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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. :eek:mg_smile:

[ElectriciansForums.net] Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!
 
Customer put a complaint in. Apparently someone came out from BG and said the meter monkey did the best job they could and they do not use trunking...! Customer not happy with that response and apparently they are gonna sort it now. I should be getting a board change and bonding job out of it so happy days....and there's even an isolator fitted which is nice!

The slight irony is that the clips are actually pretty straight and aligned. So duck knows why the tails were not attempted to be straightened out.
 
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Customer put a complaint in. Apparently someone came out from BG and said the meter monkey did the best job they could and they do not use trunking...! Customer not happy with that response and apparently they are gonna sort it now. I should be getting a board change and bonding job out of it so happy days....and there's even an isolator fitted which is nice!

The slight irony is that the clips are actually pretty straight and aligned. So duck knows why the tails were not attempted to be straightened out.


Got to totally disagree on that, the top cleats have a gap between them, the spacing height between sets of cleats isn't the same by some margin, just because the screws may follow a nearly verticle plane doesn't excuse it, its as rough as you can get and deffo' not done by a trained professional. The true Irony here is I regularly see DIY work to a better standard.
 
Got to totally disagree on that, the top cleats have a gap between them, the spacing height between sets of cleats isn't the same by some margin, just because the screws may follow a nearly verticle plane doesn't excuse it, its as rough as you can get and deffo' not done by a trained professional. The true Irony here is I regularly see DIY work to a better standard.

It is rough DW, no dispute. Although the cleats are not perfect they are 100% better, in comparision, to the insanely meandering snaking tails. Kinda reminds me of the signature line of someone on the IET forum; knotted cable makes lumpy lektrik....or something like that!
 
So I haven't got any pictures yet, but I thought I'd share with you folks about my visit to an unfinished job.

My mate has been doing some tiling in a cottage out in the sticks not far from where we both live. The builder contracted to do all the structural works including the electrics has done a bunk and left the property owners in a bit of a pickle. Desperate to get the job finished as they are soon to be moving in, my mate (ex friend now lol) suggested I go take a look at finishing the electrics off. As a rule I wouldn't get involved in this sort of thing but the folks are quite desperate and my mate felt a bit sorry for them so I agreed to nip over today and take a look.

On the phone they explained that the majority of the install was complete and that it just needed some second fixing to complete the job.
As soon as I walked through the door my suspicions were raised as there were live wires left hanging out of back boxes!
" full rewire, as in complete new installation?" I asked the owner " yep" he replied "that is what we agreed with the building contractor"

This is a list of just a few things I found on a quick visual:-
1. No main earthbonding installed to incoming metal services
2. Mixed wiring colours, showing clear evidence that existing old wiring had been re-used
3. 2 way lighting circuit with both switches hanging off the walls because there were no back boxes installed to fix them to
4. The same 2 way lighting circuit installed in T&E using the cpc as the common conductor.
5. Bathroom light fitting installed directly over a shower/bath using a standard bayonet fitting hanging off the ceiling with what looked like a dozen cables jammed into it.
6. Cooker circuit wired directly into the appliance with no means of local isolation.
7. Cables run down and across walls all over the place with no form of mechanical protection.
8. Old j.b's re-used all over the place
9. No lid on a j.b exposing a very poorly terminated junction with the cpc's just twisted together and un-sheaved.
10. SWA poorly installed and terminated which supplies an out building.

The list I'm sure will go on, but at this point I isolated the main supply and advised the owners that they should get a thorough investigation done and that they may face a complete re-install.

They have asked me to do some further investigation (which I've agreed to do early in the week) to determine what if anything can be salvaged.
 
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So I haven't got any pictures yet, but I thought I'd share with you folks about my visit to an unfinished job.

My mate has been doing some tiling in a cottage out in the sticks not far from where we both live. The builder contracted to do all the structural works including the electrics has done a bunk and left the property owners in a bit of a pickle. Desperate to get the job finished as they are soon to be moving in, my mate (ex friend now lol) suggested I go take a look at finishing the electrics off. As a rule I wouldn't get involved in this sort of thing but the folks are quite desperate and my mate felt a bit sorry for them so I agreed to nip over today and take a look.

On the phone they explained that the majority of the install was complete and that it just needed some second fixing to complete the job.
As soon as I walked through the door my suspicions were raised as there were live wires left hanging out of back boxes!
" full rewire, as in complete new installation?" I asked the owner " yep" he replied "that is what we agreed with the building contractor"

This is a list of just a few things I found on a quick visual:-
1. No main earthbonding installed to incoming metal services
2. Mixed wiring colours, showing clear evidence that existing old wiring had been re-used
3. 2 way lighting circuit with both switches hanging off the walls because there were no back boxes installed to fix them to
4. The same 2 way lighting circuit installed in T&E using the cpc as the common conductor.
5. Bathroom light fitting installed directly over a shower/bath using a standard bayonet fitting hanging off the ceiling with what looked like a dozen cables jammed into it.
6. Cooker circuit wired directly into the appliance with no means of local isolation.
7. Cables run down and across walls all over the place with no form of mechanical protection.
8. Old j.b's re-used all over the place
9. No lid on a j.b exposing a very poorly terminated junction with the cpc's just twisted together and un-sheaved.
10. SWA poorly installed and terminated which supplies an out building.

The list I'm sure will go on, but at this point I isolated the main supply and advised the owners that they should get a thorough investigation done and that they may face a complete re-install.

They have asked me to do some further investigation (which I've agreed to do early in the week) to determine what if anything can be salvaged.

Looks like you're going to be busy.
 

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