Errrrr disgusting!!!!!! Nasty side of electrical work!

[Jay Sparks]

Hi guys & gals,



So went to a call out the other day, fast food shop. Won't say wat fast food it was!! Anyway, one of the machines had stopped working. It was on its own dedicated circuit and the rcbo wouldn't turn on. So, I opened the cu (in a cellar) and a load of water peeed out. The bus bar and earth bar was green and so were a few of the cable terminations. So I suggested moving the board about a metre or so to the right. Easy enough job, as all the cables came from that way any way.



So i go round today to fit a couple a batttens to the wall with a piece of board on them for the cu.

The owner came down and wanted to see were the water was coming from. So i whipped my torch out and had a look into a cavity above and slightly behind the cu. I reached in to pull out what i thought was an old leather work mans glove!!!! Well i pulled this thing out and with a big girly screech, i dropped it to the floor. The owner bab'd himself, ha ha ha. It was only a big --- rat that had been dead for a long, long time.



The owner, still shaking, says to me "don't you like rats"? I said "not really that bothered about em but i don't want to be grabbing a dead one", hence the girly screech when i realised what it was.



So, what's the worst thing you guys ha e found, dead or alive, when doing a job?





Jay

 

[DurhamSparky]

potty trained???

 

[High Tower]

potty trained???

Yes.......Ie taught you to use the perfectly good toilets provided for you, with running water and everything

 

[DurhamSparky]

yes i was trained, however on a sub you have neither perfectly good toilets with running water or any thing!

on watch bilge poo's were the best!

 

[jay sean]

A few years ago we done the PIR test a 'pizza house' on the Leicester sq in London, we were there for three nights there were rats all over the place. The cockroaches knew when the staff had gone and used to come out of the woodwork.
It put me off pizzas to say the least

 

[Richard Burns]

One time guy came to me telling there was a dead rat in the plant, went over to under some shelves where they had moved stuff, yep rat dead in the corner. OK gloves on, pick up rat uhh, large pile of maggots dripping from it! Quickly bagged and burnt.

Also did a job clearing a warehouse were the owner had "gone bankrupt"; he had stored lots of stuff in there, really dangerous chemicals, wastes, and also a lot of specimens in jars, I do remember an eight legged pig foetus, try not to remember the rest.

 

[Inteificio]

Mine is nowhere near as bad as the above, but makes me laugh.

Was powering up a new laser.
Opening up the control box, although i could not find the carcass, gave the most wonderful smell of decomposing rat.
It was one of those that you could not see the wiring without sticking your head right in.

The bit that made me laugh is when we powered the laser up, the whole factory stank as the carcass was slowly cooked.

Nothing too see, but the images in my mind were not pleasant.

 

[Nik_lamb]

Was working on a lamp column once, I was having trouble getting the door off.... after a while fighting with the door the thing finally gave and to my horror about a million EARWIGS!! landed in my lap!Cheers!!........ I though Took ages to get them all off! Lol

 

[Des 56]

Just last week,I fitted a control box at the entrance to a property,it was one of those jobs that took time
Rawl bolted to wall,swa to terminate and control cables to play with

Opposite the path where I stood was some bushes and a sewer pipe/manhole

It was one of them that you often come across that looks Ok but stinks really bad
I have a good stomach for filth usually,but after a few minutes, the rank stink had me sucking air through the mouth to try and cope,ugh
No dead rats because they would have refused to put up with the filth

 

[Andy B]

Water dripping in mouth from a fridge in a mortuary.
Pigeon ****ting in my mouth.
Buying a cooked chicken at lunch time from a burger van, finding it still had its head on.
Hypodermic needles falling on my head after taking down light.
Repairing lights in undercroft in 2 foot of water and discovering its sewage.
Call out to a flooded carpark find a fountain of sewage from about ten foot. The guy I was with puked.
Putting a kango through a sewage pipe and it filling up the trench then shovelling it out.
Putting in a ring main for electric heating in a flat with so much rubbish I couldn`t see over it in some rooms. Mounted one heater 4 foot of ground.
Working in old peoples home and an old lady running round naked screaming.
The list goes on.

 

[johnboy6083]

Water dripping in mouth from a fridge in a mortuary.
Pigeon ****ting in my mouth.
Buying a cooked chicken at lunch time from a burger van, finding it still had its head on.
Hypodermic needles falling on my head after taking down light.
Repairing lights in undercroft in 2 foot of water and discovering its sewage.
Call out to a flooded carpark find a fountain of sewage from about ten foot. The guy I was with puked.
Putting a kango through a sewage pipe and it filling up the trench then shovelling it out.
Putting in a ring main for electric heating in a flat with so much rubbish I couldn`t see over it in some rooms. Mounted one heater 4 foot of ground.
Working in old peoples home and an old lady running round naked screaming.
The list goes on.

you sound like a glutten for punshment

 

[Guest111]

Once worked in a house and the woman was a relative of the boss,stood chatting and drinking a tin of strong lager whilst chatting to us as we worked,next thing was she p****d her pants and just carried on chatting like nothing had happened,other weird one same area went to house and on back of a door was the standard picture of Bob Marley,you know the one with a big joint in his mouth.Anyway I passed a comment on this and after a bit of rummaging in a drawer the young lady rang her boyfriend and started to swear at him down the phone,when she had finished I casually enquired if there was a problem to which she replied "yes I was going to roll us a joint each but that greedy so and so smoked it all and we only bought it last night".Must have been standard practice to give everybody a joint rather than a drink in their house.

 

[Nik_lamb]

Working in ex-squats is never fun.....

 

[Nik_lamb]

Always a needle where you lest expect it. Intake cupboards are a junkies fave!

 

[maffa ent]

we worked a fair bit on wter treatment works for a while, and was tightening a nut n bolt above inlet channel. my mate joked " ha don't drop your spa........." just as i did! i watched in horror as the spanner shaped indent in the river of ****e gradually disappeared towards the works, but there was no way i was trying to get it back! and i HATE losing tools!

 

[dwardy]

had a lovely job of re-lamping all 5 floors of a local multi story carpark. went back to my van at lunchtime to find a dead pigeon on my windscreen. put me right off my lunch as the underneath was missing