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.

 

[telectrix]

getting married for the 1st time, green and innocent was my first mistake. the second and third time i blame on the booze.

 

[Guest123]

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.

You dont by any chance go to work in a black beret and long raincoat do you??? have a wife called Betty???

 

[alarm man]

You dont by any chance go to work in a black beret and long raincoat do you??? have a wife called Betty???

quality..:stuart:

 

[alarm man]

7) a few weeks before christmas a tennent had 2 large turkeys in her freezer.

were you cold..:cool3:

 

[Des 56]

Superspark
You can be excused the Turkeys, because if you put them in a freezer for too long they die

 

[telectrix]

thread is turning into gobbledegook

 

[Smugley]

I was asked to fix a ceiling light in a back extension that had stopped working. Couldn't detect voltage at the rose, with or without the switch on. Couldn't find feed from any other light nearby. Decided only thing was to trace the cable back to wherever it was junctioned. Put three 100mm holes in the ceiling before finding a switched-off FCU behind a sofa. Lighting in the extension had been spurred off the ring and the cleaner had turned it off. Lesson learnt.

 

[RomRobi]

Looking back now, I never in a million years thought I could be reponsible for such atrocity and pain I may have caused this customer. While still a learner I braggadod a customer I could change their fuse box. I saw a black thick cable coming from nowhere in the basement, with a bare aluminium strand of wire, slighty rusty sticking out of it. I decided to cut it off completely. Scrap I thought. (I guess someone knows what I am referring to). No testing done as customer thought he had a good bargain which at that time I thought he did.

Landlords if you watching this, Never ever ever use an under -experienced and qualified sparks like me 19yrs ago, or else you've had it.

 

[grimysparks80]

My worst mistake was in my first week with a new electrician at the company. I was with him to show him the ropes. was a really nice guy and even joked about how he was my apprentice for the week.
We went to skegness to wire a heating system. The plumbers couldnt get it finished that day and we couldnt commision so we arranged to go back the following day to finish off.
In the meantime i wired the immersion so the customer would have hot water that night.
all good so far and the new sparky was real pleased about an early finish.
We had just pulled up outside my house to drop me off when the phone goes.
Plumber cant get the immersion working.
He looked at me and said any idea whats wrong.
I said "oh no" and pulled the 15A rewireable fuse out of my pocket, where id put it so no one could turn it on while i was working on it.
The electrician was not very happy anymore and we drove the forty miles back to skeg in an uncomfortable silence.
I dont think he ever really forgave me for that.

 

[telectrix]

now that's taking safe isolation a bit too far

 

[grimysparks80]

Cant get any safer than having the fuse 40 miles away from the job. lol

 

[Knobhead]

Cant get any safer than having the fuse 40 miles away from the job. lol

It can, I was driving across the Sahara with the keys to an IsoLock that was in Derbyshire!

I was not popular!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Well just finished a first fix on a kitchen today in guiseley. saw "my" phone lying on the side...so i picks it up and me and the boss are off. Gets to the other side of leeds only to find that the phone i picked up was one of the kitchen fitters (we both have the same type of phone). Just done a round trip of nearly 20 miles to get it back to him as suppliers ring him on it all the time..........feel free to call me a numpty if you like.........:dots:

 

[grimysparks80]

tch. What a numpty :smile5: