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!

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