Strangest thing you have found in a property?

[Pete999]

I'll have what ever he's taken as long as it aint winnalot

 

[elsparko]

I'll have what ever he's taken as long as it aint winnalot

 

[Squid]

never getting married, seen too many men lose almost 90% of their property to a woman who thinks because she cleans dishes after supper that she is entitled to half the home, and everything in it

my initial thought was that the cows had heard i love steak and chips with a bit of peppercorn sauce and were about to make steaks out of me

Scottish, I thought so.......





;o))))))

 

[elsparko]

Scottish, I thought so.......





;o))))))

 

[Wilko]

Recently did a new circuit for immersion heater at a house where owner runs a new age wellness therapy business. Don't get me started ... Anyway, open the cupboard with CU to find it stuffed full of quartz crystal rocks. "Makes electricity less harmful" says owner. Probably stops DIY so true up to a point .

 

[elsparko]

Recently did a new circuit for immersion heater at a house where owner runs a new age wellness therapy business. Don't get me started ... Anyway, open the cupboard with CU to find it stuffed full of quartz crystal rocks. "Makes electricity less harmful" says owner. Probably stops DIY so true up to a point .

ive got some lucky heather if he/she is interested.

 

[freddo]

Was working in a house a few weeks ago that had a working salus wireless room stat, didn't expect to see that at all.

Another house had a coffin as a coffee table.

Went to look at a faulty TV, pulled the TV cabinet forward to find a whole load of dog turds behind the TV, the rest of the house was spotless.

Found a loft conversion the bungalow owners didn't know they had.

Fully working toilet outside in an open porch, there was a great view over the hills from the seat.

 

[elsparko]

Was working in a house a few weeks ago that had a working salus wireless room stat, didn't expect to see that at all.

Another house had a coffin as a coffee table.

Went to look at a faulty TV, pulled the TV cabinet forward to find a whole load of dog turds behind the TV, the rest of the house was spotless.

Found a loft conversion the bungalow owners didn't know they had.

Fully working toilet outside in an open porch, there was a great view over the hills from the seat.

so some folks do poop on their own doorstep..

 

[freddo]

lol,
And that reminded me of the house of a mentally unstable man we did work in, though replace doorstep with living room carpet.

 

[elsparko]

lol,
And that reminded me of the house of a mentally unstable man we did work in, though replace doorstep with living room carpet.

shirley such a man would have a carer to stop him making those choices?

 

[freddo]

There were 24 hour carers but even they had to leave the room from time to time. The job was a nightmare, we had to cut the power for a few minutes for something, that got him angry as the TV didn't work, so he threw a shoe at it and broke the LCD screen.

 

[MJPD29]

I cleared a lot of insulation in an attic once to find a severed hand than nearly scared the clean sh** out of me. On closer inspection and after nearly having a heart attack I found it to be a very realistic plastic Halloween toy. I'e never felt so relieved

 

[elsparko]

how it feels sometimes when doing an eicr.

 

[elsparko]

just got finished on a PAT job, there was a range of butt plugs sitting beside a lamp LOL

 

[Pete999]

just got finished on a PAT job, there was a range of butt plugs sitting beside a lamp LOL

What 13Amp ones?

 

[elsparko]

What 13Amp ones?

should of asked the tenant if she would of liked them tested , she answered the door in just a towel too, dirty dirty woman

 

[Dave OCD]

And......??

 

[Pete999]

should of asked the tenant if she would of liked them tested , she answered the door in just a towel too, dirty dirty woman

Yeah give elsparko

 

[elsparko]

Yeah give elsparko

i looked at the floor like a good boy

 

[Pete999]

i looked at the floor like a good boy

Bullsheyte

 

[Dave OCD]

Actually Pete that kind of happening can throw you, and it can make you want to escape quick too.

 

[Pete999]

Actually Pete that kind of happening can throw you, and it can make you want to escape quick too.

I'm sure it does Mate, think I would have done runner

 

[elsparko]

Actually Pete that kind of happening can throw you, and it can make you want to escape quick too.

i had a quick glance, didnt notice the offending items till i was testing the last item in the bedroom lol.

women that are easy lays are usually psychos

 

[Squid]

women that are easy lays are usually psychos

Did you get "pegged" as a bonus? ;o))))

 

[Dave Jenkins]

..That's never happened to me...was part way through doing a job once when the customer - a bloke - wandered around the property in his underpants and nothing else! Added that to the job risk assessment I can tell you!
Twas gross - finished as quick as I could and left. Speaking to the guys' brother-in-law some time later he said he had a reputation for doing just that...and he'd told him not to do it!
Nowt so queer as folk - as they say!

