Hall of Shame Photos

[Wully]

On the back of a thread I started I thought I'd start this since there doesn't seem to be one and I'm sure we all have a right good few that would scare those in the know.

How many supplies does one need!

Cable Raggle Extra

Not so much Shame but old

Any idea of age?

 

[RWJ]

Ohhhh I've got loads to add!!!!

Thanks for the post Wully!

 

[Des 56]

Ohhhh I've got loads to add!!!!

Thanks for the post Wully!

Bring em on

 

[RWJ]

Bring em on

Will find some

Have to be careful though, I had to get the last lot I posted removed because Enviro Health decided to prosecute the "owner of said tested install".

 

[Paul.M]

A "professional" company's idea of a c/u change? They gave me 2 hours to run a new cooker circuit, 2 x FCU's in the kitchen with chasing out and "sort out" /wire up the cu?????

Cu not straight, half on half off the back board, rats nest of cables resting on the incomer and gas pipe! New bonding and main earth to rod could have been done by Picasso. O the only straight bit is my 6mm t+e at the top. I no longer work for them!

 

[RWJ]

A "professional" company's idea of a c/u change?

Cu not straight, half on half off the back board, rats nest of cables resting on the incomer and gas pipe! New bonding and main earth to rod could have been done by Picasso. O the only straight bit is my 6mm t+e at the top.

Think it's more salvador dali..... No tell a lie Escher

 

[Knobhead]

Just one from the industrial side. This switch board was so rotten it fell over when I tried to turn a switch off. Try being the operative word, it took me 3 days to get in to it to change a bl**dy fuse.

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[Engineer54]

Just one from the industrial side. This switch board was so rotten it fell over when I tried to turn a switch off. Try being the operative word, it took me 3 days to get in to it to change a bl**dy fuse.

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Hahaha!! haven't seen switchboards like that since i first started in the industry, ....and they were replaced before any chance of working on them, along with all the old MV oil breakers!!!

I bet there are still a good few of them about too, in the older but cleaner, and less corrosive factories...

 

[Des 56]

They may look a bit tatty, and may have been installed well over half a century or more

At least the switchgear was robust ,mostly cast iron,corrosion has taken its toll,but its still interesting to come upon these installations, they do at least jog the memory

 

[Daveyboy]

cpc feeding a metal gledhill boiler

 

[Daveyboy]

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[Daveyboy]

This is a pic of a new build in hackney

 

[Daveyboy]

cctv screens x5 in total new build in concierge office.

 

[Wully]

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This is a pic of a new build in hackney

The famous how close to a sink can a socket outlet be? Can anyone point to an exact regulation?

 

[liam b]

"While your here can you have a look at why that socket doesnt work?"

 

[BOROROBBO]

just some i have came accross in the last few months:

This one was a property i had done lots of work in and required a full domestic so i knew everything was fine since i had left it. a month later and the tennant moves in and complains of a tripping RCD. turned out after i had done my work in there the boarders had been in and put new ceilings up (screwed new boards over old ceiling instead of ripping old ceiling down first) the result was things like this on 3 different legs of 2 circuits!

This one was just a reported high CPC reading on kitchen ring and discovered it while doing a kitchen rewire

This was my favourite to date. it was a house of horrors, DIY EVERYWHERE, with end to end readings being far too low for the size of the house on down ring. low IR's all over the place on 4-5 of the circuits. after tracing cables all over the house i discovered this (to be fair to whoever had done it, before i took this photo the junction box (without lid) was insulated.................. with a carrier bag!)

These are just random ones that haven't caused much harm:

shaver point, cables boarded tight against backbox

just take the pipe right across where my boiler spur is going why dont you!!!

the cable was glanded and and into the DB (wholesaler was waiting on cleats coming in at the time) so the joiner decided the cable would look better over the top of his shelf rather than against the wall. (also, kewtech testers, which you can see in pic, worst tester i have ever used)

hope you enjoyed them, i will update with more as i get them haha

 

[hamish mcchlery]

this just some of the faults on this job, u may need to look closely. If you have GOT to use trunking at least make it neat!

 

[RWJ]

Why has one of the mods not made this post sticky yet?????

LENNY you asleep again.....

 

[stretchyboy]

This is the fault I traced following a kitchen installation by a general kitchen fitter.......
luckily i had a cable tracer on me that day and the house had an RCD, even one for
the whole house. Guy had told the customer that it would stop tripping out when
the wall dried out !!!!
Then I looked at the connection behind the cooker...........

Then at the connection to the cooker itself..............

 

[stretchyboy]

This is a light fitting that I came across that had been recently fitted by 'an electrician friend'.......



Notice the blue sleeving on the switched live, the connector blocks that are not rated for the temparature, the 'green only' sleeving to the cpc's. but best of all the way they didn't connect the cpc to the earth terminal at all and this was in a bathroom !!!