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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ipf · Mar 19, 2022

pirate said:
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...

Did they take the roses...........or just remove the flex and lampholders?

philectrical · Mar 19, 2022

I think in places like Germany it's standard to take your kitchen with you when you move, even from rental places.

nicebutdim · Mar 19, 2022

Uless these countries consider a few random units to constitute a kitchen, it's utterly pointless taking something that won't be much use in the new place.

philectrical · Mar 19, 2022

nicebutdim said:
Uless these countries consider a few random units to constitute a kitchen, it's utterly pointless taking something that won't be much use in the new place.

We're talking hob and sink as well, apparently. (Brother in law lives there)

Pretty Mouth · Mar 19, 2022

pc1966 said:
I thought G/Y was explicitly only for CPC use?

Edit: Yes, see 514.4.2

Is this the part of that reg you mean?:

Single-core cables identified by green-and-yellow throughout their length shall only be used as a protective conductor and shall not be overmarked at their terminations, except as permitted by Regulation 514.4.3.

I read this as applying to singles only, and assume that G/Y cores of multicore cables can be oversleeved and repurposed

nicebutdim · Mar 19, 2022

philectrical said:
We're talking hob and sink as well, apparently. (Brother in law lives there)

Renders the old adage 'everything but the kitchen sink' redundant.

JBW175 · Mar 22, 2022

Had an emergency call out this morning, a builder who’s installing a drain chopped through the SWA supplying the garden shed. Knocked out half the supply to the street, DNO engineer arrived promptly and changed one of the fuses down the sub station. Circuit isolated and power restored.

In the builder’s defence, the cable wasn’t buried the correct depth and was just beneath the slabs, but you can clearly see where the cable enters the ground so he should have checked prior to cutting.

Mike Johnson · Mar 22, 2022

Pillock of the fist order.

pc1966 · Mar 22, 2022

JBW175 said:
Had an emergency call out this morning, a builder who’s installing a drain chopped through the SWA supplying the garden shed. Knocked out half the supply to the street, DNO engineer arrived promptly and changed one of the fuses down the sub station. Circuit isolated and power restored.

Are you sure it is a shed supply from the house? Sounds more like chopping the concentric feeding the house to do that!

JBW175 · Mar 22, 2022

pc1966 said:
Are you sure it is a shed supply from the house? Sounds more like chopping the concentric feeding the house to do that!

Yes as I carried out R1R2 and IR testing on the circuit when i’d disconnected it from the board.

Also carried out a Ze, PFC and some RCD testing on the installation once power was restored and all was good.

DNO engineer said he don’t know why the fuse blew down the substation as over 300amps, but he thinks it could have been weakened from other faults in the area.

James · Mar 22, 2022

Good low resistance fault, live to N and PE
bet the steel disk on his diamond wheel looks pretty.

JBW175 · Mar 22, 2022

James said:
Good low resistance fault, live to N and PE
bet the steel disk on his diamond wheel looks pretty.

Yep, the IR results weren't pretty either- 0.02, 0.01 & 0.36 MOhm.

He goes, "i think i've only knicked it"

i said, you've done a little bit more than that mate, you're lucky that RCD kicked in when it did.

nicebutdim · Mar 22, 2022

JBW175 said:
Yep, the IR results weren't pretty either- 0.02, 0.01 & 0.36 MOhm.

He goes, "i think i've only knicked it"

i said, you've done a little bit more than that mate, you're lucky that RCD kicked in when it did.

Another minute and he'd have repaired it with tape.

Mike Johnson · Mar 22, 2022

And that would be masking tape.

Steve T · Mar 23, 2022

Nice professionally made off downlight joint. Couldn't even be bothered to wrap the insulation tape the whole way, and the state of that neutral flex termination.