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[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:

 

[Pete999]

That’s the fibreglass bath bonded then.....View attachment 54533

Wonder if it was proved to be Extraneous???

 

[Baddegg]

Wonder if it was proved to be Extraneous???

Wouldn’t have thought so....plastic feet on a wooden floor (upstairs) with plastic tap tails......I reckon wet pants took and old steel bath out and panicked

 

[Pete999]

Wouldn’t have thought so....plastic feet on a wooden floor (upstairs) with plastic tap tails......I reckon wet pants took and old steel bath out and panicked

Maybe thought he got a belt off the bath only realising later he had smacked his funny bone on the waste pipe.

 

[Baddegg]

Maybe thought he got a belt off the bath only realising later he had smacked his funny bone on the waste pipe.

Probably mate that was leaking as well ?

 

[Pete999]

Probably mate that was leaking as well ?

what he had a water belt then?

 

[Stevie g]

Having my van repaired at garage, went to there toilet, not on the picture but above sink was water heater on plug top. Plug top was in sink.
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Doing periodic on farmers retail complex, started having a good look around to familiarise myself with the complex of small barn retailers, came across this (photo s) went and spoke to owner, he said been through separation and that supply is his ex wife s,

 

[SparkyChick]

So I got a call from an existing client telling me he needed my help. He informed me WPD were there replacing the main fuse because it had blown and then this happened.



Nice reminder of the power of what provides us with a job.

From what I can gather the guys from WPD were called out to a loss of power and found the fuse had blown. When they replaced it, it all kicked off. The board is a Lewden board with what I believe is a 100A MK main switch feeding a 32A MCB that supplied an armoured cable to the garage. They didn't open the small board and I have no idea whether they did any kind of testing but they were kind enough to install the isolator and hand me the fuse when I arrived (along with a stick on seal for it). There was water dripping into the cabinet from the hole where the cables exited, which I'm hoping is just from a dodgy seal along the top edge, but they were speculating that the water had damaged the small board. The cores of the SWA it supplied were covered in soot and I wasn't able to establish whether there was any heat damage to them but around where they entered the bedding they don't look right but there was no visible copper. IR tests on that cable were quite low, not enough to be the cause of that devastation but low enough for me to decline immediate reconnection without further investigation... that and the armour wasn't earthed at the supply.

So, when I get back there to sort out a replacement for that little board, my first stop is going to be the garage board and some extensive tests on the cable. Will let you guys know what I find

 

[James]

I think that 32A breaker might have been the root cause.

breaker either had a loose connection or an internal fault possibly due to water?
melted the casing until the internal parts were able to reach the back plate of the board.

arcing for a while until it took out the main fuse.

then it all set hard with the short now welded to the back plate just waiting to be reconnected.

lots of heat generated when new fuse installed and therefore the subsequent fire.

you can clearly see where it has melted through the metal din rail and back of enclosure.

 

[Strima]

I've seen that before on a voltage regulator, water ingress blew the incoming fuses as the arc tracked between L2 & L3, went with a bit of a pop...

 

[davesparks]

my first stop is going to be the garage board and some extensive tests on the cable. Will let you guys know what I find

Strip the burnt end back and inspect it first, it's most likely just covered in soot rather than damaged.
As James has said the location of the fault is obvious from the chunk missing out if the breaker and the hole in the steel enclosure.

 

[Strima]

Nice tidy installation for a change, oh wait....

Eddies back for Xmas.

Slight damp problem

Covers are so overrated

Terminate the armour, never heard of the like in all my days...

Happy Friday kids!!!

 

[SJD]

Changing a light fitting in a new build today, … seems the ceilings were all spray painted, after the second fix.

 

[Baddegg]

Bit of advice please,do you think this notch is big enough for the 4mm bonding?

 

[telectrix]

Bit of advice please,do you think this notch is big enough for the 4mm bonding?View attachment 55046

that's lateral thinking. sparks has used the notch cut by a wet-pants in the wrong place to save getting his combi drilll off the van.

 

[pirate]

Looking at that pic, SJD, imagine the comments on here when the chap asks how to wire his new ceiling lamp...
"Did you take a pic of the existing connections?"
"no, mate, no point...they're all white!"