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:

 

[telectrix]

Does this make it any clearer?

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need to see if the blacks in the henley by the meter come drom the cut-out or go to the main switches.

 

[Raptor0014]

Answers on a postcard.

Anyone hazard a guess at why the RCD doesn’t want to play nicely and the trip button says no?

 

[littlespark]

Answers on a postcard.

Anyone hazard a guess at why the RCD doesn’t want to play nicely and the trip button says no?

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Accumulative earth faults?

That’s a lot of sockets on one rcd.

 

[Raptor0014]

Accumulative earth faults?

That’s a lot of sockets on one rcd.

There is from the RCD going left.

40A cooker
40A shower
40A second shower
32A ring to 6 2gang garage workshop sockets
32A ring to 7 2gang sockets in an office area
32A ring to 12 2gang sockets downstairs
32A ring to 14 2gang sockets upstairs
32A ring to 9 2gang sockets in hall, entrance foyer and utility.
6A radial to boiler
16A radial to 3 x 2gang outdoor sockets.

So I’m surmising the RCD has been overworked a tad.

 

[JosephandAmber]

The customer had a N-E-L fault on their ring. The previous electrician had moved it off the RCD as a 'temporary' measure. I could hear arching coming from inside of a wall when the cable was live. Found this buried within the cement render. A previous spark had jointed a leg of the 2.5mm ring and buried it.

Not sure if it was the damp, a bad connection or a combination but it sure went pop.

 

[Raptor0014]

The customer had a N-E-L fault on their ring. The previous electrician had moved it off the RCD as a 'temporary' measure. I could hear arching coming from inside of a wall when the cable was live. Found this buried within the cement render. A previous spark had jointed a leg of the 2.5mm ring and buried it.

Not sure if it was the damp, a bad connection or a combination but it sure went pop.

I wonder if that was a underrated joint used and it’s let go over time? Either way it’s not special for the customer.

 

[pirate]

Cables charred to fek...but Scotchlok looks ok!

 

[ipf]

Accumulative earth faults?

That’s a lot of sockets on one rcd.

I'd say any earth fault should cause an instant trip.......leakage, more like.
Sure looks like a bucket load of sockets, though.

 

[timhoward]

I've shared these crimp and tape tails before, what I didn't twig first time was why.

Yep, can't remove CU cover as top of cupboard in way.
So changing the tails became a slightly more interesting job. (CU now shifted down 2 inches too.)

 

[Julie.]

Not mine, but useful shower

Keeps the switch clean.

 

[James]

Not mine, but useful showerView attachment 93009

Keeps the switch clean.

Could have at least mounted it square, looks so out of place!

 

[LewisM]

'The plug was really tight but it went on eventually'

 

[James]

Neighbour knocked on my door this morning
looking a bit sheepish and shaken

“just changed a light and it works ok but gave me a big shock when I tried to put the cover on”

he had copied the original rose cable positions.
N - loop - live
to the new fitting that came with a terminal block
N - pe - live

the earths were all twisted together and not connected to anything.

took me a full 30 seconds to see the red wires in the terminal with the green/yellow and mentally compute that it looked WRONG!!!

to preserve the little self pride the poor guy had, I didn’t take any pictures.

I have a funny feeling a bottle of wine or case of beer might be coming my way.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Neighbour knocked on my door this morning
looking a bit sheepish and shaken

“just changed a light and it works ok but gave me a big shock when I tried to put the cover on”

he had copied the original rose cable positions.
N - loop - live
to the new fitting that came with a terminal block
N - pe - live

the earths were all twisted together and not connected to anything.

took me a full 30 seconds to see the red wires in the terminal with the green/yellow and mentally compute that it looked WRONG!!!

to preserve the little self pride the poor guy had, I didn’t take any pictures.

I have a funny feeling a bottle of wine or case of beer might be coming my way.

I have seen the Perm lives shoved in the earth terminal a couple times , customers complaining when they touch the light they get a belt

basically the light fitting was acting like a make shift earth electrode

 

[Mike Johnson]

I think some of them do it on purpose, it's the only high they can get.