just been to help my neighbour and thought I'd share with the forum, she's painting walls outside of her wet room / bathroom and got a belt off the paint brush, puts brush down and without thinking touches wall - another zap! so she phones the council helpline explains situation to call centre monkey - gets passed to duty head of maintenance explains again and is advised " get someone else to touch wall in case your imagining it or stick a piece of gaffer tape ( wet painted wall ffs ) if your worried, will try to get someone out next week sometime as a 50 mile round trip and not really a priority"
bear in mind single mother 4 young kids just out of abusive relationship and wall by wet room, kitchen and only entrance / exit to property.
went round to look and found a nail through unearthed metal conduit containing switch line drop that had several layers of paint over protecting it till she sanded the wall and applied paint.
I spoke to council to explain situation and was told they might get a spark out tonight or might wait for a job order next week, 10 mins later they phone me back to ask if I thought she'd put the nail in to hang a picture ( between 2 architraves 3.5 inches apart so would be very small picture ) obviously hoping to offload blame and make it chargeable, I said definitely an old nail and explained that I considered the advice given earlier to be very ill thought out and potentially lethal guys attitude seemed to be - oh well it's only a council tenant / single mother ( lowlife scum ) when I asked if they'd authorise me to repair as I'm a fully qualified spark answer was no but suddenly he decided he could get a spark out immediately so will see what happens - makes me so angry some salaried bell end can be so cavalier with other peoples lives b@574*%5
bear in mind single mother 4 young kids just out of abusive relationship and wall by wet room, kitchen and only entrance / exit to property.
went round to look and found a nail through unearthed metal conduit containing switch line drop that had several layers of paint over protecting it till she sanded the wall and applied paint.
I spoke to council to explain situation and was told they might get a spark out tonight or might wait for a job order next week, 10 mins later they phone me back to ask if I thought she'd put the nail in to hang a picture ( between 2 architraves 3.5 inches apart so would be very small picture ) obviously hoping to offload blame and make it chargeable, I said definitely an old nail and explained that I considered the advice given earlier to be very ill thought out and potentially lethal guys attitude seemed to be - oh well it's only a council tenant / single mother ( lowlife scum ) when I asked if they'd authorise me to repair as I'm a fully qualified spark answer was no but suddenly he decided he could get a spark out immediately so will see what happens - makes me so angry some salaried bell end can be so cavalier with other peoples lives b@574*%5
