Un-Effing Believable!

[Badger]

Yes and a bit of 50mm duct tape over it to keep some of the plaster of the coiled up tails, out of the box and stop the plaster clogging up the 3.5mm screw holes.

thanks for that tip roy ill take that onboard

 

[sprocketflup]

I always thought it was common courtesy to wrap cables into the backboxes if Im honest, cant remember where I was taught that tho

 

[binky]

that's what i normally do - plasterer has no reason to fiddle then.

 

[Jono Pashley]

Remember that mutual respect thing? Yeah, that's why plasterers don't fill my boxes, rather they usually clean the boxes out for me if they have inadvertantly got a bit of plaster in there.

No point trying to convince me it is a good idea to leave cables out, I have never met a decent electrician or plasterer that would agree with that.

Plasterers with respect for anyone else? Where do you find those....

 

[binky]

they do exist, one lad even wiped some wet palster off my tool bag

 

[steptoe]

that's what i normally do - plasterer has no reason to fiddle then.

Probably an apprenticeship and not a 5 week course...... 

Plasterers with respect for anyone else? Where do you find those....

Proper trades working with proper trades,

Not much of that about these days mind,

I'll take some pix next time I'm on the job I'm doing at mo with proper trades on everything. 

 

[andyh86]

Nice...

 

[revjames]

I was on a site and had 1st fixed and plasterer was fitting new ceiling plasterboards. I pointed to my lighting cables and asked him to make sure he left them sticking out from the ceiling. He was from NI by the way. Came back after lunch and he had boarded and skimmed. No sign of any cables so I asked him where they were. His answer was priceless... (imagine NI accent as you read this) "surely you have a method of detecting the wires with a lil bleeper or sumtn....." I said "yeah, I'll show you my lil bleeper" I proceeded to my toolbox and got a 4lb hammer a smashed a head sized hole in the ceiling, popped my head in, located the cables and placed them where they needed to be... His jaw was on the floor by now. But he never again ever did that.

 

[Blue Duck]

I was on a site and had 1st fixed and plasterer was fitting new ceiling plasterboards. I pointed to my lighting cables and asked him to make sure he left them sticking out from the ceiling. He was from NI by the way. Came back after lunch and he had boarded and skimmed. No sign of any cables so I asked him where they were. His answer was priceless... (imagine NI accent as you read this) "surely you have a method of detecting the wires with a lil bleeper or sumtn....." I said "yeah, I'll show you my lil bleeper" I proceeded to my toolbox and got a 4lb hammer a smashed a head sized hole in the ceiling, popped my head in, located the cables and placed them where they needed to be... His jaw was on the floor by now. But he never again ever did that.

Now that is a proper reply! :lol:

 

[kerching]

Ah yes, the 4lb cordless bleeper!

I also have a 10,000V grafter which does the same job BUT does not need a pair of steps for stage 1 of the process

Similar to this beastie...BUT a PROPER make