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:

 

[Teddy Lop]

Because builder can do electrics too you know!

 

[Simon47]

Because air con fitter

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What's going on with that white cable ? Is it an extra long nipple end to a gland with some plastic bits on as spacers, or something else ?

 

[Teddy Lop]

What's going on with that white cable ? Is it an extra long nipple end to a gland with some plastic bits on as spacers, or something else ?

Hole in the trunking too big for the gland so the black bit is the shroud

How it ended up like that is anyone's guess. An Aircon fitter is what's going on. Maybe they should stick with stuffing glands?

Hey at least he didn't use sy...

 

[freddo]

Supply cable is connected to load terminals so fuse is still live when the isolator is in the off position. I didn't remove the terminal shield, it was left of top when I got there.

 

[bill01803]

Never seen this label configuration before or the 5A plug and socket

 

[littlespark]

Never seen this label configuration before or the 5A plug and socket
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In built test facility? (Unplug it)

The pictograms on the right clearly states:- “in the event of fire, run around in a circle in blind panic”

 

[Julie.]

Never seen this label configuration before or the 5A plug and socket
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Looks like you buy the one emergency exit luminaire, and select the appropriate signage rather than having to buy the correct luminaire with the correct sign for each application.

5A plug just looks like a standard BS 546 type d to me, what is it if its not?

 

[timhoward]

Looks like you buy the one emergency exit luminaire, and select the appropriate signage rather than having to buy the correct luminaire with the correct sign for each application.

Agreed. Like this:

 

[Julie.]

Agreed. Like this:
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Very Benny Hill.

I can just hear Yakety Sax playing in my head as I look at it.

 

[freddo]

Went to change a trickle/boost wall fan today that ventilated a small storage room. Disconnected the old fan from the adjacent switched fused spur, moved the supply wires from the load terminals to the supply terminals, replaced the 13a fuse with a 3a one. New fan class II but took Zs reading at spur as a matter of course. Meter not testing, looks like no earth. Spur wired to nearby surface PIR in grey T+E, nope cable runs straight through the PIR box into the light on the wall by the fan. Checked in the light and rather surprised to see the reason I wasn't getting an earth loop reading. Ended up ripping the wiring for the fan, light and PIR out and wiring it properly off the conduit just below. This must have been like it for more than 10 years. Surprised no one ever got a shock off the plate screws.

 

[Mike Johnson]

At least whoever put a bit of red tape on the G/Y, but.......

 

[Avo Mk8]

5A plug just looks like a standard BS 546 type d to me, what is it if its not?

It's an MK 2A 3-pin plug. Familiar to me amongst the assortment of round pin plugs and adapters in our house when I was young(ish)!

502 WHI | MK Electric UK Mains Plug, 2A, Cable Mount | RS

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[Julie.]

It's an MK 2A 3-pin plug. Familiar to me amongst the assortment of round pin plugs and adapters in our house when I was young(ish)!

502 WHI | MK Electric UK Mains Plug, 2A, Cable Mount | RS

uk.rs-online.com

That's a 2A BS 546 plug, so same range just 2A rather than 5A as the OP indicated.

2A is pretty rare TBH

 

[westward10]

I took the ceiling light out in our lounge and put in 2A sockets.

 

[Simon47]

That's a 2A BS 546 plug, so same range just 2A rather than 5A as the OP indicated.
2A is pretty rare TBH

We had them in our rooms at university - the town centre Woolies did a good trade at the start of each academic year. Plus there was a second hand market selling your surplus plugs to freshers when you'd moved into more modern digs.
The lighting circuit wasn't metered while the power circuits were. Having some electrical knowledge was handy in maximising what you could safely run off the 2A lighting sockets !

Also, my parents house built in the 80s had lots of combination outlets - one 13A socket, a fuse, and two 2A sockets. They got swapped simply because of the hassle moving things around when the sockets are mixed.

 

[nicebutdim]

I took the ceiling light out in our lounge and put in 2A sockets.View attachment 117525

I was scrolling down and half expecting to see a 2A socket on the ceiling.

Joking aside, I've seen old 15A sockets on more than one bathroom ceiling.

 

[littlespark]

When a plumber completes a heating installation in a new build, then realises he’s got the flow and return the wrong way round….

 

[Simon47]

When a plumber completes a heating installation in a new build, then realises he’s got the flow and return the wrong way round….
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To be fair, it is at least a decent bit of workmanship. The front complex bend is a bit wrinkly, but some would have used "a lot" of elbows to do it.

 

[brianmoooore]

New build? With exposed plumbing running around the room just below ceiling level?

 

[Teddy Lop]

levitating towell rail!

 

[Teddy Lop]

Both the work of the same in-DERR-vi-"jewell"

First note element top right corner. Told it had to be this way as c/h pipes use bottom. Probably expected me to sellotape a longer flex to reach the plate below... Told client to buy him a duel entry fitment and call me back. 600w element, probably a scald risk as the thermostat sits at the end of the element and it won't convect...

Second one, apparently it "had to be done like this due to how the pipes exit the wall"

 

[LewisM]

Leads that have worked for years (1st picture) replaced by something that lasted less than 6 months

 

[westward10]

I'm letting some of these go but can we keep this to dodgy electrical pics.

 

[littlespark]

New build? With exposed plumbing running around the room just below ceiling level?

Fairly new build. Was in a plant room from the boiler on the left of the door to the hot water cylinder on the right.

It could have been a change in boiler where the F and R are on different sides?? Who knows.


I was there trying to repair a Nest thermostat… (turn it off, turn it back on, job done)…. And the wiring centre had a couple of 4 core flexes where 5 core would have been more suitable…

 

[ipf]

Should we call it intermediate piping?

When a plumber completes a heating installation in a new build, then realises he’s got the flow and return the wrong way round….

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