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

 

[High Tower]

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

What, the underneath of your sandwich??, where had it gone??, had Zombie pigeon eaten it??

 

[Guitarist]

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

You must have really upset someone for them to do that....

 

[ayjay]

working in the loft of an old estate gatehouse,2 old guys lived there
i noticed a hole through the loft insulation across the other side ,with bits of paper around it, i thought to myself "maybye theres some bank notes/money hidden there, so i crawled across and pulled back the insulation
lo and behold, about 4 ancient mouse nibbled -----mags-a vibrator-and a half used tube of ky gel- of course i took the mags home ,but not the other 2 items

 

[clicon357]

Worked at a BIG, POSH hotel in west London. 28 floor tower with low level "wings" coming off it. Perimeter lights etc on the wings shining down to illuminate the grounds etc, access cradles for cleaning the windows and so on. The low level wings were LITTERED with jaz mags, KY tubes, condoms etc plus TV remotes, paperbacks, empty miniatures and the big old style telephone directories. We used to refuse to work up there until it had been cleaned. My mate refused to go up unless he was wearing a hard hat. No laughing matter being hit by a used hypodermic or dildo dropped from the 28th floor! Turns out the hotel used to rent whole floors to the US Navy. They would be driven up on coaches from Southampton etc and go BERSERK in London for a few days. The local ladies of the night made a killing.

Then another job near London Bridge. We used to know it a Dogs**t House. The live in caretaker had a flat on the top floor and kept an alsation and jack russell. He used to exercise them on the roof and they'd cr@p and pi$$ everywhere. Again we refused to work until it was cleaned up. His SOLUTION was to double up a couple of bin bags and dot them around the roof. Of course they eventually became too heavy to lift so you had these sh!t statues that just got bigger and bigger over the years!

Brandon Estate? Kids ripping the temporary covers off the lift shafts and emptying bin bags down on us! Roundshaw Estates in Wallington - they used to throw USED nappies at us!

Another place in Cambridge, the caretaker lived on the grounds and would escort us through the building, up into the lift motor room and then out onto the roof. All the time he'd be watching us like a hawk and would keep checking up on us. It was pouring one day so we sat with a flask in the lift motor room. Found his scotch and **** stash! Seems he's tell his missus he was "just doing my nightly checks Dear!" and dive off for a quick one on the roof. Think I've still got a copy of Fiesta from there! Funny, he never mentioned it - always like to think it might have been his favourite mag!

Anyway, I'm off to join the US Navy! :smile5:

 

[ayjay]

exellant clicon and all the other posters--------------------------------
i subbyed on some council house rewires , well- theres always the last few "difficult" houses left at the end that no one wants to go into-
so-- we teamed up with anoter pair of sparkies to rewireone of the problem houses on a saturday-- we reckoned we could finish it in a day, all 4 of us--
when we went in,it bloody stunk, dog crap everywhere
the bedroom smelt terrible but we couldn,t find where the stink was coming from-
turned out the girl who lived there was putting her used tampons into the airing cupboard, behind the h/w cylinder-- (perhaps she was drying them out to use them again!

 

[Dan]

Thought I'd bump this bad boy.

 

[Rpa07]

That IS a bad boy - not sure if I wish to immerse myself (I've just had a bath)!

 

[telectrix]

That IS a bad boy - not sure if I wish to immerse myself (I've just had a bath)!

how come? it's not xmas yet, despite all the hype in the shops.

 

[Rpa07]

Twice a year for me - lead up to Christmas. I always think of it as a pre-soak.
Mondays off as always work Saturdays in nursery upgrade (no kids to climb up your ladder or drop tools on!) turns into admin day so win win

 

[sparkdog]

Got bitten,stung or scratched in an attic space recently. There was a little red mark on the side of my knee and over the next few days it got itchy and bigger and started oozing. Had to go and see the Doc, turned out it was impetigo and I was put on a large dose of antibiotics for over a week.

 

[Pete999]

For you blokes that do rewires, you know how you have lifted the floor board you need up and you can't quite stretch far enough to get the cable that has bee poked up, and you have tried fishing it with wire coat hanger, so you try and reach that bit further and your hand that isn't under the floor touches something nasty, well it happened to me once the thing I touched was a Ladies thing and it was fresh, put me off for a while, but not too long.

 

[sunray]

1) As an apprentice in 1972 I went into a house to fit a phone. It smelt horrible but the front room, where we had to work, looked ok. All we had to do was run a cable along the skirting behind the sofa, we pulled the sofa out and the dof poo filled the space to about a foot high. We just left without a word, leaving the sofa in the middle of the room.
2) Lifting the lid of a pavement joint box it was full of sewage, we pumped it out into a nearby sewer and pressure washed it. As we were working more ran in intermittantly. About 10 ft from the box was a fairly new patch in the asphalt and digging it up revealed a new 110mm foul pipe plumbed (very badly) into our P.O.duct
3) Working on sound and lighting in night clubs we never put our hand into any void without a marigold AND a leather glove, there would be all sorts of animals and and their s**t, used condoms, needles, stash, human s**t, s**tty knickers/pants etc. In one we took out 4 12ft bench seats against the wall and promptly asked for the debris to be cleared before we worked on the plethora of damaged cables. The guy went to the local toot shop for a cheap pack of 50 black bags. Big mistake as he really needed more than 50 and as he handled them the needles & blades were shreading the bags, he ended up with a trail of the offensive mixture through the building. The seating area was then washed with loads of disinfectant before we repaired the chewed cables.
4) Changing a temp sensor in a an extract air duct a horrible yellow/brown liquid poured out. this was above head height and is covered my hair, face and shirt. The grill was set in the floor of the toilet above (used to be a fairly common technique) and the pan connector had a big split to the soil was leaking directly into the duct.
5) Working inside the extract duct and the drain of an offices kitchen feeding about 1000 people daily. Loadsa fat!

 

[sunray]

Actually thinking about this a bit more;
Using the toilets on a big building site, especially on a Monday morning after a weekend of lager and kebabs

 

[sunray]

Actually thinking about this a bit more;
Using the toilets on a big building site, especially on a Monday morning after a weekend of lager and kebabs

 

[FatAlan]

Not electrician related but 25 years ago I had cause to visit a house. As I entered the hallway my shoes started sticking to the carpet. There was an unbearable ammonia type stench of urine which stopped me breathing in properly.There were Two very friendly staffies wondering around amongst a number of their old turds also on the floor. There was a baby in a high chair eating a piece of bread which fell onto the floor. One of the dogs had a quick lick before the mother rescued it and gave it back to the baby. One thing you could say now, is that baby probably had one fantastically primed immune system.