Someone was a lucky so and so

[littlespark]

Working on a kitchen where I have to reroute the cooker cable (now extend the cooker cable)
Customer has been in the house at least 10 years, kitchen was done a good while before that.

First picture shows how NOT to run a cable down a wall.

I'm surprised it has capping on it, to be honest.

Second picture is how NOT to fix a cooker hood to the wall.

My customer removed the old hood himself.... I hope he used an insulated screwdriver.

3rd and final pic.... The damage to the cable. Outer sheath carefully stripped back. Live untouched. Neutral barely marked and cpc… 4 out of 7 cores sheared through.

This is why we have zones for running cables in. Diagonally is just a disaster waiting to happen.

 

[Tony Reidy]

Everything has become far more cut throat with pricing and time allowance.

Its cheaper to do a job right first time than try to fix it later

 

[Taylortwocities]

She put the knife in the metal knife rack that was screwed to the wall.
Not the plastic cutlery holder in the dishwasher!

Her leg was touching the dishwasher. That earthed her leg. Her hand held the knife and touched the metal knife rack on the wall that had 230volts on it due to the screw being contact with the live supply.

Understand now? Good.

 

[Taylortwocities]

The racks are made out of plastic, with little plastic wheels

She put the knife in the metal knife rack that was screwed to the wall.
Not the plastic cutlery holder in the dishwasher!

Her leg was touching the dishwasher. That earthed her leg. Her hand held the knife and touched the metal knife rack on the wall that had 230volts on it due to the screw being contact with the live supply.

Understand now? Good.

 

[Charlie_]

Yes I do understand now,thanks, just the way you explained the story..

She put the knife on the rack not in it.
Depends how you read it.
Understand?? Good.

No need to be rude

 

[Tony Reidy]

She put the knife in the metal knife rack that was screwed to the wall.
Not the plastic cutlery holder in the dishwasher!

Her leg was touching the dishwasher. That earthed her leg. Her hand held the knife and touched the metal knife rack on the wall that had 230volts on it due to the screw being contact with the live supply.

Understand now? Good.

So not crossbonding the metal knife rack was a bad idea

 

[Simon47]

I know this is an old thread, but ...

However.... my 'cooker switch' was actually just a double socket which matched all the other accessories in the house. I can only assume electric oven was an option, and the original buyers had gone for gas. The double socket was fed by 6mm from the 'cooker' fuse, and the 6mm link down to the cooker outlet was just coiled up behind it.

Lucky b'stard. At our last house there was a blank plate - when I looked behind it I found the ing * w***ers has just snipped the wires off a little too short to reach any switch terminals. Why do people think it's a clever idea to just snip things off as though there's no chance anyone could ever possibly change their minds and want it again
But then in a new build my mother looked at they didn't bother with a cooker circuit at all - "all gas innit"