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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:

 

[Rpa07]

Point is - were the neutrals long enough for re termination after testing? Strange though - will you be able to find out who did it?
Put your deerstalker on and get hunting!

 

[Rpa07]

Gas man/ plumber pulling a fast one - wanted a bit of work but . . . He wouldn't have been there in the first place unless there was a fault! The plot thickens dum dum dum!

 

[SparkyChick]

What I failed to mention was the neutral was out on the switch near the tank as well, which I obviously fixed before I did a continuity check on the cable. On the switch in the kitchen however, the terminal screws were knackered and couldn't be undone... both of them! Coincidence???

Put a Wago lever in on the neutral in the kitchen as a stop gap while I sourced a new switch plate, now I have one I'm waiting for the landlord to get back to me to go and fit it.

As to who did it... god only knows. It was the gas man I think who got her to call me. Tenants reckoned they had been using it until a few weeks before, but the boiler condensate drain was blocked so that was off and they wanted a hot shower and found it wasn't working. They couldn't remember if anyone had been in other than the gas man and me, neither could she.

I'd love to know though even if just so if I'm asked by a customer for a recommendation on a plumber or gas engineer I can avoid giving the guy work. Not that I'm complaining it was easy money apart from the cost of fixing my mistake of pulling of the cable somewhat prematurely, which I didn't charge her for. Have to say it freaked her out a little bit, didn't do a lot for me either... wilful sabotage that could so easily have killed someone, and I'm there with one of the tenants, I'm thinking any minute now we're gonna get the Psycho shower scene in the airing cupboard

 

[SparkyChick]

One more. Can anyone spot what's wrong with this? Apart from the obvious ratsnest chocblock fetish the installer had. I should add, it was dubiously concealed under the mass of insulation you see behind it. I went hunting after some basic checks threw up some interesting results during a quote visit for some lighting changes

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[kingeri]

One more. Can anyone spot what's wrong with this? Apart from the obvious ratsnest chocblock fetish the installer had. I should add, it was dubiously concealed under the mass of insulation you see behind it. I went hunting after some basic checks threw up some interesting results during a quote visit for some lighting changes

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It's out of focus?

A cpc not connected?

 

[SparkyChick]

Yeah, sorry about the quality... that was my not so smart smartphone and it's crappy camera from 2009

Spot on with the fault. Tested Zs at a fitting the chap wanted changed and my MFT kept flashing CON... checked the leads, tried different combinations and I'm thinking warranty replacement time until I asked the chap if he'd had any work done recently... oh yes, he said, had the bathroom done... facepalm time! Broke out the ladder, crawled in the loft and found that above his bathroom

 

[kingeri]

I found stuff like that all over a new build recently, only went to connect the boiler, turned into an almost full rewire.

 

[Wilko]

If you have too many earths for your terminal strip just repurpose it as a miniature lightning arrestor

Edit - toooo slow, again

 

[freddo]

Pass.

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[Rpa07]

Name and shame! GH you've let the trade down! Obviously not a competent person carrying out in service testing.

 

[Andy78]

It's entirely possible it could have been fiddled with in the past 3 years.

 

[gazdkw82]

What's on the other end? It's entirely possible someone has terminated the same way on the other end

 

[DPG]

Bad plug design - the user cannot visibly tell that the cord is out of the cord grip. Daz

 

[freddo]

It's entirely possible it could have been fiddled with in the past 3 years.

Perhaps, this was one that got missed as it was stored in a loft, I did the testing in 2014 and there were loads of problems in plugs it was clear the company did not inspect inside any plugs. Even the client asked me why I was opening each one as during the previous tests that didn't happen.

What's on the other end? It's entirely possible someone has terminated the same way on the other end

A heater was on the other end, the flex didn't look replaceable.

Bad plug design - the user cannot visibly tell that the cord is out of the cord grip. Daz

The users at this location are not the sort of people to carry out pre-use checks.

 

[Danny Gray]

I really should put my phone down and go to sleep but it keeps getting better!