Tell us about your faults!

[Kate]

I snore loudly

What?!?! That made me chuckle with how random it was!!

 

[Silly Sausage]

I post on internet forums.

 

[dan86]

is that you're 'fault' Archy?!

 

[sajeel]

Mouse in db unit

 

[Chris sparky]

Nice!
I've found one of the critters in an old db before

I guess he forgot to..."miceolate" the supply before entering.


I'm sorry. Coat please

 

[Matth]

just a call out charge for that then?!

LOL, I had some other things to do, so I didnt charge them..............thats how nice I am !!

 

[Rampantchilli]

Ok so I went to an emergency call as the tenant had stated she was getting a shock from the shower. My employer doesn't really give much time for this kind of work, and doesn't pay OT, so arrived at 3.30. Carried out the normal tests on the shower circuit and found nothing wrong. Apparently this lady had had 3 shocks, the last one she said to herself I'd better be quick and carried on, lol
so I isolated the shower, and returned the next day.
all IR readings were good, well over 100M, except for upstairs lighting, which was incorrectly labelled as smoke detectors, the IR reading was .86m at 230v. Lighting was not Rcd protected, but shower, sockets and cooker were.
all circuits in the bathroom were bonded as per 16th
carried out a full EICR, and found the only one fault, the bathroom 16w 2d fitting was connected wrong, across L-E, I'm guessing that the shock was caused by the light fitting, passing current down the earth to the pipe work then on through the water and once the drains were wet, the lady got a small shock.
I reconnected the light, obviously, and did additional supp bonding in bathroom and to shower circuit,. The tenant hasn't had another shock since.

 

[Anthony King]

This was quite a good one today, rcd tripping, damp in the walls had just destroyed the back box and the cables in the wall, thats all that was left of it

 

[ash_s3]

Just nick an extra switched line out of the 3 core for some wall lights!

 

[KAS1]

Is that the cpc with red sleeving also I'd of thought they would of used a wago lol

 

[ash_s3]

Yea, used the cpc as a switched line just on the switch drop! Used red sleeving at both ends, cpc wasn't exposed like it shows in the pic I ripped it open a bit, as at first it looked like 4 core cable!

 

[rich.250]

Found this lovely 16mm t+e under customers crap in a loft. Live, off as 80 amp bs 88. What you can't see in the pic is the tape doesn't even cover the end of the copper!!

 

[sajeel]

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Found this lovely 16mm t+e under customers crap in a loft. Live, off as 80 amp bs 88. What you can't see in the pic is the tape doesn't even cover the end of the copper!!

Oh dear

 

[pennywise]

Found in a nursery

 

[Franklopes]

I got called to a house to rectify a cooker circuit that had tripped and stopped working. Traced the fault all the way back to inside to cooker only to find an electrocuted mouse between live and earth.........nice!

 

[HandySparks]

Found in nursery

So are all the final circuits wired with blue for line and brown for neutral? Which way round were the accessories connected?

 

[pennywise]

Everything is wired back to front at every point lighting and power, so nothing has been tripping, also if you look closely at the lighting they're on a 32amp breaker lol

 

[sajeel]

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Found in nursery

Colorblind lol

 

[telectrix]

told 'em we should have stuck to red and black.

 

[telectrix]

only a lunatic would pick the natural colour of earth for live conductors.