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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JBW175 · Mar 18, 2022

Dustydazzler said:
Did the home owner / tenant take the old light down ? the masking tape would suggest they did

She’s just moved in, hence the inspection. The previous owners removed the cabinet that was there and left it like that when they moved out.

Dustydazzler · Mar 18, 2022

Makes you laugh really how some people can move out and just leave live wires hanging out of a wall

Raptor0014 · Mar 18, 2022

Thankfully this is only a phone cable. But the top class cable join did amuse me.

littlespark · Mar 18, 2022

JBW175 said:
She’s just moved in, hence the inspection. The previous owners removed the cabinet that was there and left it like that when they moved out.

I’d be p155ed off if something fixed was removed from a house I was buying…
Normally “sold as seen”.

Even more p155ed if they had left something dangerous like this.

Dustydazzler · Mar 18, 2022

littlespark said:
I’d be p155ed off if something fixed was removed from a house I was buying…
Normally “sold as seen”.

Even more p155ed if they had left something dangerous like this.

I have moved house several times and my solicitor always told us if we took any pictures or shelves down etc to make good and paint etc
But other people don't give a sh!t , I have moved into houses where the people have caused untold damages in the moving out process like big old holes in the plaster board and badly scratched up flooring from dragging furniture around.
Some people are animals and simply don't give a sh!t

littlespark · Mar 18, 2022

It comes under “fixtures and fittings” surely.
Freestanding furniture, you take away…. Screwed to the wall bookcase etc, leave it.

JBW175 · Mar 18, 2022

littlespark said:
I’d be p155ed off if something fixed was removed from a house I was buying…
Normally “sold as seen”.

Even more p155ed if they had left something dangerous like this.

Same here, to leave it just flapping around like that is damned right dangerous.

Although I think she’s more relieved that I’ll only be quoting her for a days work to rectify the C2’s that were picked up; and not a rewire as that’s what she was worried about.

It’s no wonder the previous owners didn’t want to let her get an inspection done prior to completion.

Dustydazzler · Mar 18, 2022

littlespark said:
It comes under “fixtures and fittings” surely.
Freestanding furniture, you take away…. Screwed to the wall bookcase etc, leave it.

They are allowed to remove certain fixtures and fitting if they tell you in advance , things like shelves , mirrors and bathroom wall cabinets can be taken so long as the damages are 'made good'

Mike Johnson · Mar 18, 2022

Ha Ha, try France guys, it was not unusual for those moving out to take all the kitchen cupboards, built in meant nothing, they would also take the light switches, sockets and pendant lights, although not as common now days, but was the norm not so long ago.

nicebutdim · Mar 18, 2022

Mike Johnson said:
Ha Ha, try France guys, it was not unusual for those moving out to take all the kitchen cupboards, built in meant nothing, they would also take the light switches, sockets and pendant lights, although not as common now days, but was the norm not so long ago.

Good to know if I ever think about buying a ~~bare shell~~ house in France

littlespark · Mar 18, 2022

You see on tv tenants leaving a property and taking away the copper pipes from under the floor, and leaving whatever they had bypassing the meter for their horticulture project in the loft.

Simon47 · Mar 18, 2022

littlespark said:
I’d be p155ed off if something fixed was removed from a house I was buying…
Normally “sold as seen”.

Even more p155ed if they had left something dangerous like this.

littlespark said:
It comes under “fixtures and fittings” surely.
Freestanding furniture, you take away…. Screwed to the wall bookcase etc, leave it.

Nah, when you sell a house you'll normally be asked to fill in two forms - from memory TA6 and TA10 are the ones normally used.
One describes the property - who owns the fences, whether it's freehold or leasehold, if there's been any of various sorts of problems, if there's been notifiable works (they don't say that, they ask if there's been electrical works since 2005, if there's been new windows, that sort of thing). The other lists the fixtures and fittings - room by room - and you have to specify what is being left and what is being taken. These form the basis for the contract - i.e. they are legal documents.
So, if in this form they'd said that they were taking the cabinet then that OK. If they didn't, then there's a breach of contract and that's serious.

IIRC the notes to the forms do say that if you remove a ceiling light then you should leave a standard pendant - and electrics should be left in a safe condition.

freddo · Mar 18, 2022

When a relative moved house the previous occupants took all sorts of things. They removed all the lightbulbs, including the ones in the outside lights, fridge and cooker hood. They removed the mains smoke alarms leaving the wiring hanging and they took the lock cylinders from the 2 back doors!

Andrew Hunter · Mar 18, 2022

Darkwood said:
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.

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I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. mg_smile:

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Automatic fire detection and extinguisher

pirate · Mar 19, 2022

I recall a dispute many years ago when the seller of a house removed the garden! Yup, they took the turf, all the plants and specimen trees, slabs and decking...