Oddball specifications

[Evans Electric]

Anyone done a job where you have to follow the client's specification with their own ways of doing things, Local council, hospital estates dept etc.

Heres some we thought of yesterday.

Local council ; Earth jumper wire from accessory box to metal sheathing.

All fixings to be black japanned round head screws and wooden rawlplugs.

Police work ; Specified Wandsworth sockets and light switches . Cost a fortune, old fashioned, hard to obtain, big heavy, thick cast iron boxes with 20mmthread tapped in them. Probably last forever.

The folders for the as-fixed info must have gold embossed lettering, also cost a fortune.

Hospital job: On steel conduit had to use flange couplers onto boxes. Coupler had a flanged end & came with a thick lead washer, a shakeproof washer and extra long heavy gauge bush.

An office block ; All metal window frames to be supplementry bonded .

Finally, a spark had a photo of this one. You know those door stops that are screwed to the floor, a solid rubber block inside a half-cup of aluminium. There was an earth wire coming out of the floor and crimp lugged to the cup. !!! :^O

 

[Andy™]

An office block ; All metal window frames to be supplementry bonded .

Finally, a spark had a photo of this one. You know those door stops that are screwed to the floor, a solid rubber block inside a half-cup of aluminium. There was an earth wire coming out of the floor and crimp lugged to the cup. !!! :^O

did you point out that by earthing the windows, and the screw, you were potentially introducing a potential that previously didnt exist

 

[a1]

It's a made one. (Or 5, I should say).

As for the Police one - I think that is an absolute waste of money - They are closing them down, Left, Right and center.

:_|

 

[Evans Electric]

did you point out that by earthing the windows, and the screw, you were potentially introducing a potential that previously didnt exist

It was a long time ago, they would'nt take any notice of us anyway, at that time. The practice stopped when someone highlighted the danger to a window cleaner who would be outside the zone on his ally ladder and a potential was present on the frame.

 

[Andy™]

It was a long time ago, they would'nt take any notice of us anyway, at that time. The practice stopped when someone highlighted the danger to a window cleaner who would be outside the zone on his ally ladder and a potential was present on the frame.

Did you then get sent round to snip the 'earth' to each window?!

 

[steptoe]

I done that, earthing window frames, f'in mad it was, drilling a 6mm hole in a perfectly good window just so we could bond a 4mm earth to the nearest radiator!!!!!!!!!

looked very nice it did!