EXPOSED: Electricians' Dumping New Lights in Skips
EXPOSED: Electricians' Dumping New Lights in Skips
Up to 100,000 office lights are installed every week by electrical contractors, only to be put in skip a few months later. We explore the scandal of Cat A fit-outs…
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DEXTRA Lighting's whole business plan were doing this from at least 15 years ago; including making the legal minimum lights, the customer's preferred lights and reclaiming/recycling all those lights!
API interface?
Car charger that uses cheap overnight solar power
Whatever next?
Unicorn & flak-jacket 🤔
And wireless meters, claim 20m range, real world 2m range if lucky. I've a Testo one, and the range is just pathetic, as is response time
We just flytip our waste
The scandal is lights where repair parts cannot be bought at any half sensible price, rendering them scrap. Which is just bloody ridiculous. But hey, they pretend to be green and idiots fall for it
unicorn, flak
I was working in an office near Piccadilly today, with massive windows overlooking a sizeable service yard. I watched as multiple large-sized pickup trucks came along and removed first metal studs (about 3 trucks worth) then a good one or two trucks FILLED with large ceiling light fittings. It seemed strange, usually you might see a range of demolished materials, but this stuck in my mind as it was really neatly lined-up studwork, then neatly lined-up light fittings. They looked nearly new to my eyes. Maybe it was not the same thing, but yeh – amazing. No way these things were going to be used elsewhere, even though they were neatly lined-up, they were chucked on from a great height as if they were going to the scrap yard. I had no idea that was a thing.
A company I used to work for would do fit outs for local authority offices, they used to spec Thorlux modular fittings across the board. Every time they would alter the layout of an office and a light fitting was not required they would go back to our stores and not scrapped, within months any that were undamaged they would be used in another council building in the county and charged for, there were a lot of light fittings that had been paid for 2 or 3 times 😂
Black pudding is not an "important" part of a full English breakfast is indeed correct. It is an Essential part.
Why are those mushroom headed screws in overhead metal tray almost always fitted with the heads pointing downwards and the threads up with the cables? Why?
End cat A campaign, 😂 nevwr happen. too many vested interests.
Keeps me in a job enall
I was working on a new build supermarket in a new build shopping centre (mostly funded by the supermarket). They left the new light fittings in place, but had two fully qualified electricians going round (one on a little MEWP, one pushing it and handing him materials), all day for a WHOLE WEEK changing all the brand new fluro tubes over to a whiter shade of white. 😆 Meanwhile, I was working with my sunglasses on due to the white walls, white ceiling, white shelves, and lightest colour floor they could get giving me headache.
What about the replacement of new LED lights after 3 months since installation because they are poorly made? Why are they not doing something to tackle that? Costing contractors money to replace these on warranty?
At one time we used to do some shop fitting . We used to put the old lights in the window and put a free label on them . Almost always they were taken . Often by people who just wanted a fluorescent light for their garage
Flak and unicorn 🤔
Words are:
Unicorn & Flak-Jacket.
Unicorn and flack!
Unicorn and flack jacket
Unicorn and moulded
Unicorn and flack jac
I tought someone caught our ex labourer that mistook new lights with old/empty boxes and threw them brand new unopen into the skip to be crushed by the telehandler
Joe… with a beard?🧔♂️!!
Wastage in the industry – sounds like something the public sector would do 🙄
Unicorn and flax-jacket
I've got 13 Ansell bollard lights because of this very reason. Fitted as show pieces for prospective buyers and ripped out once sold. My mate is the project manager and he's always telling me there's lights in a skip 😁
Unicorn and flak-jacket
Unicorn and ketchup
Unicorn 🦄 and flak jacket
Not a fan of the beard. 🙁
Never really paid attention for the 2 words but here I go.
Definitely UNICORN, I was looking away at the time and I raised my eyebrow thinking that's a funny description.
Secondly FLAK JACKET, seemed placed because I started activating listening for the odd word after that 😁
Worked on a school ripping out older LED fittings to get them to the new grade. Crazy
Fitted out an entire building in london on completion the entire build was striped back and started again-
Tax write off for a major banking group. brand new fan coil units and all lights and floor box sockets skipped.
About 6 floors of office space close to the bank of england-
Seen it many times, Government jobs being the absolute worst waste of tax payers money.
Unicorn and flak-jacket
Why not store the CAT A fittings above the ceiling for the next tenancy
Unicorn & flak-jacket 👀
just look up akon lighting africa to see how little is known about folks who do so much while the trendy charity types spend all their money on tv shows and telephone marketing
I do wonder if there should be a "50 under 50" kinda thing too…or will that be too many people 🙂
What about taking the removed cat A luminaires to local trade colleges to use or train/learn with?
WHAT! No black pudding… Next you'll be saying no pineapple on pizzas. 😂
Clearly you haven’t tried sausage gravy & biscuit