Past Repairs, renovations and upgrades
Bathroom renovation. Installed socket outlets, new extractor fan, towel rail and demister mirrors with back lighting.
Decorative path and deck lighting.
Bathroom renovation. Installed a heater, towel rail, lights and a variable speed extractor fan.
New towel rail and replaced the wall light.
Installed a panel heater.
A large chandelier with multiple light fixtures hanging from a high ceiling in a hallway.
LED path lighting
Modern bathroom with heated towel rack and curved glass shower enclosure on tiled floor.
Rail-less electric towel warmer and black
Replaced old grungy outlet for the new PDL Iconic series.
Replaced old halogen lights for LED downlights.
Replaced halogen lights for LED light fittings.
Kitchen renovation. Added and Relocated socket outlets. New oven and hob. Added more LED lights as requested.
Installed wifi LED light fittings.
Installed a range hood from Robinhood.
Kitchen fit out.
Replaced dining room lights.
Repairs
TRS wiring behind an old switchboard.
Point of entry damaged in the wind.
A junction box installed in the underside of a desk. Some knocked over a cup of coffee and flooded the junction box shorting out the power circuits inside.
Fault on the light fitting caused the circuit breaker to trip. Incorrect lamp was installed in the fitting and insulation had been put over the top of the fitting when insulation covering the fitting is not allowed.
No hot water. I found that water from a past leak had gotten into the switch board and had gone right through the hot water circuit breaker causing it to fail internally.
Removed old light fitting to discover that there was a live exposed, unterminated tail sticking out.
Every time something was plugged in the RCD would trip. I found that the Socket outlet Phase and Earth had been transposed.
Traked down a fault to where a mouse had chewed through the wire and it started shorting out.
Incorrectly installed recessed light fitting burning the ceiling joist. Replaced the fitting with a 0mm clearance light fitting.
Hot water element where the neutral was loose causing it to arc and eventually fail.
Socket outlet with the neutral and earth transposed.
Old hot water kit where the terminations were loose.
Dodgy cable join.
Downlight next to where a fire broke out.
Incorrectly installed downlight caused fire.
Resulting damage from an incorrectly installed downlight.
DIY range hood vent. 160mm fan in an old nail box.
Loose bus-bar arced melted all the circuit breakers.
GNDN (Goes Nowhere Does Nothing) wire tapping into a old lighting circuit.
Burn't switchboard wiring.
Close-up of a wall socket with an exposed electrical outlet and an "OVEN" switch.
Close-up of a circuit breaker with wires inside an electrics panel
WTF!
DIY junction
Rolls eyes.
Got mice in the oven.
Baten holder in the rain.
Rough neighbourhood.
A blue cocktail umbrella covering exposed electrical wires on a brick wall next to a security floodlight.
DIY switch board. Tenant complained of getting shocks off of the stove. Wiring too small and the MEN link left out of the Neutral & Earth bus. (Circled in red)
Someone (not me) ran out of junction boxes. The lighting circuit for the outside PIR sensor and light joined together in an empty jar of 3/4 inch screws.
Socket outlet with the earth conductor not connected.
A person balancing on top of a tall stack of boxes placed on a lift inside a building, reaching towards the ceiling lights. Caption: 'If he only had something to lift him up a little higher...'
Customer replaced a plug but mixed up the conductor. Gave himself a shock that put three people in hospital. The earth conductor is connected to the phase (live) pin of the plug.
*facepalm*
Fuse kept blowing so the owner put in a solid chunk of copper. The power circuit was overloaded and had melted and shorted out the service fuse out on the street. Fortunately the street fuse blew before it started a fire but not before damaging other circuits running next to it. Entire power circuit and other the circuits damaged were rewired. The insurance company didn't pay out and cancelled their policy.
Outlets and lights installed in a flimsy MDF cupboard.
Messy electrical wiring setup with outlets and plugs on a wooden board
Latex glove over the smoke detector.
Live exposed cable join in the ceiling space of a commercial building.
Light cable too close to an old halogen light fitting.
Halogen light fitting too close to timbre.
Open electrical distribution board with circuit breakers and a meter inside.
Loose connection.
Incorrect lamp wattage in a halogen wall fitting. The fitting was rated for 60w and had a 150w installed.
Hot water kit switch went up in smoke.
Dodgy cable join.