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.

mg_smile:

Mike Johnson · Sep 17, 2022

Or even vertically by the side of the RWP and horizontally under the widow, there may not be enough cable, but nothing a nice neat 45deg angle under the window would not cure and look much neater.

Raptor0014 · Sep 22, 2022

Quote from the owner - “It’s ok, it’s outside so nobody touches it”

Welchyboy1 · Sep 22, 2022

A few pictures from my phone of past jobs

Just for clarity, the 3 brown 16mm singles taped up coming out of the trunking are fed from the crappy distributuion board pictured,supplied from on the top right Triple pole breaker, 63A, three phase 400V

, trunking was not earthed, went to another moody three phase board the other side of the warehouse about 40 meters away, pretty much taped up their entire length, must have took most of the day taping them all together, they were joined with 30A connector blocks about 4 times throughout the run

Raptor0014 · Sep 22, 2022

Welchyboy1 said:
A few pictures from my phone of past jobs

Just for clarity, the 3 brown 16mm singles taped up coming out of the trunking are fed from the crappy distributuion board pictured,supplied from on the top right Triple pole breaker, 63A, three phase 400V , trunking was not earthed, went to another moody three phase board the other side of the warehouse about 40 meters away, pretty much taped up their entire length, must have took most of the day taping them all together, they were joined with 30A connector blocks about 4 times throughout the run

Did you get the ‘it works ok

’ response when you pointed it out?

Welchyboy1 · Sep 22, 2022

Raptor0014 said:
Did you get the ‘it works ok ’ response when you pointed it out?

Definatly a contender for the longest ever EICR observations list!

Raptor0014 · Sep 23, 2022

And this weeks award for the most ridiculously placed consumer unit and grouted in shower isolation switch goes to…

The hidden in the top corner of a built in wardrobe.

I do wonder what some people think when they do stuff like this.

westward10 · Sep 23, 2022

Seems like someone mislaid some of the linking kit.

nicebutdim · Sep 23, 2022

Raptor0014 said:
And this weeks award for the most ridiculously placed consumer unit and grouted in shower isolation switch goes to…

The hidden in the top corner of a built in wardrobe.

I do wonder what some people think when they do stuff like this.

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One saving grace being the reasonably decent isolator.

Aaron b · Sep 23, 2022

Raptor0014 said:
And this weeks award for the most ridiculously placed consumer unit and grouted in shower isolation switch goes to…

The hidden in the top corner of a built in wardrobe.

I do wonder what some people think when they do stuff like this.

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And how do they end up with chint Hager and wylex?

Raptor0014 · Sep 23, 2022

Aaron b said:
And how do they end up with chint Hager and

Guess it was mix of what was left on the van on a Friday afternoon

littlespark · Sep 23, 2022

I wish I hadn’t taken the cover off now….

New customer. Lighting fault, breaker would reset, 4 or 5 times… then wouldn’t reset at all, and tripped with a crack.
Boiler is also off this lighting circuit so I’ve ran a temp supply for that just now.

Reading 5Mohms and rising on L-E and N-E.
Suspect circuit is second from left and disconnected for now.

Other issues with board include inner cores of flex on left most breaker supplying bell transformer (no bell) into exposed connector block. Took that out straight away.

There’s so much excess copper on show.. and no idea with the black going into a breaker.
Neutrals don’t correspond with lines and this was supposedly rewired in 2002.

I’ll get all the faults sorted, then get some rcbo’s for it.

pirate · Sep 24, 2022

pirate · Sep 24, 2022

This might confuse a DIYer...either the label is on upside down, or the cables are reversed on the tray...
It works though, now!
I apologise for the state of the ferrules, they were re-done once I had the unit running.

littlespark · Sep 24, 2022

So bad you posted the image twice.

pirate · Sep 24, 2022

Like New York, so good they named it twice!
Listen, I'm hopeless with posting stuff, so My apologies!

nicebutdim · Sep 24, 2022

pirate said:
This might confuse a DIYer...either the label is on upside down, or the cables are reversed on the tray...
It works though, now!
I apologise for the state of the ferrules, they were re-done once I had the unit running.

I've seen this with cheap lights bought from Amazon, one of which stated on its product page that blue was line and brown was neutral. That one was handed to the guy that bought it, with clear instructions about what he could do with it.

pirate · Sep 24, 2022

Indeed, @nicebutdim
I had an accessory recently where the wiring instructions were written step-by-step, and there were illustrations too...problem was that they conflicted. OK for me to sort out what was what, but anyone following the diagram would end up with a blown timeclock. I contacted the manufacturers, they thanked me for being in touch, and said they would review things...
Aye, right...as we say in Scotland.

Mike Johnson · Sep 24, 2022

Tom Jones greatest hits perhaps?

JBW175 · Sep 26, 2022

Bathroom light was wired directly into the shower isolator. Neutral burnt out and insulation shot on shower circuit. 40 year old board with no RCD protection, so that’s added to the quote too.

Baddegg · Sep 26, 2022

JBW175 said:
Bathroom light was wired directly into the shower isolator. Neutral burnt out and insulation shot on shower circuit. 40 year old board with no RCD protection, so that’s added to the quote too.

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At first glance after 2 Guinness I thought that lower cable was under water!

Raptor0014 · Sep 27, 2022

Nice cable management. I especially like the attention to detail on the glanding for the SWA……

Raptor0014 · Sep 28, 2022

Installing some outside sockets today and notice that their EV charge point was fed with ordinary SWA. It piqued my curiosity as I also do EV charge points and know they have to have active load management. Along with OCPD & RCD protection, though some are now starting to come with both 6mA DC & 30mA protection built in. The charge point installed has neither OCPD or 30mA protection built in. Just 6mA DC.

As there was no seperate cable for the CT clamp and they weren’t using EV ultra/Hyper Connect I quizzed the owner on where the supply for the charge point was.

Now there are a number of plethora of ‘issues’ here.

But I have circled the supply to the EV charge point. The main cutout rating is also only 60A.

Funny enough they didn’t have a certificate for it and I’m betting the DNO haven’t been informed.

Customer tried to get hold of installer whilst I was there but the no. was switched off. So I’ve left him with all the details of how it should be done. So he can quiz the installer. He asked if I could rectify it all which I said of course. But he should approach the installer first as they should rectify it FoC.