Spot The Fault™

[Andy™]

WTF were they thinking

 

[Badger]

well they could have cut that wooden board a bit tighter to the fuses/mcbs

 

[ProDave]

I'll bet the thought process went:  "well if it's got a wooden back......"

Actually there was probably no thought process involved at all.

Still it's marginally better than leaving it with a missing cover.

EDIT: with a grey switch it's more likely a metal clad hiding under there, so I agree WTF?

 

[Andy™]

yes, its a metal clad board

i guess this is what happens when you get a 5DW ex chippy to do the electrical work?

but going by the woodworking skills, im guesing that didnt work out to well either...

 

[batty]

What actually happened previous owner found lid wouldn't fit due to plasterboard so binned it. Next owner had brainwave and made the wooden lid saves having new fuse box fitting.

 

[Andy™]

What actually happened previous owner found lid wouldn't fit due to plasterboard so binned it. Next owner had brainwave and made the wooden lid saves having new fuse box fitting.

the plasterboard has just been installed (over top of existing plaster)

 

[ProDave]

So he's a 5DW plasterer as well :slap

Go back next week, and you'll find a bit of plasterboard as a lid for that trunking as well.

 

[NozSpark]

Yeh, right...

He'll just fill it full of muck....

 

[Blue Duck]

That one have exposed incoming terminals?

Toasty

 

[Apache]

Ok a scenario. You are at a little old ladies house. She has a minor problem you are sorting on your way home from work. You remove the cover of the CU and manage to drop it on the floor. It smashes into a million pieces. The old lady is a pensioner and scrapes by. She cannot afford a new CU. A replacement cover is not available.

What do you do?

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Ok a scenario. You are at a little old ladies house. She has a minor problem you are sorting on your way home from work. You remove the cover of the CU and manage to drop it on the floor. It smashes into a million pieces. The old lady is a pensioner and scrapes by. She cannot afford a new CU. A replacement cover is not available.

What do you do?

Bit difficult to smash a metalclad cover ;

 

[Apache]

Assume Bakelite and very delicate......

 

[Zeespark]

Install a new one and ask her if she can pay whatever she can over weeks/months. :innocent

Andy Guinness

 

[Apache]

Zee - I know what you mean, but some of these pensioners are living hand to mouth. The state pension is £113.10 per week. For ALL bills.

I'm not condoning what was done in the OP, BUT I suppose my question is could a 'home made' cover ever be suitable on a CU assuming no finger sized holes etc?

 

[Sharpend]

Surely you replace at your own expense, teach you to be clumsy!

You'll only need to do one or two like that and you'll have safer hands than the England goalkeeper.

 

[Zeespark]

Patch, the elderly can get financial help for things like this, but because they are the mend and make do type alot of the time, they wont ask for help.

Andy Guinness

 

[ProDave]

Ok a scenario. You are at a little old ladies house. She has a minor problem you are sorting on your way home from work. You remove the cover of the CU and manage to drop it on the floor. It smashes into a million pieces. The old lady is a pensioner and scrapes by. She cannot afford a new CU. A replacement cover is not available.

What do you do?

Replace with the cover from one of the scrap ones I haven't got round to throwing away yet.

 

[Nicky Tesla]

easy---march her down to the nearest cash machine and make her pay!

 

[ayjay]

old boards were made of wood with a glass  front

modern ones are plastic

moderate that