Connections - Spring 2011

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This issue’s crop of dodg T dodgy installations Lively business ffeatures (1-4) an innovative approach 2 tto lighting; a socket installed in the hot Electrical contractors are 5 4 1 p used to having to negotiate pipework under a combi-boiler; a brass amp holder with no earth ear wire and the spare earthing terminal their way around the batten lamp us to join the live wires together; a “faulty” light fitting at a timber dust contents of customers’ used ex lofts, but Dave Hall of extraction yard; (5-8) an RCD remounted upside down with the supply tails a load connections wired into the lower terminals to prevent it tripping; Abbeywood Electrical in and th Hinckley, Leicestershire, got the scene at a newbuild house where the customer complained of a burning s more than he bargained for smell; a light fitting with loop feed connected to the earth terminal; and a consumer unit with exposed meter tails and reverse polarity. when he put his hand on Thanks to thos what turned out to those who sent these in: Paul Toye of Brighton-based Synergy Don’t forget Home Solutions; Graham Phillips of G Phillips in Shoreham-by-Sea; to send be an unexploded Current Affa World War Two John Richardson of Ascot-based John Richardson; Gary Cross of Gary irs any pictures that pipebomb Cross Electrical in Hainault, Essex; Ian Campbell of I R Campbell and have made you smile in during a house Co in Sheffield; Chris Smith of Leicester-based C.D. Smith Electrical the line of w ork and let us kn rewire in Balsall Contractors; Paul Ray of Paul Ray Electrical Services in Hednesford; ow of any hidden talen Common, West and Eddie Von Lydden of Eddie’s Electrical in Blackpool. ts or charity initiatives. E Midlands. mail editor@ niceicconnect “Most people ions.com have got junk in Marathon effort their roofs, but this An electrical contractor from Shrewsbury aims to was absolutely full of old raise over £2,000 for the Epilepsy Society by taking part stuff,” he says. “I put my hand in the London Marathon. on something that felt like Paul Matthews, a director at NICEIC Approved Contractor Williams and Picken, decided to enter the event after one of his a piece of twin daughters was diagnosed with the condition in 2009. pipe. At first “It was a really hard time, but the nurses were remarkable I thought it and I thought I’d try to give something back,” he says. “I did the was a shell, Great North Run last year and raised £620 but my main aim was but what to do the marathon. made me a “Everything is going well with my daughter now but people bit more wary was that it had turn a blind eye to epilepsy so I wanted to raise awareness.” Paul is currently running 20 miles a red top and was completely in around three hours and hopes to complete the marathon in under four. Anyone interested in sealed. When I realised sponsoring Paul should visit http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/paulmatthews. what it was I put it back and reported it.” The elderly householder Domestic service propositioned by a customer was away on holiday but It sounds like something while, er, on the job. company director Caroline out of Desperate Housewives, The survey goes on to Cannings got in touch with but it seems a few people say that only one in 10 have the daughter and informed have rather more on their succumbed to such amorous the police. The next day the mind than getting their advances, but, says one bomb disposal unit was called circuits tested when they chivalrous respondent, “to out and safely detonated the call out an electrician. be honest the ones who bomb in a nearby field. Research by localtraders. have made it obvious haven’t What’s the strangest item com found more than exactly been lookers – it you’ve come across in the one in 10 (11 per cent) of hasn’t been difficult to resist line of work? Email editor@ tradespeople had been that sort of temptation”. niceicconnections.com.

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