Bodges you’ve seen.

[5s Alive]

dmsims said:

FB delivers:

Wasn't quite sure what I was looking at initially but that is galactically stupid! If not done by an enterprising part time school leaver or a bob a jobber (remember those?) I can't imagine any reasonable excuse.

[OMITN]

MikeStroud said:

OMITN said:

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However, no-one spotted (until after the borders had gone) the back to front plumbing of the new bathroom basin mixer tap. Left for cold, right for hot.

Oh dear in that case I am a bodger and guilty as charged!

I always plumb cold on the left and hot on the right. The reason being is as I am right handed I hold the kettle in my right hand, or a glass in my right hand etc, then use my left hand to turn the cold tap on.

The other way around would feel kack-handed to me. Appreciate most mixer taps come the other way around so it must be me that is wrong.

It’s standard worldwide for cold to be in the right. Don’t be the person who burns someone as a result..!

[Antony Moxey]

dmsims said:

FB delivers:

Colour me stupid but what are we seeing here? The post the the sign is attached to is able tied to the drain pipe by the looks of things so I don’t imagine it’s going anywhere soon.

[Flibble]

Antony Moxey said:

Colour me stupid but what are we seeing here? The post the the sign is attached to is able tied to the drain pipe by the looks of things so I don’t imagine it’s going anywhere soon.

Sign looks to be over the flue of the boiler. Presumably not much in use since the sign is still in one piece and not on fire.

[Antony Moxey]

Flibble said:

Sign looks to be over the flue of the boiler. Presumably not much in use since the sign is still in one piece and not on fire.

Ah, that’s what it is! I thought it was part of the sign rather than part of the building. I can see it now.

[Rostfritt]

Flibble said:

Sign looks to be over the flue of the boiler. Presumably not much in use since the sign is still in one piece and not on fire.

The exhaust from a combi boiler is not that hot. But it is carbon monoxide poisoning waiting to happen.

[Jakg]

Jakg said:

I've yet to find bodges in my new house... yet.

Well that didn't take long.

Junction box for a light in my garage.



Both the live and neutral are connected to a red cable and there's no sleeving in sight.

I'm 50% sure the incoming cable is backwards as well.

[scottyp123]

Jakg said:

Jakg said:

I've yet to find bodges in my new house... yet.

Well that didn't take long.

Junction box for a light in my garage.



Both the live and neutral are connected to a red cable and there's no sleeving in sight.

I'm 50% sure the incoming cable is backwards as well.

Is the brown and blue going to a switch, if so apart from the earths twisted together and not sleeved it doesn't look that bad but there is probably stuff like that all over your house.

[Jakg]

scottyp123 said:

Jakg said:

Jakg said:

I've yet to find bodges in my new house... yet.

Well that didn't take long.

Junction box for a light in my garage.



Both the live and neutral are connected to a red cable and there's no sleeving in sight.

I'm 50% sure the incoming cable is backwards as well.

Is the brown and blue going to a switch, if so apart from the earths twisted together and not sleeved it doesn't look that bad but there is probably stuff like that all over your house.

Nope, the brown/blue is to a light fitting - the other two are feed in and switch.
The entire thing was wired up in reverse polarity as well - the top left cable is the feed in, where the red live goes to the blue neutral...

[samdy]

We moved into this house in March and I'm constantly finding bodges. Here's the latest one, the front porch was converted at some point in the 90s and the old external light is now internal. I wanted to change the light so went about removing it to find it was plastered in. Someone had gone to the effort of cutting a massive hole in the plasterboard and doing this instead of just removing the fitting whilst plastering. Oh and it's been wired incorrectly too.

[Ace-T]

Had to create a bodge to fix another bodge this weekend. Gas man had to do a weird channel in the plaster and dog leg pipework due to the new cooker not having enough clearance in the back to fit against the wall (it's a good make and they will be getting some pissed off customer feedback on Monday). The cooker socket circuit was turned off and he started to channel. Next thing, pop.

Turns out some complete fking moron buried some other wires diagonally into the plaster after cutting through them anyway and putting just one connection block on with no mechanical protection whatsoever in a completely random place. Turns out it was the wiring for the cooker hood that's also wired into the upstairs light circuit. WtAF.

So bodge as per pic. Getting proper sparky in to sort and fix.

Absolute fking tt.

[classicaholic]

Ace-T said:

Had to create a bodge to fix another bodge this weekend. Gas man had to do a weird channel in the plaster and dog leg pipework due to the new cooker not having enough clearance in the back to fit against the wall (it's a good make and they will be getting some pissed off customer feedback on Monday). The cooker socket circuit was turned off and he started to channel. Next thing, pop.

Turns out some complete fking moron buried some other wires diagonally into the plaster after cutting through them anyway and putting just one connection block on with no mechanical protection whatsoever in a completely random place. Turns out it was the wiring for the cooker hood that's also wired into the upstairs light circuit. WtAF.

So bodge as per pic. Getting proper sparky in to sort and fix.

Absolute fking tt.

Socket being so far on the piss should have warned you!

