Monthly Archives: October 2015

The danger of reviews

B&Q (at DIY.com) invite reviews on the products they sell and having discovered this product

XQ-Lite 20W Mains Powered PIR Floodlight

was utter crap I tried to post a review to let people know my views which are based on a lot of years’ experience.
The following review was rejected by B&Q because [quote]:
We have read your review and value your contribution even though it did not meet all our website guidelines. Thanks for sharing, and we hope to publish next time!

My review reads:

Having been a full time handyman for over fifteen years I have rarely seen a worse piece of design. Hex screws are used all over and unnecessarily, just to make everything more fiddly it would seem. Wiring access is extremely poor with some great lump of workings taking up most of the space in the rear compartment. The sensor does not twist sideways, only up and down. If you tried to wire this in-situ doubtless perched at the top of a ladder forget it. I wired it prior to fixing it in place and actually was not surprised when it didn’t work. So now I’ll have to grapple the back open to double check my wiring (in which I have confidence) or I just assume this is in an out of the box failed unit …which is the likelier. Unfortunately, I don’t think I can rate it with zero stars so when I give it just one star please assume this is an overrating.
ENDS

Consequently I can only conclude in this instance that while the product is shit, it is not as shit as B&Q themselves for this attitude.