Electrical OCD

[OwainDIYer]

I like all the earth sleeving to have the yellow at the front with green stripes at each side (vertical) or top and bottom (horizontal).

Wouldn't it make more sense to want the green showing to the front? That way the plain yellow wires are easier to dinstinguish from the earths.

I don't think I've got any yellow wires. I do have grey wires sleeved yellow though.

 

[SimonH2]

OCD about things ... where do I start ...
Curly cords with kinks ... or that are tightened up. There are "lefties" and "righties" when it comes to twisting phone cords, and depending on which way the cord is wound, some people will wind them up ever tighter and some will unwind them until they start reverse winding. The number of times I've been past certain people's desks and instinctively picked up the handset and let it dangle to unwind

And then people laugh at me for something that's not been mentioned - getting the bubbles out when fitting accessories. I can't stand a socket or switch that isn't level

And one more that's not been mentioned. Improperly coiled cables. Even to the point where some people in the office figured out that the easiest way to coil a cable was to start coiling it badly, at which point I'd grab it off them and show them how to do it properly.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Maybe you should mount 2-ways sideways? Then you could argue whether they both need to be left/right for off!

Maybe you should import the UK (European?) convention of up-off/down-on for light switches into the USA....

 

[ban-all-sheds]

This was probably 9-10 years ago where electronic switches were not so common.

I didn't mean that sort - I meant traditional push-on/push-off switches.

 

[Mikefromlondon]

I have binned it many times and she soon scoops it out washes it and puts it back on.

Surely you must have a pair of cutters which would chop it into small pieces?

I tell you what, I am going to fill it with some filler! ha ha let us see what her reaction will be!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

It's possible that a bit of heat will cause it to shrink.

 

[SimonH2]

But that will make it 'kin hard to remove after she's re-fitted it. A little bit of shrinkage isn't going to stop her by the sound of things.

As another one, does anyone else have an almost irresistable urge for symmetry ? Last week I was doing a small networking job - small enough that it doesn't justify a cab on the wall etc, so a stack of wall plates. 28 sockets with 4 to a plate - with a bit of 2x2 trunking down the middle of the stack. I decided to do it as two rows, with 4 on the top row and 3 on the second row - but as a colleague pointed out, it was darn tempting to fit another backbox and blanking plate to "fill in the hole"

 

[bernardgreen]

put a dab of glue inside the cover, then not be around when she tries to take it off to use the appliance.

My closest to OCD is my reaction to imitation wood, I have to find where the pattern of imitation knot holes startes to repeat. Same with patterned glass.

And wall tiles that all had the same motif, I would be looking for the one that had been fixed upside down

 

[SimonH2]

Ah yes, tiles. Like that pattern that was popular in the 70s/80s which one way up looks very much like a bird/chick. Look awful if the tiler just slapped them on in random orientation, OK when all the same way, and WTF if just one or two are different !

 

[bernardgreen]

looks very much like a bird/chick.

That is the very one. I couldn't find a picture, but at least I am not going mad in thinking it was a bird, almost every motorway service area had them

 

[SimonH2]

We had them at my parents back in the 70s/80s, and we've still got them in our kitchen which is "a bit overdue" for a makeover.

 

[flameport]

 

[Taylortwocities]

Isn't it a leaping deer on the bottom two tiles?

 

[RF Lighting]

I did a job a few years back and noticed this interesting bit of tiling

 

[bernardgreen]

Thank you Flame Port......... That image has ruined my day........