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:

 

[LewisM]

He probably done it himself and was well chuffed with it now you (rightly so) have come in and told him it's a sack of ----

 

[JBW175]

What’s more amazing is the customer is adamant it’s not DIY. He had another electrician in who left the job half way through and hasn’t been back in touch. I’m guessing he’s fell out with ‘Dave from the pub’.

I’ve disconnected the lot. Initially he was a bit miffed I’d disconnected it all. But I said that’s what needed to be done as it’s not safe. Explained to him a few options of how it can be resolved and he’s asked for a quote and when I have availability.

That’s good that he’s been reasonable about you disconnecting it and wants you to do it properly. It looks a right dogs dinner in those photos.

 

[Raptor0014]

That’s good that he’s been reasonable about you disconnecting it and wants you to do it properly. It looks a right dogs dinner in those photos

This is what got me the most. That’s a light switch providing switched isolation for the consumer unit.

 

[littlespark]

And worryingly, that old white switch looks like the tidiest part of the job.

 

[Raptor0014]

And worryingly, that old white switch looks like the tidiest part of the job.

First time I’ve seen SWA taken to one.

 

[mainline]

What’s more amazing is the customer is adamant it’s not DIY. He had another electrician in who left the job half way through and hasn’t been back in touch. I’m guessing he’s fell out with ‘Dave from the pub’.

I’ve disconnected the lot. Initially he was a bit miffed I’d disconnected it all. But I said that’s what needed to be done as it’s not safe. Explained to him a few options of how it can be resolved and he’s asked for a quote and when I have availability.

Where's that what looks like swa in the meter cabinet come/goto

 

[Raptor0014]

Where's that what looks like swa in the meter cabinet come/goto

That’s the SWA for this abomination. It goes to the fused spur under the consumer unit you can see in one of the pics.

Not glanded anywhere, not that it matters as they’ve peeled the armour back to shove it into the box with the 3 core & earth PVC cable.

 

[mainline]

That’s the SWA for this abomination. It goes to the fused spur under the consumer unit you can see in one of the pics.

Not glanded anywhere, not that it matters as they’ve peeled the armour back to shove it into the box with the 3 core & earth PVC cable.

Ahhh I was wondering because it's following the dno cable I thought it may have been a bypass didn't realise it's looped through

 

[pc1966]

Asked by a relative to change a light switch. OK no big deal, unscrew the two fixing screws as usual, pull them out...and out...hmm by time over 5cm of screw has exited I was not expecting great things:

Now they have identified black as (presumably) switched live but yes that really is polystyrene bulking up the wall with the back-box recessed by several cm. Chock block probably all that existed at the time (done at least 16 years ago) but also not visible is the bottom left corner where the earth tag screw was just spinning and no gip of the CPC at all.

Nothing like the sort of other crap that makes it here, but not my ideal job when not prepared to actually fix it properly. Best I could do at the time was to use on of the woodscrews to retain the CPCs.

 

[westward10]

Just use one of the upper or lower 3.5mm plate fixing screws.

 

[timhoward]

Nothing like the sort of other crap that makes it here, but not my ideal job when not prepared to actually fix it properly. Best I could do at the time was to use on of the woodscrews to retain the CPCs.

Maybe a timely video that I saw minutes ago!:

 

[pc1966]

Just use one of the upper or lower 3.5mm plate fixing screws.

Had I known the state I would have planned on a new backbox and maybe tried to space it forward so the normal (as supplied) screws would work. I just happened to have new 5cm ones (bizarrely enough, from another job a year ago where they turned out not to be needed so I left them in with small tools in car) so they did get clean screws as well as a new paint-free switch.

 

[pc1966]

Maybe a timely video that I saw minutes ago!:

Good idea!

Sadly their wall is old lath and plaster, complete with horse hair filling, and it crumbles if you look at it funny. But I'm guessing there is a beam or baton there so next time I might try a proper fix.

 

[davesparks]

Had I known the state I would have planned on a new backbox and maybe tried to space it forward so the normal (as supplied) screws would work.

You can get extension collars for back boxes in various depths from any good electrical wholesaler, easier to fit than it is to try and remove a backbox without damaging the wall or just opening up a can of worms

 

[pc1966]

You can get extension collars for back boxes in various depths from any good electrical wholesaler, easier to fit than it is to try and remove a backbox without damaging the wall or just opening up a can of worms

Brilliant suggestion!