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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littlespark · Jun 18, 2022

I’m not a fan of mini trunking on wood.
This is awful.

partplonker · Jun 18, 2022

mainline said:
I can't really understand why they didn't gland into the CU rather than leave the single insulation.

Me neither, none of it makes sense. I can only assume that because he used a 20mm knockout and grommet in the bottom of the board that a 10mm with the sheath on wouldn't fit through the hole, so he removed the sheath. Adding another RCD as an isolator when you've just come out of a board off an MCB with RCD protection is baffling, shows a lack of understanding of switchgear and selectivity.

Annoyingly, he hadn't quite left enough on that cable for me to take it into the board directly and for it to reach all the terminals, so I ended up putting a box directly below the CU to join it (and taking the earth through the board instead of it just dangling). Looks a bit neater now.

I should have taken more photos. Bizarrely, in the next room, he clipped that 10mm cable all around the top of the plastered wall just below the ceiling. The one place where trunking would have been an acceptable thing to use and he doesn't, yet he slaps horrible trunking all over the inside of the cabin on wood so the owner now has goo to remove where I've ripped it all out.

(Edit: It's probably not clear from the photo - it's 10mm twin and earth from the board, there's a junction box in the next room where it switches to armoured).

Raptor0014 · Jun 25, 2022

Doing a EICR prior to a CU change and was flummoxed as to why I had a break in continuity on a Ring.

Went round the property checked every single socket. Couldn’t see a problem. Asked customer if they’d had any work done and said nothing electrical no.

So ended up going back this week to spend the day trying to work out where the problem was.

Went up in the loft and was tracing the circuit around and notice there was an unusual diversion down to the airing cupboard.

Checked in there and nothing doing apart from the old switched fused spur for the immersion. Which wasn’t on the ring circuit.

Asked customer where the immersion had gone and they said it had been moved to the back of the utility in an unused alcove as they had a new tank fitted ready for me to install a solar diverter (which they had yet to ask me about).

So thought I’d just go and have a look and found this nicely positioned socket behind the tank, and Sod’s Law was the one that had the break in it.

So 6hrs wasted (3 of which was getting at the socket to rectify the issue) But it killed two birds with one stone as I converted it to a fused spur with flex outlet to run the solar iBoost from and restored the ring continuity.

All I can say is thank god I had the Wera Tool Check Plus as even my stubby slim screwdrivers were two big to get at the screws.

iBoost worked great once installed however. So a happy ending.

DPG · Jun 25, 2022

Raptor0014 said:
Doing a EICR prior to a CU change and was flummoxed as to why I had a break in continuity on a Ring.

Went round the property checked every single socket. Couldn’t see a problem. Asked customer if they’d had any work done and said nothing electrical no.

So ended up going back this week to spend the day trying to work out where the problem was.

Went up in the loft and was tracing the circuit around and notice there was an unusual diversion down to the airing cupboard.

Checked in there and nothing doing apart from the old switched fused spur for the immersion. Which wasn’t on the ring circuit.

Asked customer where the immersion had gone and they said it had been moved to the back of the utility in an unused alcove as they had a new tank fitted ready for me to install a solar diverter (which they had yet to ask me about).

So thought I’d just go and have a look and found this nicely positioned socket behind the tank, and Sod’s Law was the one that had the break in it.

So 6hrs wasted (3 of which was getting at the socket to rectify the issue) But it killed two birds with one stone as I converted it to a fused spur with flex outlet to run the solar iBoost from and restored the ring continuity.

All I can say is thank god I had the Wera Tool Check Plus as even my stubby slim screwdrivers were two big to get at the screws.

iBoost worked great once installed however. So a happy ending.

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You did well getting into that and sorting the connections.

Raptor0014 · Jun 25, 2022

DPG said:
You did well getting into that and sorting the connections.

I wouldn’t do it again. It was only because it was going to save me the hassle of chasing in a cable for the solar iBoost supply. Next time I’ll just either break the ring into two radials and disable the socket. Or, if possible, disable the socket and rejoin the ring in a wago box if I can.

Mike Johnson · Jun 25, 2022

At least it was nice and clean in there, or did you prepared the cupboard for the photograph.

Raptor0014 · Jun 25, 2022

Mike Johnson said:
At least it was nice and clean in there, or did you prepared the cupboard for the photograph.

Ha no, it was in the utility and I’m assuming the customer had cleaned it out before the pipe jockey installed the tank.

nicebutdim · Jun 25, 2022

DPG said:
You did well getting into that and sorting the connections.

Yeah, but how many people did it take to get him back out?

ipf · Jun 25, 2022

Raptor0014 said:
Doing a EICR prior to a CU change and was flummoxed as to why I had a break in continuity on a Ring

Raptor0014 said:
All I can say is thank god I had the Wera Tool Check Plus as even my stubby slim screwdrivers were two big to get at the screws.

Both of them?

Raptor0014 · Jun 25, 2022

ipf said:
Both of them?

I has speak the Queens England since I was a children I’ll have you know.

telectrix · Jun 25, 2022

so did winstink churchmouse but him in the moostrap set byuy them meerkats, katching miggotts.

littlespark · Jun 25, 2022

telectrix said:
so did winstink churchmouse but him in the moostrap set byuy them meerkats, katching miggotts.

For once…. I’m going to have to ask Buzz to translate for a change!

Baddegg · Jun 26, 2022

telectrix said:
so did winstink churchmouse but him in the moostrap set byuy them meerkats, katching miggotts.

Buzz?

ipf · Jun 26, 2022

Raptor0014 said:
I has speak the Queens England since I was a children I’ll have you know.

Wonder if it's cash only jobs ever since...

Mike Johnson · Jun 30, 2022

My near neighbour asked me to have a look at his new LED lights, not both coming on, now in a Wago junction box and working.

Tim Evans · Jun 30, 2022

This is close, but not quite, IP4X

DNO installed cutout, 25mm tails, and yup, the top is just as carefully carved out

littlespark · Jun 30, 2022

Got this photo sent by the Seal Fairy….

“Technically, the seal itself hasn’t been cut”

ipf · Jun 30, 2022

Innovative...........works air con system.

mainline · Jun 30, 2022

Recent Installation of sockets and two ramp supplies, looks like he ran out of swa and decided to use some t&e in tube instead, it's not ideal but instead of a drop to the ramps he decided to add a spur and throw it on the floor into a low socket.

mainline · Jun 30, 2022

This is what I deal with on a regular basis.

Dartlec · Jun 30, 2022

mainline said:
This is what I deal with on a regular basis.

Labelled switches? Luxury!

mainline · Jun 30, 2022

Dartlec said:
Labelled switches? Luxury!

Yes, I often think that when I'm shuffling about in the dusty insulation and rotted dead mice bodies.

ipf · Jun 30, 2022

mainline said:
Yes, I often think that when I'm shuffling about in the dusty insulation and rotted dead mice bodies.

So that's why you're an insect lover.....

Raptor0014 · Jul 4, 2022

Second time in as many weeks I’ve encountered a pipe jockey trying to make my life difficult.

10/10 for ingenuity but I don’t recall that being a recognised method to earth the armour of SWA. In case you can’t see it. They had cut all bar 6 strands and terminated them into the earth terminal on the switched fused spur.

I had to decommission this as it was supplying a workshop running a table saw, pillar drill, lathe, dust extraction system as well as the usual lights and sockets. Funny enough it kept blowing the 13A fuse.

Fortunately there was an unused cooker circuit that I was able to use to supply power to the workshop instead. And I glanded the armour properly!