Just ingenious...........

[magnoliafan89]

Came across this beaut today......
Just....wow

Because obviously it would've been even harder to have just moved it...

 

[ruston]

Wow is the right word lol.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Thinking: 10/10
Execution: 5/10

 

[Dave OCD]

I love the little spout where the cord exits.

 

[Silly Sausage]

I love the little spout where the cord exits.

He should've flared the end a bit, stop the cord fraying

 

[ruston]

I love the little spout where the cord exits.

It is going to keep them occupied , it is already frayed. It is innovative though.

 

[Squid]

Bet if the owner of the house had come on here asking for advice on moving the switch then there would have been umpteen pages of replies along the lines "it's notifiable" "get a professional in" "you will die in hell for your sins in depriving an electricians child to be able to eat this Christmas" so on and so forth..........

;o))))))

 

[magnoliafan89]

I love the little spout where the cord exits.

That was what tickled me too lol

 

[streamer]

Unbelievable - a square cornered switch on a round cornered patress box.

 

[Deleted account]

Thinking: 10/10
Execution: 5/10

I'd go complete opposite thinking 5/10 & execution 10/10.

 

[Deleted account]

Unbelievable - a square cornered switch on a round cornered patress box.

Definately the biggest concern I have with this install.

 

[rsgaz]

I love the little spout where the cord exits.

I think that was plan B! Looks to me that this little angled groove was cut on purpose and not just the wood chipping. Plan A for the cord...

 

[KEV 1 N]

I love the little spout where the cord exits.

It reminds me of working in a very old large house, where under the floor the wire strings were ran for the servant bell pulls

 

[Squid]

It reminds me of working in a very old large house, where under the floor the wire strings were ran for the servant bell pulls

Wire strings?

 

[ruston]

Old servant bell systems . Some of them are works of art.
Lead weights to keep them taught and brass pulley wheels to change directions . The boards themselves are the works of classic tradesmen . A real art.

 

[MFS Electrical]

Old servant bell systems . Some of them are works of art.
Lead weights to keep them taught and brass pulley wheels to change directions . The boards themselves are the works of classic tradesmen . A real art.

I’ve never seen one in real life but I’d like to. Old stuff like this intrigues me and i like to wonder who actually came up with some of the genius ideas.

 

[ruston]

I’ve never seen one in real life but I’d like to. Old stuff like this intrigues me and i like to wonder who actually came up with some of the genius ideas.

This particular 'house' had 6 inch cast iron pipes running through the coach house and stables heating the coaches and loose boxes . The servants quarters were in the attic , no heating and lit by candles. The servants had written their initials on the vaulted low ceilings with the heat from the candles , the wax was still on the floor . It was very eerie.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Old servant bell systems . Some of them are works of art.
Lead weights to keep them taught and brass pulley wheels to change directions . The boards themselves are the works of classic tradesmen . A real art.

The Victorians were geniuses!

 

[MFS Electrical]

This particular 'house' had 6 inch cast iron pipes running through the coach house and stables heating the coaches and loose boxes . The servants quarters were in the attic , no heating and lit by candles. The servants had written their initials on the vaulted low ceilings with the heat from the candles , the wax was still on the floor . It was very eerie.

Shivery working in there? I’ve been in a few places like that in my time worked in the old clock belltowers and in old police stations with the old cells still intact but used as storage now the worst of them all had to be the tunnel that the executioner/funeral man used to take the bodies of the people who were hung in the public square back down underneath the town buildings in Greenock that was a very eerie place. Horrible feeling working in that tunnel unbelievably cold and strange.

 

[Silly Sausage]

This particular 'house' had 6 inch cast iron pipes running through the coach house and stables heating the coaches and loose boxes . The servants quarters were in the attic , no heating and lit by candles. The servants had written their initials on the vaulted low ceilings with the heat from the candles , the wax was still on the floor . It was very eerie.

We went down the disused tube tunnels between Borough and London Bridge. They were used as air raid shelters in WW2 and you could see the remains of the old war posters and 'graffiti' from the 'residents' at the time, where they slept, the toilet blocks etc etc. Fascinating.