Electrician gone Awol

Rabidruffryder · Apr 21, 2019

Hi all, looking for some urgent advice please.

Purchased a property, old Victorian. 1 circuit running across all upstairs room sockets. Electrician came in killed the old circuit, wired up new and left unconnected as I was having the rooms plastered and decorated. I now need him back to connect to unit and attach socket facias (What I believe is called the 2nd fix) .

The problem is he has gone AWOL. His phone is dead to the world and I have no other means of contacting him. I have reached out to other electricians and none will touch it as they didn't do the 1st bit.

What are my options...family is moving in, in 6 days and I have no power to sockets upstairs.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Pete999 · Apr 21, 2019

ferg said:
If he's taken it on as a cash job and you knew that before hand then phoning his employer to deliberately land him in the doo doo would be very underhand and likely to scupper any chance at all of him coming back.

Yes I agree a bit underhand, especially as you are not sure of the reason for his phone being switched off.

andyb · Apr 21, 2019

I don't think you should call his employer, you do not know what's happend to him, he may be ill or had an accident or something. You could get him the sack, It's sad that some on this site are advocating that, I wouldn't mind betting that most here have done something similar in their time.
I agree with Charlie, if you still can't contact him after Easter just get another electrician in to finish the job.

Bob Geldoff1234 · Apr 21, 2019

He might have gone to America or similar. In order to avoid excessive charges I turn my phone off for the two weeks that I'm away. It also helps with stress reduction

Octopus · Apr 21, 2019

buzzlightyear said:
..... then make a call to his employer .... and ask to speak to him and if he's on holiday ...... leave a message

That WILL get his attention .
They will sit up and take note .
With a p45 on the table waiting for him.

AND ......... if its against his cont

Bob Geldoff1234 said:
He might have gone to America or similar. In order to avoid excessive charges I turn my phone off for the two weeks that I'm away. It also helps with stress reduction

Turning a phone off doesn't make it dead to the world. Message services do work unless you are on the Vodafone network and select an "outgoing" message only which prevents people leaving messages. I do this when on our Summer Holidays

Back to the OP - do you have his address?

Rabidruffryder · Apr 21, 2019

Thanks for all the replies. In case I was not clear. It is his mobile number I have, and that is no longer working .(I will NOT be contacting his employer, messing up someone's livelyhood is of no interest to me)

There are some sound recommendations here and I thank you all for taking the time to respond.

Pete999 · Apr 21, 2019

ferg said:
If he's taken it on as a cash job and you knew that before hand then phoning his employer to deliberately land him in the doo doo would be very underhand and likely to scupper any chance at all of him coming back.

Yes I agree a bit underhand, especially as you are not sure of the reason for his phone being switched off.

buzzlightyear · Apr 21, 2019

I do the same , i do not want to be rude to the op but was the cost for doing it cheap .and now it will cost him more now to get a registered spark in to cert the work , then have a back street aborshnaist.

Rpa07 · Apr 21, 2019

It hasn’t been answered how long he hasn’t been answering the phone for - since 5pm on Thursday night or 3 weeks?
If Thursday night - don’t panic Mr Mainwearing, if 3 weeks PANIC (and phone his employer and tell them that you are worried about him and you think he’s fallen down a well because Lassie told you!)

Rpa07 · Apr 21, 2019

[ElectriciansForums.net] Electrician gone Awol

Here is the last photo taken of the electrician just after finishing 1st fix.
His apprentice is a right dog!

Spoon · Apr 21, 2019

Even if the electrician did give his works phone number it wouldn't be dead. It would still ring. No company would disconnect their phones for a holiday.

Spoon · Apr 21, 2019

buzzlightyear said:
Makes me laugh when peaple asking what should i do my electrican has gone missing .FFS ring the FBI or interpol.

Not everyone know what is the best option to go forward from this. It's good to look at it from the customers point of view, if the electrician has actually done a runner.

Pete999 · Apr 21, 2019

Spoon said:
Even if the electrician did give his works phone number it wouldn't be dead. It would still ring. No company would disconnect their phones for a holiday.

May have transferred calls to a messaging center and the OP got fed up with waiting???

buzzlightyear · Apr 21, 2019

I will give this to some peaple that reading this post.
1 if you ring a spark up and you agree with a price and the spark has done a runner , think have paid him well , then he will return.

2 if you have not paid him then you have whats coming .
3 if a spark has retumed to the job treat him has a god .

Pete999 · Apr 21, 2019

buzzlightyear said:
I will give this to some peaple that reading this post.
1 if you ring a spark up and you agree with a price and the spark has done a runner , think have paid him well , then he will return.

2 if you have not paid him then you have whats coming .
3 if a spark has retumed to the job treat him has a god .

Peaple????

Spoon · Apr 21, 2019

buzzlightyear said:
3 if a spark has retumed to the job treat him has a god .

Which god??? There are lots..

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