Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

[Pete999]

Its a detail of "Water Lily Pond" - has that effect don't it ? I'll guess at $50m ...

Well I never, lol

 

[telectrix]

wouldn't give 50p for that crap. give me Dali any day.

 

[Pete999]

It's all paint to me

 

[rsgaz]

Not sure why these two items need retesting next month...

...seeing as though they are just a couple of cable tidies laying on the floor next to a data rack!!

There was another 5 or 6 in the rack that had been tested too!!

(unique numbers edited out due to OCD)

Gaz

 

[freddo]

Lol I've also seen TV and VCR remote controls with their own pat stickers.

 

[Flanders]

Not sure why these two items need retesting next month...

...seeing as though they are just a couple of cable tidies laying on the floor next to a data rack!!


There was another 5 or 6 in the rack that had been tested too!!

(unique numbers edited out due to OCD)

Gaz

Now I have seen patch panels, telephones all types of elv stuff but that a first for cable tidys , brilliant , I'd love to see how they are listed on the report .

 

[SparkyChick]

So, I've just started doing some work for a local plumbing firm. Got a call this morning "can you come and install a wireless thermostat". Yeah no problem I think. Get to the site and apparently this system is fully installed and working.

This was what I found in the wiring center.

On the basis of that fine piece of work, I decided to dig a little deeper.

The full list of faults went like this:-

• No earth from the FCU supplying the heating
• Existing wireless thermostat was not connected - Cables were twisted together behind it's mounting socket... bare, no tape
• No demand connections to the boiler only the power supply - The demand control link was still in place so this thing has been running since it was turned on maintaining the temperature of the bypass loop

I don't do a lot of heating wiring, but I can follow a wiring diagram.

Not bad for my third attempt at central heating wiring if I do say so myself. Still room for improvement, but it all works as it should through a wireless programmer and a pair of wireless thermostats (one remote for the cylinder and one for a room). And I got a decent Zs at the boiler, so it's a winner

 

[freddo]

Where did all the cord clamps go?!

 

[Dave OCD]

So, I've just started doing some work for a local plumbing firm. Got a call this morning "can you come and install a wireless thermostat". Yeah no problem I think. Get to the site and apparently this system is fully installed and working.

This was what I found in the wiring center.

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On the basis of that fine piece of work, I decided to dig a little deeper.

The full list of faults went like this:-

• No earth from the FCU supplying the heating
• Existing wireless thermostat was not connected - Cables were twisted together behind it's mounting socket... bare, no tape
• No demand connections to the boiler only the power supply - The demand control link was still in place so this thing has been running since it was turned on maintaining the temperature of the bypass loop

I don't do a lot of heating wiring, but I can follow a wiring diagram.

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Not bad for my third attempt at central heating wiring if I do say so myself. Still room for improvement, but it all works as it should through a wireless programmer and a pair of wireless thermostats (one remote for the cylinder and one for a room). And I got a decent Zs at the boiler, so it's a winner

Nothing wrong with that at all, far better than most that I see, my only suggestion would be to fit a small piece of brown sleeving on the grey and black permanent & switched lives- and fit it close to the terminations.

 

[Dave OCD]

Where did all the cord clamps go?!

A wet pants has been there before SC I expect they went in the bin.

 

[Specialist]

Nice one SC, much neater.

 

[SparkyChick]

Where did all the cord clamps go?!

That my dear is a bloody good question... if I ever bump into the plumber who created the original abomination I'll ask him

To be fair, they are probably in the floor void with all the other rubbish and rubble he created and chucked in there (much to the annoyance of the householder).

 

[SparkyChick]

Nothing wrong with that at all, far better than most that I see, my only suggestion would be to fit a small piece of brown sleeving on the grey and black permanent & switched lives- and fit it close to the terminations.

I did add some brown sleeving, but it fell about when I was cable wrangling, but it is there (at both ends of the cables)

 

[DPG]

That my dear is a bloody good question... if I ever bump into the plumber who created the original abomination I'll ask him

To be fair, they are probably in the floor void with all the other rubbish and rubble he created and chucked in there (much to the annoyance of the householder).

Annoys me when people just dump stuff in floor voids and wherever. All you've got to do is have a box or a bag to stick the rubbish in as you're going.

 

[Specialist]

That my dear is a bloody good question... if I ever bump into the plumber who created the original abomination I'll ask him

To be fair, they are probably in the floor void with all the other rubbish and rubble he created and chucked in there (much to the annoyance of the householder).

If you ever meet him, just remember: Choking the life out of him is just a tad illegal

 

[SparkyChick]

Thanks chaps

To be brutally honest, it scared the carp out of me when I got there and saw it. From now on I don't think I'll be quite so intimidated by central heating wiring.

Bit of a mixed bag today though, had my first *BANG*. Replacing a light fitting for a landlord customer in one of her rentals, connected up, Zs was sweet, attached to ceiling, put the lights in and turn it on *BANG*. Looks like sharp edges cut into the poxy little cables running to the fittings. Suffice to say a ceiling rose is going up next week before I do an EICR on the place (no reason to do one other than she's not had one done on that property so she wants to get her paperwork in order).

And to top it off, I got rear ended in traffic crossing the bridge into Penarth on the way to this heating job, so a really mixed bag

 

[Dave OCD]

I did add some brown sleeving, but it fell about when I was cable wrangling, but it is there (at both ends of the cables)

Ah sorry ! I was operating minus my reading glasses, always a gamble.

 

[SparkyChick]

If you ever meet him, just remember: Choking the life out of him is just a tad illegal

Only if he turns blue and dies... if I keep a check on his pulse and release a little when his pulse gets weak I should be alright

 

[Dave OCD]

Annoys me when people just dump stuff in floor voids and wherever. All you've got to do is have a box or a bag to stick the rubbish in as you're going.

Exactly mate, it's the same in loft spaces where you find a junction box and next to it are all the stripped insulation ends, we are surrounded by idleness !

 

[telectrix]

killing a wet-pants ain't a crime, it's a service to humankind.