[andy43]

classicaholic said:

Ace-T said:

Had to create a bodge to fix another bodge this weekend. Gas man had to do a weird channel in the plaster and dog leg pipework due to the new cooker not having enough clearance in the back to fit against the wall (it's a good make and they will be getting some pissed off customer feedback on Monday). The cooker socket circuit was turned off and he started to channel. Next thing, pop.

Turns out some complete fking moron buried some other wires diagonally into the plaster after cutting through them anyway and putting just one connection block on with no mechanical protection whatsoever in a completely random place. Turns out it was the wiring for the cooker hood that's also wired into the upstairs light circuit. WtAF.

So bodge as per pic. Getting proper sparky in to sort and fix.

Absolute fking tt.

Socket being so far on the piss should have warned you!

Be tricky covering that up. If you hammer the gas pipe flat so it’s sort of oval it’ll give enough clearance for the cable so you can skim over the lot. Failing that, some wood chip wallpaper will hide it.
Am I doing this right?

[Ace-T]

classicaholic said:

Ace-T said:

Had to create a bodge to fix another bodge this weekend. Gas man had to do a weird channel in the plaster and dog leg pipework due to the new cooker not having enough clearance in the back to fit against the wall (it's a good make and they will be getting some pissed off customer feedback on Monday). The cooker socket circuit was turned off and he started to channel. Next thing, pop.

Turns out some complete fking moron buried some other wires diagonally into the plaster after cutting through them anyway and putting just one connection block on with no mechanical protection whatsoever in a completely random place. Turns out it was the wiring for the cooker hood that's also wired into the upstairs light circuit. WtAF.

So bodge as per pic. Getting proper sparky in to sort and fix.

Absolute fking tt.

Socket being so far on the piss should have warned you!

Except the dodgy wiring is not actually connected to that socket. But I see where you are going. All sockets in the house were installed completely on the piss. We were lucky enough to win a grands worth of Schneider sockets and switches and a sparkys time to fit them all. He asked if the last sparky was pissed when he did the job. We don't know as we bought the house as is. But they certainly didn't own/use a spirit level.

[Fastpedeller]

[quote=Ace-T] Gas man had to do a weird channel in the plaster and dog leg pipework due to the new cooker not having enough clearance in the back to fit against the wall (it's a good make and they will be getting some pissed off customer feedback on Monday). /quote]

A plumber here...
What is it with product 'design' these days - I swear the 'engineers' have never tried to instal their product. I've encountered several washing machines (of the integrated variety) where there isn't sufficient clearance for a 32mm outlet pipe, which can cause a lot of grief, depending on where the existing waste pipe or drain are located. I even had one where the supply hose could only be routed along the bottom 120mm, but only on one side!
A local white goods retailer phoned me one day and asked me to take a look at the pipework in a customer's house, and he turned up at my house the next day to get my opinion on whether any of the 3 machines he had in his van would fit!
Look on the retailers or manufacturers websites and they don't give enough dimensional data, just basis stuff.

[sociopath]

Previous house had a kitchen unit inset into the chimney breast. When I removed it, it transpired that the whole stack was held up by a few pieces of 2x2.
Also had a window between the kitchen and the downstairs toilet that was covered with hardboard and painted over.

My current house has a double socket behind a radiator, I also have a mysterious switch that's live, but I have no idea what it does or where it goes. Thinking about it, my last house had one too.

[dhutch]

Fastpedeller said:

Ace-T said:

Gas man had to do a weird channel in the plaster and dog leg pipework due to the new cooker not having enough clearance in the back to fit against the wall (it's a good make and they will be getting some pissed off customer feedback on Monday).

A plumber here...
What is it with product 'design' these days - I swear the 'engineers' have never tried to instal their product. I've encountered several washing machines (of the integrated variety) where there isn't sufficient clearance for a 32mm outlet pipe, which can cause a lot of grief, depending on where the existing waste pipe or drain are located. I even had one where the supply hose could only be routed along the bottom 120mm, but only on one side!
A local white goods retailer phoned me one day and asked me to take a look at the pipework in a customer's house, and he turned up at my house the next day to get my opinion on whether any of the 3 machines he had in his van would fit!
Look on the retailers or manufacturers websites and they don't give enough dimensional data, just basis stuff.

Horrific really isn't it.

Likewise the standard thing now of fridge doors being in front of rather than flush with the counter.

[sutoka]

My uncle worked on his sons house a few years ago, was a 70's property with a fake brick panel above a fireplace which was between two rooms. He wanted it removed to put in a log burner. When the panelling was removed the gap behind was stuffed full of corrugated cardboard which sat directly above the basket.

I don't believe the previous owner ever used the fire because it would have set the whole section behind the surround on fire.

[heisthegaffer]

In our previous house there was a single socket by the front door. Once when pushing the vacuum cleaner plug in, the socket moved and made the burglar alarm ring. It was like a weird, very loud doorbell.

[NCE 61]

Removed from a previous house



The round JB which had its lid missing had the main 3 phase supply connected to the isolator via a choc block!