I dont believe i heard this !!!!

[Sav]

Hi everybody,
hope you guys are well and busy.

I was at my local Builder Depot picking up some materials.
Whilst being served, a guy (from eastern europe, juding by his very broken english), barged in and said the follwing to the guy behind the counter.
"My friend, i need wire, twin and bare 10 meters".
The assistant asked what size cable and what it was going to be used for.
His reply was "My friend, I tell you, wire twin and bare for putting on here and putting on there".
I interrupted and asked if he knows what he is buying or if his electrician should come and buy the correct cable.
"You english electricians no good, you too many rules, electrics is only 3 maybe 4 wires in house"
I could not believe what I heard !!!!!
He got his 1.5 t&e and left.
I told the assistant, he should have also bought a fire extinguisher !!!!!

Rant over, have a great evening and dont ever lower your standards.
Sav

 

[Pidlar]

Love it!

 

[ian.settle1]

Yep.

I think 'Corgi' came in 20 years ago or more (I know its not called that now).

Why is the Electrical trade so backwards in the UK?






Not enough deaths perhaps?

Corgi is now deceased it died couple of years back there is a new scheme called "GAS SAFE"

 

[telectrix]

when will these eastern europeans realize that the cpc is there for a reason. it's a stripping cord FFS.

 

[rryles]

If you restrict the sale of T+E then they'll use 3C+E.
If you restrict the sale of 3C+E then they'll use flex.
If you restrict the sale of flex then they'll just by 10m extensions and cut the cable out.
If you restrict the sale of extensions then they'll use telephone cable.
If you restrict the sale of telephone cable then they'll use USB cables.

Don't tell me they wouldn't - I think this thread proves they would!

 

[Kamikaze]

If you restrict the sale of T+E then they'll use 3C+E.
If you restrict the sale of 3C+E then they'll use flex.
If you restrict the sale of flex then they'll just by 10m extensions and cut the cable out.
If you restrict the sale of extensions then they'll use telephone cable.
If you restrict the sale of telephone cable then they'll use USB cables.

Don't tell me they wouldn't - I think this thread proves they would!

Proving the evolutionary theory that a lack of education is more than compensated for by a keenly developed moral bankruptcy!

 

[Scratch Music]

What you must remember is that their electricity is the FRIENDLY type that doesn't bite....

 

[Geordie Spark]

Corgi is now deceased it died couple of years back there is a new scheme called "GAS SAFE"

Yes, you're right. Gas Safe it is.

CORGI was a franchise - like railway companies are nowadays - and when the franchise came up for renewal CORGI didn't get it - just like GNER didn't get their farnchise for the East Coast mainline renewed & National Express lost it too.

Many of us who were CORGI rgistered considered the whole outfit to have become too big for its boots & we seemed to be paying a lot of money for not much in return. I know of blokes who refused to renew their subscriptions & dropped gas work altogether choosing instead to fit bathrooms etc.

There is a story that CORGI also got into an argument with the plumbers union (I think) about who could fit boilers & who couldn't. CORGI claimed that a boiler is a gas appliance & therefor only CORGI registered fitters could fit it, & the plumbers argued that as boilers can be fired with oil, solid fuel & even electricity it is a water appliance so a plumber could fit it - all except for the gas connection & flue. They went to court & CORGI lost the case.