Pet peeves..........................

magnoliafan89 · Mar 28, 2019

What are you're biggest pet peeves?
I only ask as i came across mine yesterday. People who when connecting sockets decide they only need about 2 inches or so of cable in the back....yeh cheers when someone else comes to take it off and has to reconnect with short cables and the terminals are always in different places to the last socket.
Even more annoying is when you find a non continuity and its the kitchen underneath a cabinet with short cables.

I hope people who do that have to poo cacti

Rant over

Deleted member 26818 · Mar 28, 2019

I hate it when people leave too much cable behind sockets.
Why can’t they cut it back to about 2 inches?

Squid · Mar 28, 2019

magnoliafan89 said:
Yes!!!
Even worse 6mm earth sleeve and two cpcs shoved in it

I know you should at least be able to get four in to it, tsk.

Edtwozeronine · Mar 28, 2019

gaz101 said:
Waiting for cis dedution sheets from october

Google suggests 'deduction' rather than dedution?

KWCFC · Mar 28, 2019

People paying 500k for a house... but don't want to pay more than £200 for alarm/CCTV to protect it...

Rpa07 · Mar 28, 2019

buzzlightyear said:
Telling the customer to move the cat litter tray ,when over flowing with S##t in the kitchen or dogs steeling your tools from a open tool box .my list could go on for ever .ps no cup tea when i walk in over the front door .and no biscuits .

Is that cup of tea and a biscuit in the same house as the cat and dog issues Buzz?

NDG Elecs · Mar 28, 2019

The IET - it's jobs for the boys, and the manufacturers are having to much input in my view.

Messy DBs where you have to diss six ccts just to find the N and CPC without getting the wander lead out.

Supposed reputable brands dumbing down their products at every opportunity until their once decent gear is tatty tat.

PIN check at Screwfix for click n collect orders. You know who the feck I am!

BQ, BG - General and Gas.

Sorting out shiet SWA connections. Invariably it's too short to easily fix. Or you have to twist into unimaginable positions to score through the steel with you hacksaw.

Customers who think I am some sort of credit broker.

Under cabinet kitchen lights where you have to adopt some kind of yoga / limbo dancing position to install.

The ever increasing size of the certs. Particularly the endless tick boxes.

There's probably more..

pirate · Mar 29, 2019

Folks who watch over your shoulder all the time...
and make helpful comments like
"Oh, so you don't double the ends over, then?"

or, yesterday, while I was twisting the ends of fine-stranded to terminate..."Oh, are you left-handed? You must be, cos I would twist the other way"

My favourite, from a "plumber"...
"Yes, these push-fit connections are brilliant, but those pipe inserts are ridiculously expensive...I never use them"

Me: "Get the f**k out of my bathroom!"

Squid · Mar 29, 2019

pirate said:
My favourite, from a "plumber"...
"Yes, these push-fit connections are brilliant, but those pipe inserts are ridiculously expensive...I never use them"

Me: "Get the f**k out of my bathroom!"

Thought being a Pirate that you would appreciated the water feature,

where you buy any chance standing over the plumbers shoulder tutting...........

Squid · Mar 29, 2019

spinlondon said:
I hate it when people leave too much cable behind sockets.
Why can’t they cut it back to about 2 inches?

Just pull the cables back and cable tie them to the central heating pipes.

magnoliafan89 · Mar 29, 2019

pirate said:
Folks who watch over your shoulder all the time...
and make helpful comments like
"Oh, so you don't double the ends over, then?"

or, yesterday, while I was twisting the ends of fine-stranded to terminate..."Oh, are you left-handed? You must be, cos I would twist the other way"

My favourite, from a "plumber"...
"Yes, these push-fit connections are brilliant, but those pipe inserts are ridiculously expensive...I never use them"

Me: "Get the f**k out of my bathroom!"

I had an old lady stood behind me with a flashlight whilst i was in the board this week. Didnt need it but thought id let her feel useful...until she rested her head on my shoulder...

Pete999 · Mar 29, 2019

magnoliafan89 said:
I had an old lady stood behind me with a flashlight whilst i was in the board this week. Didnt need it but thought id let her feel useful...until she rested her head on my shoulder...

Oye Oye fraternizing with the customers, naughty person

Squid · Mar 29, 2019

Pete999 said:
Oye Oye fraternizing with the customers, naughty person

Hopefully she didn't see the bill and had a heart attack.........

Pretty Mouth · Mar 29, 2019

magnoliafan89 said:
Yes!!!
Even worse 6mm earth sleeve and two cpcs shoved in it

You're right, that IS worse. On a ring final? In a consumer unit? Oof.

pirate · Mar 30, 2019

No, SWD, I was standing in a wet bathroom that he had just "fitted"...
He "finished" the job by fixing the shower screen to the wall on the thursday before the september bank holiday weekend. Turns out one of his frame screws punctured the cold feed. Downstairs neighbour was on holiday, neighbour downstairs also on holiday, and so my introduction to my new neighbours was on the following tuesday when I called at the flat to find them all in welly boots, wading through the damage...