Pet Hates ( Excluding Customers)

[telectrix]

as title. let's have some of you pet hates with the trade.
I'll start off with a couple:

1. Captive screws that fall out and get lost when nothing in your parts stock will do.
2. terminal screws that you can't see the head and need to tighten by feel ( many ceiling roses are this).

 

[Octopus]

All those lazy mums who insist on driving their little darlings 1/2 mile to school - clogging up all the roads ..............

 

[westward10]

Choc boxes, oversized green/yellow sleeving and all the people who fit these things.
And that to**er Greg Wallace.

 

[Phil Thompson]

Square knockouts
Customers that still use cheques, even if they are old lol
Tilers that cut too little around the box and you can't get faces on
Plasterers in general
95% of all plumbers
Having to open a new roll of cable cos you are .4m short, as you found out when you thought it would be enough on the last roll you just rewound up

 

[Dave OCD]

All those lazy mums who insist on driving their little darlings 1/2 mile to school - clogging up all the roads ..............

And most of that lot aren't skinny, but it's a medical condition - overactive knife and fork.

 

[telectrix]

joggers (in training for a heart attack).

 

[plugsandsparks]

Knockouts that require so much knocking the whole thing distorts, thinking DB enclosures,
Drills that are never sharp enough
Batteries for SDS always dead when i need them
PIRS/presence detectors with no/little info on switching leds (given up now and use relays)
Invisible cobwebs - you know when you have walked into one head first...
Weak coffee from costa, used to blow my head off now its weasle ----.
Slow drivers
Traffic lights
"intelligent motorways"
swa glands, there must be a better way to terminate swa
stuffing glands with the little pink bit inside, wtf is that all about

Off for a smoke now.....
Oh smoking laws - wtf is going on in the world

 

[Phil Thompson]

Every new CCU not having dual colour stickers on the page.
Having to add the vat on to everything to work out prices lol

 

[telectrix]

and a 10 way CU with a circuit chart that is only for 5 circuits. BG, you have been shamed.

 

[Dave OCD]

Do you mean the 'additional information' label Tel ? I guess they assume some will be self explanatory and other circuits need a bit more detailed information.

 

[telectrix]

no. i meant the sticker for inside the lid. "circuit details",

 

[Dave OCD]

That's the same one I meant, most circuits you can label below the MCBs , but you could always draw more lines on that one.

 

[Phil Thompson]

no. i meant the sticker for inside the lid. "circuit details",

They're also the one I refer to on dual colour labels.

 

[NDG Elecs]

Not sure I understand the Crammed rats nest paragraph NDG

Yeah when I wrote it I thought it didn't read very well; sorry!
Anyway, I meant CUs which are a mess inside Pete, with far too many cables in them. Also meant the neutrals and CPCs are terminated in no particular order, so when testing it can take 20 minutes finding the right conductors in order to test.

As an example I had the one below a few months back, finding the CPCs on the ring I was working on was a reet pain...get some cable markers on em! And had to take 6-7 RCBOs out to get to the cables I needed to. They should have had more ccts coming in through the bottom or on the left hand side..

 

[Rob1984]

Going to the wholesalers and them not having something basic you need to finish a job, actually had one a while back that had no double sockets of any kind I mean come on your a bloody electrical wholesaler, Mabey I ask too much I mean there bloody rare those allusive double sockets lol.

 

[Deleted member 9648]

All those lazy mums who insist on driving their little darlings 1/2 mile to school - clogging up all the roads ..............

joggers (in training for a heart attack).

Yep....and whats really irritating is that once the sprogs are out of the way those mums turn into joggers, all skimpy tops and tight lycra....flouncing along the path causing traffic mayhem and giving me neck ache.
Hate them...