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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:

 

[SparkyChick]

You don't spend the first 22 years of your professional working life surrounded by men in a male dominated industry without developing a thick skin, a foul mouth and a taste for real ale.... or at least I didn't

 

[Pete999]

Workmanship is fine with me.

I'm not a subscriber to the current feminist ideas which seem to be focused around equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity. Hiring quotas and all that garbage. They want equality... they should work hard for the top jobs like men have to!

Plus they aren't good for work place banter, all the PC claptrap is killing the best jokes

Trouble is SparkyChick I'm old school can't get to grips with equality

You don't spend the first 22 years of your professional working life surrounded by men in a male dominated industry without developing a thick skin, a foul mouth and a taste for real ale.... or at least I didn't

Careful there Sparky you will be giving your age away next

 

[Specialist]

She's nowt but a youngster yet Pete

 

[freddo]

From a periodic in a property with dreadful wiring.

It was so much worse once the covers were removed.

It doesn't look like it in the photo as I could poke the lens into the void, but the switch fuse that feeds the above 2 fuse boards it completely inaccessible. You can't get your hand in to reach it, as a stud wall has been built in front of it.

This join had several different colours of paint on it, so I assume it's been like it for a while... That cable spurring off of the ring final at this socket feeds 3 doubles.
Parts of the lighting circuit are also directly connected to the ring. I hope to go back to rewire as there are several things I couldn't quite find, such as the purpose of the red conductor that was connected to the neutral bar. Took me long enough to work out what was connected to what circuit, made more difficult by the light switches that were seized in the off position and various remote DP switches that sent power down a cable but no one knew what for.

Spider that appeared in the van. I would have let him stay if he was there tidying the place.

 

[SparkyChick]

That's gonna give me nightmares!!!

The wiring's pretty bad too.

 

[DPG]

Cables don't look to have adequate cable clipping to me. Ooooh, you wouldnt let it lie

 

[Rpa07]

This thread wouldn't be anything without you @freddo!
That's a woodlouse spider - beautiful but deadly . . . to a woodlouse!

 

[Specialist]

@freddo Not in a pub by any chance mate ?

 

[freddo]

@freddo Not in a pub by any chance mate ?

No a rented house

 

[davesparks]

So in this situation I'm in a customer property, customer isn't there and I can't go anywhere to get spares etc.

What would you have me do to fully comply? How would you get over the issue of there being no cable clamps?

I don't know what you carry in your van so don't know what you have available to work with.
Personally I have a bunch of parts which I could use or adapt to serve the purpose.
P clips or patent band can be used to make strain reliefs in the same style as the missing ones, just flatten the p clip and use it like a saddle so it has two points of fixing and doesn't spin.
Cable ties can also be used, either screwing tie bases to the wall and strapping the cables to them, or drill two holes in the back of the box to pass the cable tie through and strap the cables to it.

But to be honest I would have removed the box and fitted a J701.

 

[SparkyChick]

I don't know what you carry in your van so don't know what you have available to work with.
Personally I have a bunch of parts which I could use or adapt to serve the purpose.
P clips or patent band can be used to make strain reliefs in the same style as the missing ones, just flatten the p clip and use it like a saddle so it has two points of fixing and doesn't spin.
Cable ties can also be used, either screwing tie bases to the wall and strapping the cables to them, or drill two holes in the back of the box to pass the cable tie through and strap the cables to it.

But to be honest I would have removed the box and fitted a J701.

That is great advice, thanks Dave. Some more items for my spares box (aside from the spare wiring centre I picked up this morning)

Currently sweating to death in a hot attic... Any good advice for that situation

 

[Specialist]

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No a rented house

That is great advice, thanks Dave. Some more items for my spares box (aside from the spare wiring centre I picked up this morning)

Currently sweating to death in a hot attic... Any good advice for that situation

That one's easy SC, get an apprentice or mate. They go really well in attics
We used to have a 6" clip on fan as well.

 

[Dave OCD]

That is great advice, thanks Dave. Some more items for my spares box (aside from the spare wiring centre I picked up this morning)

Currently sweating to death in a hot attic... Any good advice for that situation

Yes reschedule the job for when the weather cools down, that's what I did yesterday, hovering around 30c here at the moment.

 

[Specialist]

Only had a fan to put in attics to stop the apprentice passing out . That's the problem with them nowadays, they just break way too easily

 

[Dave OCD]

Just doing any sort of work well away from lofts is hard going in these temperatures.