not too obvious from photo.
Singles in flexible conduit which crosses other conduit, and serious lack of saddles, also 3 routes to same place. 4 circuits running through EM light too.
Basically it couldn’t be tidied up without removing most of it and starting again.

BiddeldyBwah · Nov 22, 2021

timhoward said:
Yeah not too obvious from photo.
Singles in flexible conduit which crosses other conduit, and serious lack of saddles, also 3 routes to same place. 4 circuits running through EM light too.
Basically it couldn’t be tidied up without removing most of it and starting again.

Ahh i see thanks for the heads up, always good to be pointed towards details that most miss.