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

[Darkwood]

Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.



I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. mg_smile:

 

[Wilko]

Was it loose, or overloaded do you think?

 

[Jamchiv01]

Loose or faulty main switch because its a 1 bedroom flat with a total of 6 sockets on a ring, 1 cooker point, immersion heater and 5 lights. The tails were 25mm

 

[Rpa07]

@Jamchiv01 where have you been lately - its been quiet! Have you been busy burning toast neutrals? Still got that Tux on we see, get out of your work clothes!

 

[Jamchiv01]

Just been busy with work and my logbook, all I need is a photo of me terminating a DB and I can hand it in on Friday then they send off for my certificates. I already have my AM2 certificate next to me.

PS - I probably wasn't even alive when that was installed.

 

[Dave OCD]

I remember fitting a few around 1987-88 ish, they were quite good at the time and used to have a sticker stating they had a design centre award or something like that.

 

[freddo]

I too like those MEM boards, though the plug in MCBs for them are awful, the 3 I've come across were all jammed.

 

[freddo]

Found yesterday during a T+I, exactly as found.

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[Rpa07]

I'm so glad that I have standards and like things to be neat and correct! That is abysmal.

 

[Wilko]

Some cables have nice neat labels and then Mr Hyde was let loose on the job, by the looks.

 

[freddo]

Mr Hyde was let loose on the job

Must have been in a rage, the white lid was 6' away from the joint box!

 

[SparkyChick]

So long story short... got a call from an existing customer about an immersion heater in a rental property she owns. Gas man/plumber had told her she needed a new immersion. Checked immersion element, fine, thermostat, fine, mains in, fine, but no current flowing. CU was about 2m away, so continuity checked all conductors... line, fine, cpc, fine, neutral, nothing!

I'm thinking to myself 'I just don't get it', cable is about 3m long, no signs of damage, connections to everything fine. So starts pulling in replacement and then finds it shoots off down the other end of the property. I missed that on my initial survey as it was buried right in the eves.

Toddle off to the kitchen at the other end of the house where I find another immersion heater switch (for convenience I guess, having to walk about 5m is such a hardship). So I opens it to reveal this:-

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[DPG]

Who had cut the neutrals and why? Daz

 

[LeeH]

Ex tennant with a grudge?

 

[DPG]

Strange thing to do tho.

 

[Wilko]

Looks like a two legged rat's tooth marks on the cables ...

 

[Rpa07]

Point is - were the neutrals long enough for re termination after testing? Strange though - will you be able to find out who did it?
Put your deerstalker on and get hunting!

 

[Rpa07]

Gas man/ plumber pulling a fast one - wanted a bit of work but . . . He wouldn't have been there in the first place unless there was a fault! The plot thickens dum dum dum!

 

[SparkyChick]

What I failed to mention was the neutral was out on the switch near the tank as well, which I obviously fixed before I did a continuity check on the cable. On the switch in the kitchen however, the terminal screws were knackered and couldn't be undone... both of them! Coincidence???

Put a Wago lever in on the neutral in the kitchen as a stop gap while I sourced a new switch plate, now I have one I'm waiting for the landlord to get back to me to go and fit it.

As to who did it... god only knows. It was the gas man I think who got her to call me. Tenants reckoned they had been using it until a few weeks before, but the boiler condensate drain was blocked so that was off and they wanted a hot shower and found it wasn't working. They couldn't remember if anyone had been in other than the gas man and me, neither could she.

I'd love to know though even if just so if I'm asked by a customer for a recommendation on a plumber or gas engineer I can avoid giving the guy work. Not that I'm complaining it was easy money apart from the cost of fixing my mistake of pulling of the cable somewhat prematurely, which I didn't charge her for. Have to say it freaked her out a little bit, didn't do a lot for me either... wilful sabotage that could so easily have killed someone, and I'm there with one of the tenants, I'm thinking any minute now we're gonna get the Psycho shower scene in the airing cupboard

 

[SparkyChick]

One more. Can anyone spot what's wrong with this? Apart from the obvious ratsnest chocblock fetish the installer had. I should add, it was dubiously concealed under the mass of insulation you see behind it. I went hunting after some basic checks threw up some interesting results during a quote visit for some lighting changes

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[kingeri]

One more. Can anyone spot what's wrong with this? Apart from the obvious ratsnest chocblock fetish the installer had. I should add, it was dubiously concealed under the mass of insulation you see behind it. I went hunting after some basic checks threw up some interesting results during a quote visit for some lighting changes

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It's out of focus?

A cpc not connected?