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-Electrical manufacturers who don't design their products with installer in mind
-people who cut cables too short in backboxes
-apprentices who are scared of heights
-those black drill bits that snap if you look at them the wrong way
 
Sticky accessories in filthy kitchens
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The guy that done this:

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Three lights, two switches, working through spaghetti-cable going all over the place, three-cores with yellows snipped off, T&E with cpc used as another core, eight junction boxes with extra connector blocks wedged in, and to top it off the pong of a rotting dead mouse!
 
Effing builders (again)

a) They've managed to lose one of my downlight cables in the ceiling, meaning they must have (for some reason) taken it out of its clips and moved it.

b) A while ago they picked up my grey jumper mistaking it for one of theirs (odd, as mine is ten-year-old size), now it has come back, absolutely covered in hard blobs of plaster.

Next time the cat does a whoopsie on the carpet I will chuck it in the back of their van.
 
Fitting fiddly arsed light fittings in old people's houses where they have the heating on constantly.....I know you feel the cold more than younger folks but it s approx 200 degrees Celsius up here and this light you bought is a PITA to fit....although I am glad you have the heating on and can afford to do so.....
 
I feel your pain, GayOwl, a while ago I had to change around 200 downlights in an old folks home, it was like spending 3 months in an oven.

Here's one from last night: Removing two dustpans-full of mouse droppings out of a dingy meter cupboard before I could start work, and I'd left my beloved head torch on another site, so with these stupid new colours which look all the same in low light it was pretty much guess-work which colour went to which phase. If a 3ph cooker is wired backwards will it cool stuff down?
 
I hate working with poorly manufactured cables where it's almost impossible to strip the sheath because it's stuck to the insulation on internal wires. I also hate working in machinery where you get cut to ribbons by the sharp cut edges of panels that haven't been deburred properly and end up bleeding everywhere.
 
Re: 16yr old looking for an electrical apprenticeship in the Leeds/bradford area

People who really do not have a clue on how to wire and tie wrap to cable basket. It winds me up so much that they cross sides and have loads of tie wraps on corners and don't cut old ones off or stick to their own rail!
 
Inappropriately large earth sleeving. It is wasteful, awkward to deal with, and looks a mess.

I was annoyed to find them using huge sleeving for no reason at college, and when I pointed out they make 2mm sleeving which fits all T&E up to 6mm they took up my suggestion and bought that instead. Then I suggested they could sell all the cable that gets ripped off the walls (IE 100% of every drum) and get the value for scrap, which they now do.

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Stroppy said:
Here's one from today: on a kitchen re-wire me leaving all the light cables in the multi-gang switch so I can disconnect them in order and note down what does what, but no, the builder has hacked them all off (not that he needed to anyway) so now I have about 10 1mm t+e's which all look the same and no clue as to which one does what. What a pain in the cod-piece...
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well just go round and hack off all the handles to his trowels/floats etc.....
whats right for one n all that lot....
 
dropping a screw in a room with nothing it on a black floor

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dropping a screw in a room with nothing it on a black floor
 
1) Light fittings and fans etc with terminals that are too small to fit a doubled over conductor in
2) The plumber today who ran his pipe through one wall at 470mm and only realised his mistake when he carried on piping into the next room right accross the face of our socket.
3) LSF cable thats a nightmare to strip
 
People walking out in front of the motor whilst texting then getting upset because the noise of my horn put them of texting as saving their lives come second to the PRECIOUS ie the phone. How sad
 
plumber who turn up on a Saturday for a Friday job and rubbish's your work to the client and then claims that the basement car park has a massive puddle because of a weep on a stopcock, that he claims to fix and is still leaking, leaving me tapping up a report to g-d know when to cover my assETS ggggrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!
 
Females who phone you during a European cup game or final because hubby is watching the match and they thought it would be an idea to call me.
 
YoungBart said:
Sorry, Didn't so much mean doubling over, More meant doubling up (i.e. 2 cables) we use a brand of emergency light that it's nearly impossible to get two twins into it.
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Ah yes, that is a pain in the hoop. Stick the two into a reasonable-sized connector block, then a single into the silly small hole. :)
 
Just got another one, people who run cable for downlights before the ceiling is put up and push the cables in the gaps between the joists then clamp the plasterboard on top making it impossible (and dangerous) to try and change.
 
* Cheap crap SWA that the cores are almost welded the the outer insulation

* "Can't you just take the power form the closest light switch" (13Amp socket) Clever clients

* Fitting certain pelmit lights under kitchen cupboards

* plumbers who suggest electrical towel rails because the forgot to run pipes for

* SOME Easton Europeans who have very very little electrical knowledge who will never say i cant do that or i should not be touching that, basically extending a fp200 2.5 with 1.0 flex because its the same colour! ( oh and charing £2 to do it)

Rant over
 
-constantly searching for a new job

-when accepted for that new job, its the arse-end of the job ie the last week or 2 before completion, where everything is rushed and deadline must be met!!!
 
Getting to the petrol station - you have a certain routine.

Fill up - Pick Paper - Get Sarnie - Get Crisps - Get choccy bar - get scratch card.

Now, when you get there and your favourite choccy bar isn't in stock, and you have to settle for the still nice but still #2 bar.

That's definitley a pet hate.
 
Those new Socket outlets that are really thin that customers insist on changing the old ones for and will not fit nicely into a 25mm box
 
markc123 said:
Getting to the petrol station - you have a certain routine.

Fill up - Pick Paper - Get Sarnie - Get Crisps - Get choccy bar - get scratch card.

Now, when you get there and your favourite choccy bar isn't in stock, and you have to settle for the still nice but still #2 bar.

That's definitley a pet hate.
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queuing at the pump whilst her from the car in front, blocking the pump, is doing her shopping in the filling station over priced mini-mart.
 
1. earths twisted in sleeving also
2. small PL downlights balanced on the remains on an old broken large PL downlight (today's fun)
3. Cheap and nasty SWA Glands
4. cheap sockets
5. Can you knock the VAT off?
6. I've just decorated...
7. CFL bulbs (all too many times find CU's in cupboards and the only light is some worn out CFL that takes 20 seconds to come on and forever to get brighter than a damp match....)
 
inappropriately small earth sleeving (i.e. earth from 16mm2 T+E split into 3 separate sleeved bundles, connected to the same earth terminal)....it does come in sizes bigger than 2mm....
 
Twisted earths in same bit of sleeving (bet that,s been said a lot already)
Plasterer's who fill up boxes.
Consumer units in kitchen cupboards, usually the one with every handheld appliance known to man obstructing them!
Flat plate chrome, and rope edge brass because it look's awful.

There are lots more but cant think right now
 
of all the hates, nothing gets higher than a 5 on a scale of 10, where plumbers score 10.
 
Chipboard flooring arghhhhhhhhh awful stuff.

Making a list for the wholesalers only to find a few hours later when going through your materials that you forgot 1 damned item!
 
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