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:

 

[nicebutdim]

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

I tend to most enjoy picutres of situations members have stumbled across, rather than images lifted at random from the internet.

 

[hydrocarbonPrimate]

Gas pipe underneath hob

 

[littlespark]

Gas pipe underneath hob

Not great. At least the gas valve there is turned off.

 

[Simon47]

Not great. At least the gas valve there is turned off.

At least it HAS a gas valve. A few years ago in our rental flat the hob developed a leak. No gas valve, so had to pay someone to come in and disconnect it temporarily while I bought a new one, then pay them to come back and fit the new one. Asked if he could fit a valve and told no, no room for it (which to be fair was probably correct without pulling units out to alter the pipework.

 

[LewisM]

Burnt out heater connector on a few months old £200m plane

 

[DefyG]

Burnt out heater connector on a few months old £200m plane

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Looks like it got 'HOT' just as it says on the tin!

 

[littlespark]

What the actual **** is going on here?



I’ll show you more later.

 

[Moley]

Is the plug supplying the FCU? What's the FCU connected to?

 

[littlespark]

Next image….



The plug flex goes into the fcu, supplying it backwards… then buried t&e up to this lightswitch.
Up the wall, the left turn and buried in the plaster around the edge corner of the chimney breast to feed the spotlights.

Guess where the rawlplug is holding the spotlights up.


All this has been stripped out. But I’ve discovering more and more strange things in this flat.

 

[freddo]

At least the FCU wasn't supplying the socket!

 

[littlespark]

Not found in the wild, but it popped up on that tickety-tock thing on my phone….



“You got that hole drilled yet?”

“Yeh, boss”

 

[Moley]

I stayed at a little self catering place last night. I noticed the splash back thingy wasn't fixed to the wall so I took a look behind.

 

[timhoward]

This week's collection:
1 - sent by my assistant in his holiday let. Many questions come to mind and that's before you read the label.
I asked him if it was an SPD tester.

2 - I don't think I've ever found 3 live sources over a single downlight before... 2 transformers with primary energised, secondary failed on one, both bulb holders still connected, and in addition a live GU10 bulb holder...

3 - The worst quote of the week in terms of expected time taken, adding a 2nd light switch other end of garage, how hard can it be? New switch and 3 core ran in about 25 minutes. Then I took the cover of the existing 1 gang switch... and this wasn't what I was expecting. Rather impressive! The 1mm T+E was eventually traced to an outside socket "for Christmas stuff".

 

[UNG]

This week's collection:
1 - sent by my assistant in his holiday let. Many questions come to mind and that's before you read the label.
I asked him if it was an SPD tester.

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I know the UK weather isn't the best at times but lightning strikes on demand is going a bit too far

 

[Welchyboy1]

The block of flats i do maintenance for had a brand new Tesla charger installed, I knew the guy whose parking space it was lived in the next block on the 2nd floor

Had to have a nose to see where he supplied it from

Gonna see alot more of this type of thing!

What about the poor guy who cuts the grass!

I wonder how its been protected at the consumer unit end?

 

[littlespark]

Report it.

Is there a management co. that looks after the grassed areas? This has introduced a hazard that shouldn’t be there…. As you say, the grass cutter might get a bit of a shock when he next runs over it.

Is it a UK compliment charge point or an Amazonian special?