2 Year old recieving electric shocks from WALL

[ajelec10]

Here's one for the books!!
Got a call from a customer saying were are receiving mild electric shocks from a wall?? So i thinks thats an interesting one i'll go my self and have a look.
Turns up, she shows me to the kitchen were there is an arch way between the kitchen and dining room, shes says its the corners my 2 year you walks past tocuchs the corner and crys, took them two mounths to work out why???
So i get my volt pen out and the whole wall show a voltage present, switch to voltage indicators after doing a quick loop test from a local socket, from the socket screw to the plaster beed is 240V!! no wonder the poor kids been crying.
Flick off a few breakers and find it to be the downstairs lights that's causing the fault, i assume its a nail through the switch wire in the dining room so got to the ceiling rose to disconnect it a find only one cable meaning a junction upstairs.
Procced to upstairs to find laminate floor, luckly its not been fitted very well and not glued together so manage to pull a bit up, pull back the underlay and expose a floor board, start unscrewing it and, ****sssss water hits the ceiling, whip the board out and my mate stick both his thumbs over the two screw hole in both the flow and return, i act quickly get the water turned off and the CH drained down quicker than a plumber on steroids, luckily had the plumbing bits on the van so soldered a couple of new bits of pipe in, What a night mere.
Any way found the fault, was a nail through the switch wire into the meshing of the archway, apparently the mcb was tripping out but they keeped resetting it until it stayed on, it just blew the earth away!! and left all the plaster beed completely live at 240v potential.

What a day

AJ

 

[castlon11]

I had a simular event where a pipe had burst in the wall and a nail through the phase of cable going to socket (whole kitchen wall live), as i stuck my probes into the wall a found a voltage from 70 - 230 directing me to damaged cable.
The consumer unit was held (3036) fusewire but the strangest thing was there was 230v in the wall next to other sockets and metal back-boxes so why did'nt this blow fuse? Also boiler on seperate circuit to sockets on 200v wall?
C.p.c present at socket voltage should have taken path from wall, through back-box and screws to earth but never did, its one that is still troubling me to this day.

 

[Mac]

Here's one for the books!!
Got a call from a customer saying were are receiving mild electric shocks from a wall?? So i thinks thats an interesting one i'll go my self and have a look.
Turns up, she shows me to the kitchen were there is an arch way between the kitchen and dining room, shes says its the corners my 2 year you walks past tocuchs the corner and crys, took them two mounths to work out why???
So i get my volt pen out and the whole wall show a voltage present, switch to voltage indicators after doing a quick loop test from a local socket, from the socket screw to the plaster beed is 240V!! no wonder the poor kids been crying.
Flick off a few breakers and find it to be the downstairs lights that's causing the fault, i assume its a nail through the switch wire in the dining room so got to the ceiling rose to disconnect it a find only one cable meaning a junction upstairs.
Procced to upstairs to find laminate floor, luckly its not been fitted very well and not glued together so manage to pull a bit up, pull back the underlay and expose a floor board, start unscrewing it and, ****sssss water hits the ceiling, whip the board out and my mate stick both his thumbs over the two screw hole in both the flow and return, i act quickly get the water turned off and the CH drained down quicker than a plumber on steroids, luckily had the plumbing bits on the van so soldered a couple of new bits of pipe in, What a night mere.
Any way found the fault, was a nail through the switch wire into the meshing of the archway, apparently the mcb was tripping out but they keeped resetting it until it stayed on, it just blew the earth away!! and left all the plaster beed completely live at 240v potential.

What a day

AJ

What a starGood on ya mate.Hope they paid you well

 

[beanzntoast]

Ha ha you get all the good jobs don't you.Don't make the mistake & think that all jobs will be that easy in the future.Well sorted mate

 

[Darkwood]

For future events you can pick up a instant repair tape that now is approved as a permanent job, it just wrap around the pipe even when its leaking under pressure and can cope with all domestic water/heating pipes oh! and it also repairs damaged electrical cables as its now been approved for this too, got mine from edmunsons and already repaired a leaking pipe at home

 

[Mac]

For future events you can pick up a instant repair tape that now is approved as a permanent job, it just wrap around the pipe even when its leaking under pressure and can cope with all domestic water/heating pipes oh! and it also repairs damaged electrical cables as its now been approved for this too, got mine from edmunsons and already repaired a leaking pipe at home

What is it called,sounds good.

 

[Darkwood]

I mislayed it il try find out though its worth carrying a pack around.

 

[castlon11]

Did you know if you have a radiator leak in your car you can crack an egg and insert contents into radiator and run it though untill egg has blocked hole. Caution: Do not use if large hole occurs
I told my friend if your radiator has a leak put an egg in it and he put a whole egg in anyways its fixed now... but still has an egg inside.

 

[ajelec10]

ALFA TAPE, thanks darkwood but i would still prefer to do the proper job!!!

 

[Darkwood]

ALFA TAPE, thanks darkwood but i would still prefer to do the proper job!!!

Alfa tape thats the one! and i was weary at first but its a given that its classed as a permanent solution passing all required testing and think of the cost and time it saves just running to the van and wrapping this around the punctured pipe, but do appreciate your preference but technology has provided an alternative.

Keep a packet to make a quick temp' job if you prefer to make good the standard way its just a must have now for the water damage it can save whether temp or permanent.

 

[piz]

City also do one called rescue tape

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Did you know if you have a radiator leak in your car you can crack an egg and insert contents into radiator and run it though untill egg has blocked hole. Caution: Do not use if large hole occurs
I told my friend if your radiator has a leak put an egg in it and he put a whole egg in anyways its fixed now... but still has an egg inside.

Should just be the white of the egg.
Only done this the once, when I was a Tow Truck driver and had a call to a woman near to regents park with overheating.
Late evening, but she was on her way to work.
Searched around and whilst leaning over the engine compartment, felt something hot and wet on my leg.
A tiny jet of water spraying out of the radiator.
Nothing I could do but tow her home, but she needed to get to work.
As she was parked outside a Chinese Resturant I suggested she go inside and ask if they had an egg.
Cracked the egg, poured in just the white, and it stopped the leak.
Don't know for how long.

 

[Andy78]

Well done ajelec for sorting a horrific situation. Hearing of kids getting shocks makes my spine shiver.
Really need to get me some of this wonder repair tape just in case too. Is it anything like the self amalgamation tape you can use for swa sheathing repairs ?

 

[Darkwood]

City also do one called rescue tape

Yes i know but at the time this thread was started it was the only thing on the market .... if you wait over 3years to respond to a thread im not supprised my post is outdated about alternative tapes.... lol

 

[Andy78]

Ah dammit sorry, didn't see the date. Flippin zombie threads.