 

[Doomed]

Got called to a old couples place I have done bits and pieces for, called for over sink light not working.
The old dear lets me in, and the old boy shouts down 'is that George? send him up, I've just finished in the shower'
I start going up stairs, look up, and there is the 70ish year old man starkers at the top of the stairs waiting to show me the over sink light.

 

[Pete999]

Got called to a old couples place I have done bits and pieces for, called for over sink light not working.
The old dear lets me in, and the old boy shouts down 'is that George? send him up, I've just finished in the shower'
I start going up stairs, look up, and there is the 70ish year old man starkers at the top of the stairs waiting to show me the over sink light.

Age is just a number mate, 71 and the body of an Adonis, well it used to be

 

[elsparko]

Age is just a number mate, 71 and the body of an Adonis, well it used to be

my body is a temple of worship, unfortunately it appears to be buddhist worship for the moment

 

[KEV 1 N]

This story is not so much strange as in weird, but a pleasant strange.....had to do an EICR for an old lady who was selling her house. She asked if I'd like a cup of tea, so I said yes please and went to work. The tea was taking a while but eventually she shouts upstairs that it's ready, so I go down and she has set the table, made sandwiches, put out cakes and biscuits and a large pot of tea!

 

[kingeri]

This story is not so much strange as in weird, but a pleasant strange.....had to do an EICR for an old lady who was selling her house. She asked if I'd like a cup of tea, so I said yes please and went to work. The tea was taking a while but eventually she shouts upstairs that it's ready, so I go down and she has set the table, made sandwiches, put out cakes and biscuits and a large pot of tea!

Aww bless her!

 

[Darkwood]

Found loads of crap over the years but the most shocking was live bullets on top of a door frame in Chapeltown Leeds, not too shocked at the bullets but the Bf of the girl living there was doing time for possession of a firearm to which she says he was set-up ... she wasn't too happy when I handed them to her lol .... turns out the police are not a set of racist thugs after all, as she claimed.

 

[kingeri]

That reminds me of when I was a boy, helping my old man digging a trench for a new culvert, we found a rusty old shotgun in what was left of a bin liner. My dad took it to the cop shop.

 

[freddo]

I fitted a shower in a gay guys house a few years back, he asked for a full demonstration. Unfortunately I had to get to the next job so didn't have time to provide that service.

she has set the table, made sandwiches, put out cakes and biscuits and a large pot of tea!

Hardly get that at all now, though did some work earlier this year for a 98 year old lady who provided tea, toast with home made jam and biscuits.

We had quite a few elderly customers like that when I used to work in an appliance shop, one customer, we had to wait for her to call before we could arrive to deliver/repair to ensure she had finished making the cake she always gave us. On a rewire about 8 years ago we were fed proper breakfast and lunch every day by a lovely old couple.

Sadly these 4 people have all died.

 

[elsparko]

Got called to a old couples place I have done bits and pieces for, called for over sink light not working.
The old dear lets me in, and the old boy shouts down 'is that George? send him up, I've just finished in the shower'
I start going up stairs, look up, and there is the 70ish year old man starkers at the top of the stairs waiting to show me the over sink light.

if he was a soldier at any point in his life he may be overly comfortable being entirely naked in the presence of another male.

 

[Rpa07]

This story is not so much strange as in weird, but a pleasant strange.....had to do an EICR for an old lady who was selling her house. She asked if I'd like a cup of tea, so I said yes please and went to work. The tea was taking a while but eventually she shouts upstairs that it's ready, so I go down and she has set the table, made sandwiches, put out cakes and biscuits and a large pot of tea!

Two day job finished today, yesterday I was treated to scrambled egg on toast and today a chilli burger - it’s hard to sit down and take time away from the work but would be rude not to!
The cups of tea helped, especially the ones made prior to the leccy going off!
Tricks of the trade!

 

[Sparkingmad]

German u boat complete toilet in a house.

 

[lurch]

Carrying out an eicr. Told owners I'll need access to all rooms to test all sockets. Entered the 18 year old daughters bedroom to be confronted with a box is tricks !!!! No attempt to conceal them . And when I say box of tricks I mean just about every toy available .....

 

[elsparko]

Carrying out an eicr. Told owners I'll need access to all rooms to test all sockets. Entered the 18 year old daughters bedroom to be confronted with a box is tricks !!!! No attempt to conceal them . And when I say box of tricks I mean just about every toy available .....

toy trains and air fix kits?

 

[DPG]

Ker plunk I bet.

 

[Dave OCD]

I've worked in a house with a full size Dalek stood in the corner of the living room, the people won it in a Dr Who competition apparently. I had half an eye on it in case it started to move and shout 'EXTERMINATE'

 

[WillWX]

Not me personally but a friend rang me last Friday to say he found £5000 in old £50 notes underfloor boards, still in the banks paper bands. Pretty nice find.