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:

 

[littlespark]

This one is from a handyman. Not a joiner. But someone who can turn his hand to anything….. ok, that hand must have a boxing glove on it looking at this.

Nice custome made cupboard to hide the meter and the consumer unit…..



Unfortunately…. I’m going to have to ask them to remove it….




Cos I can’t get the lid off the box now.

 

[mainline]

This one is from a handyman. Not a joiner. But someone who can turn his hand to anything….. ok, that hand must have a boxing glove on it looking at this.

Nice custome made cupboard to hide the meter and the consumer unit…..

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Unfortunately…. I’m going to have to ask them to remove it….


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Cos I can’t get the lid off the box now.

He should use cabinet hangers, so it could then be simply lifted off.

 

[littlespark]

He should use cabinet hangers, so it could then be simply lifted off.

He should have left it until I was finished.

I’ve still got main bonding to get back to here.


Whole job has been arse over elbow. Customers dad was painting walls before anything had been done

 

[mainline]

He should have left it until I was finished.

I’ve still got main bonding to get back to here.


Whole job has been arse over elbow. Customers dad was painting walls before anything had been done

I have the same sort of problem at least once a month carpenter mostly.

Last one was part way through a rewire he put all the flooring back down and two partitions in

Lucky I’m on hourly rate

 

[Jock from the north]

This one is from a handyman. Not a joiner. But someone who can turn his hand to anything….. ok, that hand must have a boxing glove on it looking at this.

Nice custome made cupboard to hide the meter and the consumer unit…..

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Unfortunately…. I’m going to have to ask them to remove it….


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Cos I can’t get the lid off the box now.

I had one where there lowered the ceiling down past consumer unit.but they could still get in to reset the mcb if a lamp went so that was the most important thing lol

 

[Teddy Lop]

I had one where there lowered the ceiling down past consumer unit.but they could still get in to reset the mcb if a lamp went so that was the most important thing lol

Had a few like that. Or "clad" a wall leaving a nice neat little door just big enough to flip the MCB's.

Had one a little while back where they fitted the unit to the back of a fairly shallow cupboard, but 8' high and in the space above the door opening, so no straight-on access. Absolutely no comfortable position whatsoever to get at it. You just know the conversation was the client had the bright idea to put it "out of the way" and the useless drips cosplaying as tradesmen didn't have the wherewithal to tell them to stop being so utterly stupid.

 

[Jock from the north]

Had a few like that. Or "clad" a wall leaving a nice neat little door just big enough to flip the MCB's.

Had one a little while back where they fitted the unit to the back of a fairly shallow cupboard, but 8' high and in the space above the door opening, so no straight-on access. Absolutely no comfortable position whatsoever to get at it. You just know the conversation was the client had the bright idea to put it "out of the way" and the useless drips cosplaying as tradesmen didn't have the wherewithal to tell them to stop being so utterly stupid.

Out of site out of mind
Builders still want to find the most awkward place for consumer units.the combi boiler has got to have plenty room though cos it runs on gas also a little magic switch that makes it work

 

[pirate]

Yes, builders love to put the CU in the middle of the house, or my pet hate, high up on the wall above the WC in the downstairs cloakroom at the front of the house. I don't like the cloakroom there either. You ring the bell, you hear the flush, and the homeowner greets you a few seconds later without having had time to wash hands...

 

[Jock from the north]

Yes, builders love to put the CU in the middle of the house, or my pet hate, high up on the wall above the WC in the downstairs cloakroom at the front of the house. I don't like the cloakroom there either. You ring the bell, you hear the flush, and the homeowner greets you a few seconds later without having had time to wash hands...

There still putting them under the stairs well the last one I seen would have been built in a large scheme in 2022 so planning prob went back years but they put a metal plate on the consumer unit wall and also took the broadband in there and the guy wondered why his WiFi was so crap