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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Welchyboy1 · Sep 24, 2023

few pictures from my recent jobs

Plumber didnt check the other side of the wall before drilling through(had a lucky escape though) and a recent CU change that leaves alot to be desired

DPG · Sep 24, 2023

Can't believe he did that. He must not have even looked at the other side of the wall before drilling. Or a big misjudgement!

Welchyboy1 · Sep 24, 2023

DPG said:
Can't believe he did that. He must not have even looked at the other side of the wall before drilling. Or a big misjudgement!

lol He said his apprentice measured it! He must have realised something was wrong by the depth surely! he actually asked me if i could move it all so he could still put his overflow pipe there, cheek!

timhoward · Sep 24, 2023

Welchyboy1 said:
lol He said his apprentice measured it! He must have realised something was wrong by the depth surely! he actually asked me if i could move it all so he could still put his overflow pipe there, cheek!

I was drilling through the other day and measured extremely carefully to avoid a gate post and a gas pipe. The pilot hole went fine and it came out exactly where I wanted. Then I went up a size and felt the two skins, but then a bit of air and then something 'strange'. I stopped when it was clear this wasn't brick and and went to look.
The builders lad had opened the gate! But the brick I'd put there to keep it closed was now blocking the frame so the gate couldn't close and the drill was in the process of taking a nice little gouge out of the gate. Luckily this wasn't very noticeable as the gate was rotten beyond hope anyway.

LewisM · Sep 24, 2023

Welchyboy1 said:
few pictures from my recent jobs

Plumber didnt check the other side of the wall before drilling through(had a lucky escape though) and a recent CU change that leaves alot to be desired

BG strikes again

littlespark · Sep 24, 2023

there's a picture somewhere on the internet of a drill coming through a wall, through the back of a wardrobe, through a guitar case withing the wardrobe and into the actual guitar which was in the case at the time.

or was that a dream?

loz2754 · Sep 24, 2023

An ex colleague of mine drilled through a wall, straight into a hot water cylinder!
That's why he's an EX colleague.

Simon47 · Sep 24, 2023

loz2754 said:
An ex colleague of mine drilled through a wall, straight into a hot water cylinder!

Got himself in hot water !

But more seriously, can any of us truly say we've never had a drilling mishap ? I certainly have some I'm not admitting to - beyond "they happened". Luckily never did anything expensive.

littlespark · Sep 24, 2023

I keep a short bit of cable on my drill box which was caught as I drilled through a wall… just to remind me of what can happen.

It was a redundant cable, buried in plaster and not in a prescribed zone…. So no idea it was there…. But my SDS made a good twisted mess out of it.

DPG · Sep 26, 2023

Quite impressed that people are already checking out tomorrow's forum messages:

oscar21 · Sep 26, 2023

Had to take over a job from someone else the other day, didn't want to but the client gives us tonnes of work and this was his own house. The other spark is no longer on the scene and I've already been to one of his jobs that had an earth fault so he just disconnected the cpc's out of the circuit to get over it.

So my first port of call was the consumer unit - BG dual RCD, 2 circuits connected down ring and up ring, sockets 2nd fixed and live and some lights 2nd fixed but not powered yet. First test was see if they were rings, neither were. After a bit of investigating, found this in the utility.

Thats why that circuits not a ring then, live ends. Onto the upstairs sockets and quickly found this.

That was after my temp fix, was the same as the utility before I touched it. 3rd cable was a spur to a socket on the floor below that wasn't working.

I also found this that was live. Not touched anything, that's how I came across it.

So apart from the various death traps the place also looked like this.

not unique to this job but why do so many sparks have to cut and patch so much plaster work after its all been done, apparently he forgot to fit loads of stuff that the client had asked for.

Mike Johnson · Sep 26, 2023

Usually happens the other way around, electrician finishes the second fix and client asks can you just fit another --- number of sockets in these rooms.

7029 dave · Sep 28, 2023

Would like to see how this copper pipe is glanded to the 20A FCU any solid earth continuity?

mainline · Sep 28, 2023

7029 dave said:
Would like to see how this copper pipe is glanded to the 20A FCU any solid earth continuity?

Obviously, a plumber as well as a spark

Looks rubbish.

James · Sep 28, 2023

Could be double insulated cable inside, if so, do you think there is a requirement for the pipe to be bonded?

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