Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

[Darkwood]

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.



I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. mg_smile:

 

[LabourForApprenticeship]

Unfortunately this is very typical penny pinching , I have done new builds where you would be handed box of Stuff to do a job.
No blue sleeve , no brown sleeve , no grommets , no nothing.
Just told don’t bother with any of that stuff and just chuck it in.
I have very often supplied my own grommets and sleeve just to feel better how I leave the job.

These people are getting million pound contracts... awful practices. Need reporting tbh. I wouldn't want another glenfell incident on my conscience.
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That last photo is a looped neutral, not a switchwire without brown sleeving. Or were you showing us a loose connection?

The cpc's should have been connected to the metal backbox. Why waste money on a bit of choc block connector when the box has one already there.

Showing loose connection. Board was live and signed off

 

[Dustydazzler]

Is that a loop terminal for the neutrals ?

 

[freddo]

Backbox not earthed either?

 

[ipf]

Is that a loop terminal for the neutrals ?

Well your common is your loop for lives.
Not seen those, though.
Looks like it's just being used as a one gang one way.
The back box should be earthed....just lazy.

 

[westward10]

The switch is poorly marked the Hager ones have an N terminal. I am pretty sure that Loop terminal is for the neutrals.

 

[sarky spark]

A tad beyond repair.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Was that still live...?

 

[telectrix]

if it is, it's close to death. that box looks like my lungs after 60 years of smokes.

 

[Pharlo]

wouldn`t want to be turning that iso switch

 

[littlespark]

That’s it’s IP rating well compromised!

 

[sarky spark]

was still live, about 2.8M above the ground in a publicly accessible place.

 

[westward10]

I think that is one of the best corrosion damage pics I have seen where everything is still in situ.

 

[Dustydazzler]

I’m not sure what’s more concerning then , the risk of shock or risk of tetanus

 

[FatAlan]

A tad beyond repair.

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Back in the UK’s pre EU days all Leyland and Dagenham made cars used to look like that after a couple of years. Good thing is there are probably legions of 70 pluses out there who are dab hands with wire brushes and fibreglass who could patch that up in no time.

 

[telectrix]

give it to Fuzz Townshend of car sos. he'll have a new box welded up and sprayed in 10 minutes.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Or just get a chippy to box it in with some MDF , out of site out of mind...

 

[static zap]

Corroded SWA. Rotted-out-Bottom.
Did make me think about redundancy of banjos with earthed tails -- If any armour is actually left !

 

[picturevalve]

was still live, about 2.8M above the ground in a publicly accessible place.

Is that 2.8 Meg?

 

[freddo]

Presumably as the earthed metal disappears the insulation readings to earth go up!

 

[DPG]

Is that 2.8 Meg?

With a name like picturevalve, I bet you're an ex TV repairer.

 

[picturevalve]

Presumably as the earthed metal disappears the insulation readings to earth go up!

I was thinking it was probably very damp.
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With a name like picturevalve, I bet you're an ex TV repairer.

No, but I recall the jokes around the time, no picture it's probably the picture valve. Later used for transistorised tv's, also. I repair most things these days.

 

[Baddegg]

Must’ve run out of terminal blocks...

 

[Dustydazzler]

Pretty standard that... see lots of old metal fittings where the fixing screw is used to park the earths

 

[Baddegg]

Posted this before in another thread I think.....

 

[Fuzebox]

And my introduction to the forum starts with a Yorkshire Housing property. This was a consumer unit in a house whose tenant was a disabled individual. They requested a new shower room be fitted with a power shower by YH and the result was this loose neutral.

I was rather concerned it took YH one whole week to come and replace the board and never advised the tenant not to use the shower at a minimum. They were even sent these photos. Obviously I advised against using shower and associated circuits where possible, though it wasn't up to me to fix anything as I was there installing CCTV.


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and then there's the roofer who decided to just destroy the live light fittings. He suggested the owner got a sparky out to reinstall them! ?
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and finally the builder who built his own house and did all his own electrics...