Had an interesting call last night

Spazz · Jul 13, 2012

I priced up a CU change only 2 months ago from old BS3036 rewirable to a new 17th Ed board.
I quoted £250 (now £325)

He never came back to me - I had a call last night at 9pm - he came back from Tesco to find his electric cupboard in flames! I tolded him to pull the main fuse and get on the phone to 999 - I arrived to find Fire Brigade there putting the fire out.

When I went in with the fire inspector we found a new 17th ed board - B&Q £50 job.
No stickers, no nothing!

Asked the home owner who installed it? - no answer
Did you install it? - Yes

When we pulled what was left of the cover off - we found that the main L&N had fused together (dont know why the main fuse didn't break)

Fire Officer has now refured this to LABC.

I think he has learned not to do the job himself!

The scary thing is we also found out last night that he has also installed a few more CUs around the place for family members - GOOD LUCK

DurhamSparky · Jul 18, 2012

If it never happened how can any one loose a job???

trev · Jul 18, 2012

If it did and there were procedural errors then someone has lost a job, a livelyhood and a pension

timbobelfast · Jul 18, 2012

Best to leave the story writing to the novelists.........

Deleted member 9648 · Jul 18, 2012

May not be entirely relevant,but a while back I was called to a local school to find the place evacuated and 3 fire applilances attending.(Scary as we do all the electrics there).....I was asked to accompany the fireman into the school as they suspected an electrical 'fire'. There was no smoke,but an appalling stink.....a few seconds with their heat detector was all it needed to find a red hot choke in a flu. So fire fighters will allow an electrician into a potential fire situation in some circumstances....Edit....(possibly in this case because I was the only one present who knew where to isolate the supply)