What have you been blamed for ??

[Dazza1976]

Hi all,

Just had a little laugh to myself, when thinking about a job I did with a friend a few years back, where the customer blamed us for her sink and waste pipes all getting blocked up, she was adament that we had caused it to happen by bonding the pipework under the sink !!!!
Out of goodwill we cleared the blockage for her, although it obviously wasn't our fault.

Thought it may make an interesting thread, hearing what you lot have been blamed for in the past, after work you have carried out ?

Im sure it must happen quite often where you get the old ' Well everything was fine until you did the work in my house !'

 

[telectrix]

had one where after cutting out for 12 downlights, all exactly spaced in a single room, the customer decided to split the room unequally into 2 rooms. this threw all the light positions out, and he said i'd cut them in the wrong places. what a plonker.

 

[Deleted member 9648]

Once got the blame for a power cut at a school.....wouldnt of minded but I'd only just pulled up in the van....the usual,"Well it was OK before you got here!"

 

[alanl]

Rewired a kitchen. The next day I got told the toaster is not working properly. There were 3 elements on this toaster, 2 outer and one inner, the inner wasnt working. Of course, it was my fault as it was fine until I had touched the electrics.
The same house I found a radial circuit with 3 socket outlets with no earth continuity.
I told them they couldnt use that circuit until I had found the fault. Again, it was my fault, as it was fine until I had touched it!

 

[RogertheBodger]

Turned off a circuit breaker, changed a damaged socket, switched on again and at that precise split second all the power in the premises went off.

So right away you think 'what have I done' tested everything, customers ranting and raving 'cos I couldn't fix it, fridge is defrosting, no telly, can't get the car out of the garage, houses on both sides have power blah de blah, Turns out there is no power coming into the cu. main fuse gone? - phoned them out, main fuse ok, phase down? went off off check - yep.

5 hours spent on what should have been a 5 minute socket replacement listening to never ending versions of 'it must have been something you did'.

 

[Electricalserv]

Turned off a circuit breaker, changed a damaged socket, switched on again and at that precise split second all the power in the premises went off.

So right away you think 'what have I done' tested everything, customers ranting and raving 'cos I couldn't fix it, fridge is defrosting, no telly, can't get the car out of the garage, houses on both sides have power blah de blah, Turns out there is no power coming into the cu. main fuse gone? - phoned them out, main fuse ok, phase down? went off off check - yep.

5 hours spent on what should have been a 5 minute socket replacement listening to never ending versions of 'it must have been something you did'.

Nightmare mate

 

[diditrain]

Worked on a social housing contract once. This scumbag new how to play the system. She claimed for anything and everything. They believed everything she said for some reason. e.g. she said that she had brass s/s/o throughout and that we must have thrown some of them away

 

[bugsy]

I had one a few years back the hubby accused my of s*gg**g his misses ( she was fit and she was very flirty and making lurid suggestions while walking round the house half naked but no I did'nt nor would I ( had'nt been paid ) but he was adament to the point he installed cctv,
Turned out to be the next door neighbour! and all was forgiven

 

[Phil]

we rewired a house and they refused to pay the balance because on of the light switches confused them?? their old one was on in the normal off position etc, so i spun it round and told them to pay up. got the cash and they asked if i could turn it back again as they had got used to it
oh then theres the old the dog should not be let out when your walking through the door with all your tools
there are some more real stupid ones that i will pop up later

 

[Guest123]

The Mrs usually blames me for everything.........and it usually is my fault!!!!!

 

[ian.settle1]

had one where after cutting out for 12 downlights, all exactly spaced in a single room, the customer decided to split the room unequally into 2 rooms. this threw all the light positions out, and he said i'd cut them in the wrong places. what a plonker.

Yes you where for putting them in the wrong place and knowing he was going to divide it into 2 rooms.

 

[Newsome3]

we did a rewire on monday in a ciuncil property with a tennent from hell
after we finished we got it in the neck for everything
the next day we got called into the office a there was a little mark on sofa (notfrom us) but the best thing was we were getting blamed for cutting up te blokes step ladders for the wood they were made from
my responce was look pal times are hard but not that hard!!!

 

[Gravid]

Me and a mate got blamed for wearing the stairs carpet out on a job once, this was 1st day on the job about half nine in the morning, been up n down the stairs prob twice each carrying tools up. They we're already thread bare and this nutter was stood there going "look there knackered now, i'm claiming for this". Good old council house rewires.

 

[Mr Mike]

Here is one, not electrical though.
Whilst working in Majorca on the Chairmans Villa, we were given permisson to use the red, ford four by four (jeep or whatever), to get matls and go for evening meals at the restaurant. I had driven the vehicle one night, did not use it during the following day. When evening came I went to ask his wife for the car keys and......
I was told I had bumped into something, somewhere along the line. Not I Mrs Chairman...... Well it was not me, was her response, the Chairman will not be too happy.
So we looked at the car and sure enough a black mark along the front wing. We got some T Cut and polished it out. She had bumped it and chose to accuse us.
(female dog)!!!!!!!!

 

[mike2790]

was doing a full fire system in a home and some dithering old dear accused me and another sparky of nicking her minging smelly electric blanket.....because we reaaaallly needed one of those.

 

[domestic spark]

My scummy fridge that's older than you worked fine until you fitted that fuseboard! Never had that problem on my old asbestos fused wooden one

 

[SirKit Breaker]

I have made some horrible smells in houses, and today i did one in an office toilet and it infected the whole office and entrance hall

Cheers........Howard

 

[bugsy]

The Mrs usually blames me for everything.........and it usually is my fault!!!!!

Yep it's that week here too

 

[RogertheBodger]

I have made some horrible smells in houses, and today i did one in an office toilet and it infected the whole office and entrance hall

Cheers........Howard

Always connect the fan up first Howard

 

[Knobhead]

This ones industrial, it’s also a bit of a long story.

We had a 2000HP fan fitted with a slip ring motor and liquid starter. Saturday afternoon we would test run the fan to check it for vibration. So I started the fan and just as it got near full speed the 11KV tripped ? ? ? Checked the liquid starter and the electrolyte was as weak a p**s, now I am confused. Water can evaporate but not the caustic soda that’s dissolved in it. Called the boss and he makes the decision to change the electrolyte, great idea we’d got enough distilled water but needed 147lb of soda. We all split up to raid all the supermarkets in the area I went to Asda and cleared the shelf, apparently the manager had phoned another store to be told we’ve just had a guy in that’s wiped us out as well. The boss arrives at Sainsburys and clears the shelf, while waiting at the check out he’s invited in to the office by the police. They think they’ve found a bomb making ring.

Back to the starter, I decided increase the electrolyte strength a bit to improve the starting curve, this is where my problems started. First start, perfect. The following weekend the duty engineer complained he’d had to change a lot of brushes. Came Saturdays test run and the brush gear exploded, bits were found over 100M away. Now I’m getting it in the neck. Over the next 3 months it blew up another 6 times, me getting the earache every time. In the mean time I introduced new cleaning methods and test regime for the brush gear which stopped the explosions. But we still hadn’t got to the bottom of it. It was a chance conversation with an engineer from another company that solved it. He told me the company that made the brushes had moved factories and had had trouble with the composition of brushes afterwards. We had a new batch made, changed all the brushes, threw away all old stores stock. No problems after that except I was still getting blamed for it.