Saturday, September 20th, 2008
DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
Bad DIY
I offer this piece of advice for all those who have a friend, work collegue, mate, uncle or cousin who loves to dish out DIY advice with no actual training in the field. DO NOT blindly take that advice without using a bit of common ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
Cowboy Heating Engineers
Always ISOLATE before you INVESTIGATE. Why? As shown in this weeks photo the heating engineer decided that running 240 volt down an earth cable was acceptable. What's that mean to you?
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
Cowboy Electrician
We were re-adding two double sockets to a bedroom which had been removed when some walls were recently rearranged. When we pulled up the floor boards we found signs of faulty electrics left over by the last person to touch the electrics.
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
Cowboy Plumbers
For the uninitiated, un-vented cylinders like the one pictured above are like pressure cookers. They are usually found in small offices such as the one above to supply hot water to bathroom or kitchen basins. Unfortunately, being under pressure they could explode if not for ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
Cowboy Plumbers
If you look closely you'll see the top 12 inches of a waste pipe sticking out of a ceiling in a pair of toilets in a warehouse. The waste pipes empty directly into a roof space with no purpose built ventilation to remove the sewer ...
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
Cowboy Plumbers
We recently moved our clients bathroom from it's existing location to another room in the house. As we pulled up the old bathroom floor to remove pipe work we found this!
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
Cowboy Electrician
The first picture (it's a bit grainy) is of a switched spur on the wall and underneath that is a double socket. We were on site to modify the electrics for a kitchen refurb and when we opened the existing electrics we knew something ...
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