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:

 

[spynage]

Or when they use the un-insulated connectors from the 3plate ceiling rose without tape in a metal fitting in a bathroom. Been like that for 10years apparently and never touched the metal until a lamp went in it and they twisted the fitting slightly changing it and couldn't reset the rcd!View attachment 64416

Just WOW. A little knowledge eh.

 

[spynage]

That’s some rough work even for diy!

I tell you what was rough. The survey!

 

[Mike Johnson]

To be a little bit fairer to the Surveyor, they would not have done an intrusive survey of the property so most of the things exposed by the electrician would not have been obvious to them, but still a bad survey to not pick up any of the exposed items.

 

[spynage]

To be a little bit fairer to the Surveyor, they would not have done an intrusive survey of the property so most of the things exposed by the electrician would not have been obvious to them, but still a bad survey to not pick up any of the exposed items.

Yeah. Understood. I'd like to know what these surveyors do though. This pic is also from under the stairs right by the consumer unit. I wonder what their electrical training is?

 

[freddo]

What would you recommend their next course of action be? I think they deserve compensation.

Don't think there is much that can be done, a house is sold as seen, they will just have to accept it and have the house rewired.

There were a fair number of poor alterations in my house, including bared live conductors buried in filler in 4 locations, a consumer unit wired in 10mm SWA connected to the back of a socket, outside lighting in garden wall wired in flex buried direct, earth wires were cut out and garden lights class I, fed from 32A MCB.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Yeah. Understood. I'd like to know what these surveyors do though. This pic is also from under the stairs right by the consumer unit. I wonder what their electrical training is?

Qualified Building Surveyors (RICS) are trained in all aspects of building work, however they are also trained in Law and how to word any document produced to ensure they are not liable for anything missed by their survey and not included in any report.

 

[spynage]

Don't think there is much that can be done, a house is sold as seen, they will just have to accept it and have the house rewired.

There were a fair number of poor alterations in my house, including bared live conductors buried in filler in 4 locations, a consumer unit wired in 10mm SWA connected to the back of a socket, outside lighting in garden wall wired in flex buried direct, earth wires were cut out and garden lights class I, fed from 32A MCB.

Qualified Building Surveyors (RICS) are trained in all aspects of building work, however they are also trained in Law and how to word any document produced to ensure they are not liable for anything missed by their survey and not included in any report.

Think perhaps it was just a mortgage valuation survey. Seems these and a bona fide property survey are different things.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Spy nage , I would recommend a full rewire of the entire home

unfortunately it is buyer beware when you purchase a property and even if the surveyor said the electrics looked dodgy the previous homeowner is under no obligation to knock money off

 

[spynage]

Spy nage , I would recommend a full rewire of the entire home

unfortunately it is buyer beware when you purchase a property and even if the surveyor said the electrics looked dodgy the previous homeowner is under no obligation to knock money off

No I meant had the buyers known the electrics needed attention then they could of negotiated a reduction or even pulled out! I agree with your assessment though. A full rewire was required. I've done most of it now though anyway!

 

[Deleted account]

Spy nage , I would recommend a full rewire of the entire home

unfortunately it is buyer beware when you purchase a property and even if the surveyor said the electrics looked dodgy the previous homeowner is under no obligation to knock money off

No obligation to knock off money, no obligation to buy.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Most Mortgage companies employ a Local Surveyor/Company (Estate Agent) to carry out their valuation surveys, usually not qualified and are only there to assess if the mortgage applied for is below the value of the property and their investment would therefor be covered, internal fitting and fixtures would not even be considered, just is that house value for money in that area.

 

[Dustydazzler]

No obligation to knock off money, no obligation to buy.

That’s my point , but once you move in you are tied to the house warts and all no matter what it looked like at first sight

the seller has no obligation to knock money off for crap work and the buyer has no obligation to buy

 

[Dustydazzler]

Most Mortgage companies employ a Local Surveyor/Company (Estate Agent) to carry out their valuation surveys, usually not qualified and are only there to assess if the mortgage applied for is below the value of the property and their investment would therefor be covered, internal fitting and fixtures would not even be considered, just is that house value for money in that area.

A friend of mine does bank valuations and they literally only care if the house has 4 external walls with a roof

 

[littlespark]

Here is a new kind of stupid that I got sent on another group....
Perfectly safe up on top of a scissor lift... ???

 

[Dustydazzler]

Is that Chris the plumber up there moonlighting as an electrician