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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:

 

[LewisM]

Also never let the customer measure the cable and say there is plenty to work with

 

[davesparks]

Wow, connector blocks are a rare sight these days, I can't remember the last time I used plastic ones!

 

[LewisM]

Wow, connector blocks are a rare sight these days, I can't remember the last time I used plastic ones!

Yeah I had 10mm butt crimps but no heatshrink

 

[westward10]

Connector blocks have holes in the middle of them for a reason.

 

[mainline]

Close, it was the man who came to fix the flat roof that was leaking

I wonder if he was the same man who did the roof to begin with.

 

[Dave OCD]

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Lovely work, both RCDs bypassed with the busbar also connected to the outgoing line and neutral on both. It takes a special way of thinking to produce work like that.

 

[mainline]

Lovely work, both RCDs bypassed with the busbar also connected to the outgoing line and neutral on both. It takes a special way of thinking to produce work like that.

Yes, but you must admit it sorted that tripping problem out.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Yes, but you must admit it sorted that tripping problem out.

Its certainly one way of doing it , its amazing the amount of different ways I come across that someone has used to bypass the RCD

 

[BenCos18]

Yes, but you must admit it sorted that tripping problem out.

Haha that's for sure lol
It always both amazes and annoys me how badly some people do the work tbh

 

[littlespark]

I wonder if he was the same man who did the roof to begin with.

No. That was the electrician.

Connector blocks have holes in the middle of them for a reason.

Easier to snap apart?

Never liked using them as a fixing hole, unless it’s a really thin screw.
The thread cutting into plastic could get too close to a live terminal.

 

[DPG]

No. That was the electrician.


Easier to snap apart?

Never liked using them as a fixing hole, unless it’s a really thin screw.
The thread cutting into plastic could get too close to a live terminal.

Agree. It really needs to be a machine screw and nut so that there is no risk of that happening

 

[Dustydazzler]

I have come across connectors completely split open when sparks have driven big wood screws into the hole in the connector to fix it to something. if you really feel the need to anchor the connector to the box then a dob of super glue would be better imo

 

[ipf]

Connector blocks have holes in the middle of them for a reason.

Drain holes?

 

[mainline]

Can you come and have a look, I think my consumer unit has got a bit warm.

 

[DPG]

Can you come and have a look, I think my consumer unit has got a bit warm.
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Jeez that's a bad one. What's the verdict? Apart from that it's knackered obviously!

 

[Julie.]

Can you come and have a look, I think my consumer unit has got a bit warm.
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Pretty obvious why that's gone wrong!

They have used the old wiring colours, and haven't put a notice of colours to one or more version of the regs!

Missing that notice, and there was bound to be a problem!!

 

[LewisM]

Looks like the fusehead had melted?

 

[littlespark]

Can we make consumer units out of the same material as that meter?
Its virtually unscathed

 

[123]

Can we make consumer units out of the same material as that meter?
Its virtually unscathed

In fairness the consumer unit main switch/rcd's/mcb's all look fine also...it looks like the supply cable is the issue, not sure why it's not just a set of metre tails or quite what's got wrong there

 

[Julie.]

Can we make consumer units out of the same material as that meter?
Its virtually unscathed

Err plastic?

Perhaps we should see the dangers of metal cu's and move over to plastic.

Seemed to work last time we did it.

Old plastic (bakelite) - dangerous let's move to metal.

Old metal - dangerous let's move to plastic

Old plastic - dangerous let's move to metal

So when's the next switch over planned for?

 

[Fazz711]

Err plastic?

Perhaps we should see the dangers of metal cu's and move over to plastic.

Seemed to work last time we did it.

Old plastic (bakelite) - dangerous let's move to metal.

Old metal - dangerous let's move to plastic

Old plastic - dangerous let's move to metal

So when's the next switch over planned for?

Make them out of asbestos lol

 

[mainline]

Jeez that's a bad one. What's the verdict? Apart from that it's knackered obviously!

Dno called out to renew the head and move it outside, they were very lucky that the place never burnt down.

 

[brianmoooore]

Last time I had that scenario (DNO head burst into flames and set fire to CUs directly above it), DNO sent an invoice to the customer for replacing the head, claiming that the source of the fire was one of the CUs.

 

[mainline]

Looks like the fusehead had melted?

The feed to the head looped down the side of the cu, when they overheated they melted the side of it.
Having an 8.5kw electric shower along with 9kw electric central heating didn't help.

 

[mainline]

Last time I had that scenario (DNO head burst into flames and set fire to CUs directly above it), DNO sent an invoice to the customer for replacing the head, claiming that the source of the fire was one of the CUs.

Basically the same scenario here, dno moved to an outside cabinet at no cost.