Pet Hates

[tbs1983]

1.Twisted Earths,
2. dodgy threads on metal back boxes,
3. that horrible cellophane and foil inside some brands of FP200,
4. cheap soft brass terminal screws on switches/sockets etc.
5. snapping small terminal screwdrivers cos I'm too lazy to get the bigger one out of my toolbox!

 

[amlu]

wago lighting connectors coming handy with crappish lights... just dump the supplied chocblock.

 

[KFH]

wago lighting connectors coming handy with crappish lights... just dump the supplied chocblock.

I must admit to loving Wago connectors (I know I am a pervert ). Still have difficult with some where the short length of leads and size of the Wagos makes it difficult to fit everything in the space available and I still have to make a hole in the ceiling to push a Wago box in with the loop through wiring.

That's my other pet hate - cheap crap, that is often very expensive, that has had no thought/design given to installation or maintenance and usually has to be replaced in a couple of years. You can't make money installing it because of the time it takes and you end up replacing many under guarantee.

 

[BlueToBits]

"Thanks for the quote. Now could you give me a list of materials and re-quote for labour only"

 

[Tiberius]

Knock out sections that don't knock.....

 

[Welchyboy]

TWISTED EARTHS! Without a doubt no.1 (especially in a 3phase board)

old slotted screws, especially rusty ones

leaving the lid of your screw box undone when you pick it up

Trying terminate cables into old wylex and similar boards when the earth bar is impossible to reach

drilling out a downlighter hole when the a previous builder has swept all the crap and brick dust under the floorboards above

people always on the ponce for cable, boxes etc

 

[PEM]

1. CU where just about every cable is too short.
2. Part P, why !!! Just paperwork for Councils.
3. The client who never offers a coffee.
4. Places so dirty you feel obliged to clean before you start so you don't stick to anything.
5. The "oh could you just do this as well in the price".
6. The French.
7. Probably more to come
Cheers

 

[VoltzElectrical]

Some of the posts on this forum!

 

[telectrix]

1. CU where just about every cable is too short.
2. Part P, why !!! Just paperwork for Councils.
3. The client who never offers a coffee.
4. Places so dirty you feel obliged to clean before you start so you don't stick to anything.
5. The "oh could you just do this as well in the price".
6. The French.
7. Probably more to come
Cheers

8. plumbers.

 

[Swicade]

Customers
Ikea
Cyclists
B&Q
Customers (again)
CEF
Price of Diesel

 

[44ALLAN]

Rich twts who get away with murder...........oh sorry wrong forum:censored:

 

[sparks55]

Gripper rods

 

[DNS1]

People who cut the cables far too short in back boxes so once the switch/socket is taken off it's never going back on again
People who expect you to do a rewire without removing all their crap first
Cheap screwdrivers
Cheap tools in general (my dad is a nightmare for buying power tools in Aldi "cos they were cheap"
Realising at the end of the job that I've left one of my tools under a floorboard or in the loft...

 

[Welchyboy]

When they don't seem to ever bring out amendments you can simply print off and add to your existing regs books anymore and you have to continually keep buying new regs/OSG/GN1,2,3,4,5,6,78 etc etc even though 99% of it is exactly the same
just to please the NIC

 

[partypest]

1: short cables in anything.
2: cheap light fittings
3: all the clients cr@p that's in the way.
4: cpc's twisted together in one sleeve.
5: chocolate terminals
6: HMRC
7: the price of fuel
8: cutting holes in ceilings
9: CSA's bigger than 4mm
10: working in the cold

Not in any particular order!

 

[Stroppy]

Metal boxes with the vertical oval fixing hole the same side as the adjustable lug, making one side have two adjustments and the other none. What a stupid design, by someone who has clearly never installed one.