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]

Had a call the other night from a mate whose van was dead after turning it off a few hrs before.
He had tried jump-starting but still no crank/start.
After a 20-mile journey, it took me around 30 seconds to see why.

 

[Jock from the north]

Had a call the other night from a mate whose van was dead after turning it off a few hrs before.
He had tried jump-starting but still no crank/start.
After a 20-mile journey, it took me around 30 seconds to see why.


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Ouch.hopefully the garage is still in the season of good will .a good mechanic , relative or mate is worth there weight in gold .

 

[sunray]

T'was found in a rental property several years ago, I was sent to see why the lights had failed and the elderly tenant fell, requiring an ambulance and hospital stay

 

[littlespark]

That just looks like a bucket of cuttings for the scrap.
Is that a relay contactor? What was that doing in a domestic?

 

[sunray]

That just looks like a bucket of cuttings for the scrap.
Is that a relay contactor? What was that doing in a domestic?

Most of that was very much in use, the relay appeared to have been to do with a removed linear floodlamp, linking it to other outdoor lighting.

The fault wasn't in that jumble!

 

[sunray]

A colleague found this during a PAT on a builders welder back in 2012, the white cable was on the welder

Initially he was just going to change the blue socket (wrong gender) on the welder to a plug and put the blue socket on the black cable, however the white cable

The full extent of it wasn't found until I exercised a screwdriver:
Blue socket wired incorrectly (L= blue, E= brown N & earth not connected) and no cord grip, yellow plug altered to fit into the blue, yellow socket (used as a join) no cord grip, 13A plug not sleeved and what doesn't show in the pics is the black rubber cable was brittle and cracking (perished).
However the yellow cable was almost pristine and repaired as a 110 extension.

Oh and of course the user didn't think there was anything wrong with it other than sometimes tripping breakers, but the boss apparently gave him grief

 

[sunray]

July 2024, rental property:
Tenant has been there since 2018 and Agent arranged EICR, landlord blames tenant, tenant showed me the Estate Agents papers from 2018 where that can just be seen in one of their pics and of course a line saying the electrics needs updating. It's a 10mm² T&E from the cutout.