Everyone makes mistakes, Whats yours ?

[sparkie710]

Everyone will always make mistakes and now we all laugh about them but at the time we just want to go home. So what mistakes have people made here’s just a few of mine loll.

1. When I was an apprentice we was re-wiring houses and that obviously involves lifting single floor boards up. So yea you guessed it not once but twice has my foot fell down and gone throw the ceiling. Least I keep plasterers in their job.

2. Wiring up smoke alarms in a domestic property in the hallway, knocked a massive hole in the ceiling fished a wire across then realized the light didn’t have a permant live.

3. And my favorite, had to replace already wired smokes, and we only saw one in a house. so we replaced that and wired in a new one then realized the smoke originally had a 3 core in it, only realized there was one in the lounge so we replaced that and had to tell the woman that its safer to have 3.

4. Somebody told me a story that they were working in a room doing sockets, and an electrician was in the opposite, then out of the corner of his eye the duvet started moving. Apparently the other guy drilled through the wall, caught the duvet then went to take the drill out and nearly pulled the duvet through as well.

 

[Kamikaze]

he said .25 mill, so you're in the lead so far.

and is that why your screen name is Kamikazi?

Sorry, didn’t spot the dot in front of the 25. I can’t believe I’m No 1. Wish I could say it was an honour.
Now Kamikaze that’s another story….lol :smile5:

 

[telectrix]

and i've got to be way down the list with a drilled C/H pipe . total cost £300 and that was because the scroat of a customer conned us out of a new carpet saying it was water damaged , but in reality it had been scratched into shreds by his bloody cat. funny how he managed to drive his artic over 2 broken beer bottles a week later.

 

[SimpleSimon]

and i've got to be way down the list with a drilled C/H pipe . total cost £300 and that was because the scroat of a customer conned us out of a new carpet saying it was water damaged , but in reality it had been scratched into shreds by his bloody cat. funny how he managed to drive his artic over 2 broken beer bottles a week later.

Shame for the customer. My one was last week, put a hole through a wall chasing cables. Didn't realise until two days later. Not alot of cost and about 3 hours work for the plasterer after painting and drying. So not alot yet, but room for improvement. 
This was the day I was asked to rewire a kitchen ring, cooker and a fuse board in a day.... Mistakes where bound to happen. There were more but nothing that costs.

 

[Knobhead]

Only £250,999 so far. I'm a novice! :whatchutalkingabout

 

[Kamikaze]

Just remembered another one from a long time ago.
Picture this: Working in a barn conversion. Had to drill a hole through the wall from the inside for the extractor fan in the toilet. Up on the steps using a great big kango and a 4¼ inch core cutter (no SDS drills with clutches in them days). The drill bit jammed and I had to let go of the drill. Unfortunately the little button on the side was pushed in and the drill kept going. Only now it was winding up the 110V lead from the transformer. Quickly jumped down to switch the transformer off. While I was doing that, the drill had wiggled itself free and fell onto the sink smashing it to pieces. From there it bounced onto the toilet also smashing that to pieces. The client learned a few new swear words that day.

 

[alarm man]

i dont make mistakes..cough,sniff..:cool3:

 

[telectrix]

finding this forum could be classed as a mistake. it's bloody addictive. " hi, my name's tel, and i'm a forumaholic"

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Fixing a sub board in a garage (the garages with the thin concrete panels) Went at it with a rotary hammer for the fixing screws and cracked the panel down the middle.....bit of filler and some grey spray paint we found hid that one.................

 

[SimpleSimon]

i dont make mistakes..cough,sniff..:cool3:

You just provided lessons we can all learn from. 

 

[Guest123]

The ex wife!!!!!:2guns:

 

[alarm man]

The ex wife!!!!!:2guns:

ive never married you lenny...

 

[telectrix]

don't mention ex wives without having garlic and a consecrated cross to hand.

 

[ipf]

I remember rewiring an old shop on the main street. My labourer was upstairs sinking a socket in a wall when I heard a dull thud and a load of cursing. Straight through a single brick wall into next door.....BARCLAYS BANK.

 

[Superspark23]

I was knicknamed Hughes for a little while

1) My mate was drilling an 22mm hole and wanted me to shout when it went through, Little did i know i missunderstood what bedroom he wanted me to watch i cleared the area i thought he would be drilling in too. so i was standing there shouting still not through, he kept going through, shouting to me are sure. i was yep keep going, In the bedroom i was ment to be watching there was this brand new stereo attached to his drill bit spinning with it. Soo funny, customer saw the funny side thank god!

2) I moved a brand new 37" hd plasma tv so i didn't damage it, my pliers slipped out of my pocket and left an nice 4" scratch across the screen the customer wasn't happy, they only had it a week.

3) drilled through an copper water tank! luckily for me it was empty and being taken out that day. I didn't know this

4) broke some switches on a new gas boiler, not sure what i did there

5)fitted a new battery to an emergency light, in series i got my cables in a muddle and shorted one battery out, there was a massive bang after putting the fitting back together

6) Here i was pretty lucky and from now on i allways ensure my circuits are dead, my mate turned the the wrong circuit off, and then ripped the cooker plate off, somehow not shorting any cabled, i grabbed hold of the cabe live neutral and earth all bear ends in my hands, how on earth i didnt get a burn or anything i do not know my muscles in my hands contracted and i had yank my body back to let go.

7) a few weeks before christmas a tennent had 2 large turkeys in her freezer. i forgot to plug it back in and ruined them for her.

 

[sythai]

Doing a rewire, realised when come to 2nd fix that I had pulled 3-core in for the ring instead of T+E......

Done that one also when I was boy..... lol