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:

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

a better view of the consumer unti when the cupbaord was removed, above it a large cavity leading into the bedroom floor space, and this from a kitchen

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

garage door controller

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

an unusual way of securing cables behind plaster ?

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

The two deep fat fryers ? in a domestic kitchen, add in the 3 electric showers 2 upstairs, one in the shower block of the pool, the water heater in the pool, the fans and pumps in the pool and a full electric cooker and you have a little more than 60 amps ?



oh and I forgot the bar outside as well
200 amps at a rough guess

 

[DPG]

Why on earth the 2 big deep fat fryers in a domestic? Daz

 

[Pete999]

Why on earth the 2 big deep fat fryers in a domestic? Daz

Large family maybe

 

[Kamikaze]

Strictly speaking I’ve screwed up there. Had I fitted the switch sideways, it would have switched the lights on when the door is opened and back off again when the door is closed.

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

Large family maybe

they liked entertaining
and were all fat slobs

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

I cant say too much about this one as its liable to go to court
plumber had fitted another C/U from the existing, but had removed the meter cabinet to drop the cable to the shower into the cavity ?? then forgotten to reconnect the main earth
the whole thing was nasty
no CPC on the lighting circuit ( pre66) and metal fittings and switchplates everywhere
grommets absent on tails


DNOs earth pulled away from cable ??



lovely bit of termination aint it !!!

cold water feed to shower, missing cover and water flowed down into the terminals ?
oh and the shower switch was inside the shower as well

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

nicely placed cooker switch on another job, installed by a kitchen and bathroom company ( muppets)

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

another DIY job
the idiot had knocked down a wall, so he shoved the lightswitch up above the ceiling ???

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

Heres a nice one
doing a favour for the family, I went to look at a house a young couple had bought, when I opened up the C/U all of these beads fell out, the main tails inside the C/U were melted due to polymer migration and high temperature
the origional cables had been dropped down in the wall cavity
as well as this metal light switches and fittings and no CPC and some amazine other bodges by barry the big mouthed know it all builder


where the new cables passed through a wall, the muppet had covered the big hole with a tin of PU foam and filler ?




There was an SWA in the garage, but no evidence of it inside the house, or a termination into PVC, until I lifted the floor and found this wonderful job


the C/U when removed showing damage to bus bars insulation



the C/u in the garage with the SWA nicely terminated
why me ??

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

Went to a commercial job, large equestrian building open to the public, owner decides on change of use, and adds a new door, now the sensible thing would have been to consult me first to relocate the fire alarm cables, no he cut them and joints them like this, and straight up baulked when I quoted 300 pounds to remove the entire section of cables and run new sections correctly
he also wanted me to install caravan supplies onto a wonky old fence ??and a few other jobs
I was polite but said dont waste my time

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

same job, this was the 3 phase board ??all working in public area, and even worse in an adjoining buidling where the main incoming supply was terminated, the roof was missing and water was running down onto the DNOs equipment

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

Lovely eh ?
supply cable to an outbuilding
in this case the client had called a builder in to convert the garage into a bathroom and utility room
his muppets fitted a new C/U even wrote out a ticket, but failed to test or inspect the existing circuits
then the problems started trippingout when it rained
and of course our team could not be located
I had to get the DNO to supply a new earth to the property as the muppets had failed to test it ( made the readings up)
replace the external supply, several lights and sort out the new bathroom