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:

 

[Raptor0014]

Awesome workmanship here. ??‍

The craftsmanship to get the drawer unit frame to sit over a unswitched fused spur leaving no access is something to behold. And then the addition of the switched fused spur for some exterior lights with the exposed T&E is a nice touch.

Not only is this in a daft place. If the plugs are used the drawers don’t close properly.

The mind boggles sometimes. I’d love to know what they were smoking when they ‘designed’ this.

 

[Dustydazzler]

That is builders wiring all day long

 

[pirate]

 

[pirate]

Simple JB, supplies 4 outside lights. Not daisy-chained, just spidered off. L is a t&e with the N cut off, N is t&e from another JB with L cut off, and all the CPCs terminated, but with a lack of sleeveing. Took me a while to suss this out, but all working fine now. ..

 

[pc1966]

A special kind of fail. Not following the old tradition of mounting a socket in the skirting board, they mounted it in the wall. But somehow still managed to still have it in the skirting board to the extent that moulded plugs with any form of strain relief won't fit.

 

[nicebutdim]

There was one in my parents house, surface mounted and tight to the carpet.

 

[Dustydazzler]

I have seen lots of sockets mounted upside down so the plugtop flex isn't squashed

 

[littlespark]

That looks like the socket was there first and they've introduced "period" style skirting boards and never thought of the heights.

 

[Dustydazzler]

That looks like the socket was there first and they've introduced "period" style skirting boards and never thought of the heights.

it would have taken a sparks 45mins to move that socket up 3 inches , but no the builder butchers the skirting board instead ?

 

[James]

it would have taken a sparks 45mins to move that socket up 3 inches , but no the builder butchers the skirting board instead ?

Can just hear the customer wailing “HOW MUCH” but you have only used £2 worth of cable.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Can just hear the customer wailing “HOW MUCH” but you have only used £2 worth of cable.

Yet they would have had no complaints paying a grand to move 2 inches of gas pipe

 

[nicebutdim]

Gas and water seem to frighten people more than electricity.

 

[Doomed]

Yes that is either 1mm or 1.5mm in the socket, no we won't put in a spur for a 2KW water heater

 

[Dustydazzler]

That is a typical pub / take away install if I ever saw one

 

[pc1966]

I have seen lots of sockets mounted upside down so the plugtop flex isn't squashed

With double sockets you can't really win as some wall-wart power units go up the way to avoid the too-low traditional mounting arrangements.

Singles you can do sideways to work, but really its a nasty legacy of (I presume) avoiding putting sockets in lath and plaster walls and using the board as at least a stable mounting base.