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:

 

[telectrix]

top pic next to the attempted arson. are those blacks charred? if so looks like the wet-pants is the culprit.

 

[SparkyChick]

top pic next to the attempted arson. are those blacks charred? if so looks like the wet-pants is the culprit.

Yes, they are nice and crispy and actually have a lovely stylish moulding in the insulation where they've sat on the pipe whilst it/they were still hot

 

[ipf]

View attachment 47251 F%^& where the timber is! Luxna say it should be 75mm from timber, not in it!
And that's 'allegedly' a MF JB in the back ground

I found the same once...…….with another just like it in the same joist about 5ft away.

 

[westward10]

Slight corrosion to a socket back box. Cpcs are totally gone and only the lines are still connected and yes it is live.

 

[westward10]

Another view.

 

[DPG]

That's bad damp that.

 

[westward10]

The back box is all but gone. Wagoed the conductors which were still there and a couple of layers of heat shrink.

 

[Rpa07]

So got called out today... cooker circuit tripping the RCD. Turns out, it's cooker, sockets and extractor hood on a 16A breaker, with washing machine on one, gas hob, electric oven.

Get's it down to a L-E short on the cable from the CU to the SFCU that has the hob and oven connected to it, yes... both of them on one. Turns out there are two sets of cables in the conduit, great I think, pull some slack through and use the other L... except that has a L-E short as well. Ok, use the neutral and sleeve it... Couldn't get any movement on it and it's snipped off close to the wall at the far end... nightmare.

But check out this quality work...

Lovely bit of arson there from a gas fitter.
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The conclusion I've drawn is (because apparently the RCD tripping has been going on for a while getting more and more frequent) is that some plum has hammered/damaged the conduit and consequently the cables and it's finally given up. Would have been grand if I could have pulled the slack through, but as it is got to run a new cable and make it safe. What a bloody lash up.

Looks quite sticky in there Sparkychick, I don’t like sticky kitchens!

 

[westward10]

2'' 12s yep that should fix it.

 

[FatAlan]

Is that going to take a triple gang line in and out intermediate dimmer switch?

 

[FatAlan]

Deleted. Too many beers. Dry January has just been subject to a monsoon

 

[Wilko]

2'' 12s yep that should fix it.View attachment 47256

He's just checking for any cables in walls less than 50mm

 

[johnduffell]

2'' 12s yep that should fix

That's no good i use 10 inch bolts right through to the other side of the wall
Does mean you can see where the sockets are from outside the house

 

[Wilko]

Here's my burnt offering for today. Owner used this outlet to charge his car. One side has melted? No worries ! That's why it's a double .

 

[GBDamo]

top pic next to the attempted arson. are those blacks charred? if so looks like the wet-pants is the culprit.

Couldn't be arsed to go to the van to get a heat mat.

I've watched them do this kind of stupidity, to suggest they use a heat mat is to question their very being, a proper existential crisis.

usually ends with wetpant toys thrown to the four corners.