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.

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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JBW175 · Mar 8, 2022

Dustydazzler said:
Its amazing the amount of old crap that sells on Ebay and other selling sites...

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Also includes the following MCBs :-. 1 x 6A - BG B6 CUMB6. 1 x 32A - BG B32 CUMB32.

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nicebutdim said:
You'd be amazed - take a look at what sells on ebay.

I shouldn’t be surprised seeing all that really.

I once had a landlord approach me mid EICR with a pre 17th amendment 3 board, and ask if I could use it for remedials to keep costs down.

freddo · Mar 8, 2022

I hate self adhesive mini trunking especially when it is shoddily installed and not even needed.

I'm quite proud of my filling and painting though!

I wish I'd taken a before photo. Carrying on from that other thread I used easy fill to replace the damaged skim and plaster and to repair a hole in the ceiling I cut to fish the cables down to the switch trunking, then after sanding a small bead of caulk in all the corners between walls and walls and ceiling. 2 coats of paint after.

Simon47 · Mar 8, 2022

littlespark said:
Saw this on another group, and thought it fits here....

Took me a second to realise what had actually happened...

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Looks to me like it's been screwed to the plasterboard and it's given way. Possibly having a row of holes in the board has created a weakness that's failed. Funnily enough, was watching Shawn the Sheep (ah the joys of grand kids in the house, well that's my excuse), an episode involving a 3D TV just the other day - had a similar theme !
it does remind me of a job I did a good few years ago now. We had an estate agent for a client (did all their IT and "stuff"), and they were setting up a new branch. So loads of stuff ordered, including 3 big TVs to use and displays. A couple of them were fairly easy - very expensive bits of pipe (would probably have been a fraction of the price to pop round to the motor factors, buy some lengths of exhaust pipe, and a can of black paint) and brackets, and a bit of ply screwed through the ceiling for a top support (bottom end screwed to the floor).
But one of them, on a "swivel about" bracket like that, fixed to the wall. Oh boy, was that "interesting" - cobble and lime mortar

I got it fixed, but TBH was never 100% sure about it. But it did survive until a couple of years later they decided that branch wasn't working and we got to take it all out again - I was relieved when I got that telly down.

littlespark · Mar 8, 2022

Some people don’t realise the extra forces caused on one of those sticking-out-from-the-wall type brackets compared to the flat ones.

How did we ever fix CRT tv brackets to the wall, I’ll never know

Simon47 · Mar 8, 2022

littlespark said:
Some people don’t realise the extra forces caused on one of those sticking-out-from-the-wall type brackets compared to the flat ones.

Yeah, a lot of tension in those top screws.

littlespark said:
How did we ever fix CRT tv brackets to the wall, I’ll never know

With a tall fixing plate and either lots of screws or big screws. I've sometimes been accused of "over engineering" things - but surely you should always assume some 20 stone person is going to "test" your workmanship

I sometimes think that my fixings won't fail, but what about what they are fixed to ?

I've seen pictures of a similar failure on a bigger scale, e.g. :

From Marton grandad rescued as carport collapsed

ipf · Mar 8, 2022

Simon47 said:
Yeah, a lot of tension in those top screws.

With a tall fixing plate and either lots of screws or big screws. I've sometimes been accused of "over engineering" things - but surely you should always assume some 20 stone person is going to "test" your workmanship I sometimes think that my fixings won't fail, but what about what they are fixed to ?

I've seen pictures of a similar failure on a bigger scale, e.g. :

From Marton grandad rescued as carport collapsed

That nob's in a bit of a bad way......!!!!!!

Mike Johnson · Mar 9, 2022

Bolt failure, best viewed full screen, don't know why its on twice?

littlespark · Mar 9, 2022

Back in the 90’s I was on a team fitting storage heaters… no wiring involved, that was a different team… I was just on building and connecting.
Anyway…. There was an issue where we were all called into the office as there had been an incident.
We were getting dragged over the coals because some kid had pulled a heater off the wall.
This was before the days of instant photographs on smartphones, so it took a while for the truth to come out.

Yes, the heater had come away from the wall, but so had the wall…. The “kid” was a fairly hefty older teenager, the type whose house was full of holes in walls, doors etc where he’d punched out his frustration.

He had deliberately rocked and pulled the heater until it came away…. Bringing some brick with it in the process.

Good old chocolate block walls

telectrix · Mar 9, 2022

Simon47 said:
Yeah, a lot of tension in those top screws.

With a tall fixing plate and either lots of screws or big screws. I've sometimes been accused of "over engineering" things - but surely you should always assume some 20 stone person is going to "test" your workmanship I sometimes think that my fixings won't fail, but what about what they are fixed to ?

I've seen pictures of a similar failure on a bigger scale, e.g. :

From Marton grandad rescued as carport collapsed

vorsprung durch techsplatt.

Raptor0014 · Mar 9, 2022

Went to look at a job today.

Lady got in touch as having work done and builders have had their ‘electrician’ in to sort the work out ready for a new kitchen.

All apparently done last year but they won’t come back now and have not given her any certificates for any of the work. I can’t think why….

Nice...

Pretty sure that's not the intended use of that pattress.

Bare copper showing through on the conductor. Not sure what they have done apart from not done a deep enough chase, not use cable clips correctly and/or used capping to protect.

Lovely use of connector blocks and maintenance free enclosure for the cupboard lights...

Cooker switch feeding a 4.5kw inbuilt oven and grille fed from the 13a isolator next to the socket

Dustydazzler · Mar 9, 2022

Typical builders wiring , see this all the time

Simon47 · Mar 10, 2022

Mike Johnson said:
Bolt failure, best viewed full screen, don't know why its on twice?
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Ooh, I bet the lawyers and insurers were/will be arguing about that for a long time. Hope the civil engineer who designed the retaining system had good liability insurance as I bet he'd be at the front of the queue for a reaming.

Mike Johnson · Mar 10, 2022

The whole wall was undermined, that was definitely not in the Engineers method statement, the cascade failure is vertical.

freddo · Mar 12, 2022

More rubbish heating wiring, conductors falling out of terminals, copper exposed no cord grips etc. Was wired incorrectly so you couldn't have heating on the ground floor unless the first floor or cylinder were calling for heat.

Also saw this in the WC where I was working on Friday and couldn't help but laugh.

Raptor0014 · Mar 12, 2022

freddo said:
More rubbish heating wiring, conductors falling out of terminals, copper exposed no cord grips etc. Was wired incorrectly so you couldn't have heating on the ground floor unless the first floor or cylinder were calling for heat.View attachment 95982

Also saw this in the WC where I was working on Friday and couldn't help but laugh.

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I hate finding plumbers wiring for heating systems. Took me 4hrs to fix one bodge like that once and get it all into a proper wago wiring centre.

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