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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.

[ElectriciansForums.net] Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. :eek:mg_smile:

[ElectriciansForums.net] Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!
 
View attachment 29021Responded to a call out to replace the usual broken pendant and glossed over light switch at a tenants property. Went to knock power off to find the main RCCB switch was already in the "off" position. That's odd I thought. Anyway on removal of the lid I was confronted with this delight!
Spoke to the tenant to find out if anyone had been tinkering. Apparently a few "months" earlier they had contacted the out of hours emergency electricians to restore their power. This crew were from the main contractor that service all the council properties in the city. To bypass a main switch is one thing but to connect the mains directly to an out going shower circuit is quite another. No one was scheduled to come back and rectify it either, as far as I was aware.

Haha that's one way to solve nuisance tripping!
 
Should explain. First pic, cutting of cable, was within a commercial boiler. Heating loop had burst and boiler had run dry and boiled it's nuts off, the stat and thermal cut out had both been messed about with by a previous hero and is why we think they never cut off before the damage was done. Actually surprised the cable got to the point it did before the fuse blew! This incident also killed two pumps.

Second one was loop burst again and pump ran dry and caught fire. Luckily RCD tripped and fire was contained within the boiler.
 
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This is a socket, obviously, it was down the side of a fridge, basically the house movers had forced a fridge in a hole far too small and dented the side of the fridge, and the force had broken the socket because the inner but as you can see had been pushed in, it then went bang because the earth tag cut into the live wire behind!

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