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

 

[Darkwood]

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 ?

Its similar in nature to how it works but very different in its look and feel ... you stretch it to half width its usually pressure tested, it can be applied wet even on spraying pipes and high temp' friendly so can be shoved on a hot water pipe u just nicked into while its squirting everywhere... ive used it once in an emergency and the owner was dubious so he called a plumber who said it wasn't acceptable, this made me look like a fool so i down loaded its certifcation for use in said situe and it met all standards and told the plumber il be taking him to court for defamation.

After reading up on the tape and saw it met all his industry regulations and standards he quickly issued a written apology to both me and the customer and offered to withdraw the callout charge to the repair... the customer accepted apology but still payed the plumber as he prefered the repair he did???? Well you cant win them all :censored:

 

[Andy78]

Sounds good, I'll definitely be getting a roll.

I can't say I blame the plumber really. If he had never seen this stuff I can imagine him baulking at a sparks having "put some tape round it".

Bloody Hell, just realised, I just stuck up for a plumber. How long am I banned for ?

 

[KAS1]

There's another good product on the market it's called "No more nails" I think carpenters (just joking if there is any carpenters reading this forum) use it all the time now lol

 

[i=p/u]

Ct1 , tec-7 Good where water involved

 

[GLENNSPARK]

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

well...upon starting to read this i thought `kevin kitchen installer` strikes again..
turns out to be a double act between old paddlebucket and `barry bathroom fitter`....