not so unusual fault

[wallygerk]

just a story i thought id share

was rewiring a burnout in wandsworth with my mate in january when on the second day was a knock on the door. It was the lady next doors handyman saying all power was down to oneside of her kitchen and asked if it could be anything to do with us, told him shouldnt be but id have a quick look. went in there sure enough 20 amp radial tripping breaker unplugged everything tried to reset no good. weather was cold so put her boiler on a plugtop and told her i didnt have time that day to fault find but would do so if she could in a couple of days if she couldnt find an electrician.

upon getting her boiler running she gave me a parking permit saving me about 60 quid and said to me that over the past 5 years the electrics randomly tripped out whenever she plugged anything in!!. I told her she probably had a few problems and recommended a condition report to which her reply was...

''Oh no theirs nothing wrong with the electrics in here im a healer you see and the power of my aura interfers with electrical fields and i am extremely powerful at the minute''

anyway she got a spark in that day who told me there was a fault on a leg of 2.5 buried in the screed glad she didnt ask me back lol

 

[Andy78]

Best "customer knows best" story I have heard for a while.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

just a story i thought id share

was rewiring a burnout in wandsworth with my mate in january when on the second day was a knock on the door. It was the lady next doors handyman saying all power was down to oneside of her kitchen and asked if it could be anything to do with us, told him shouldnt be but id have a quick look. went in there sure enough 20 amp radial tripping breaker unplugged everything tried to reset no good. weather was cold so put her boiler on a plugtop and told her i didnt have time that day to fault find but would do so if she could in a couple of days if she couldnt find an electrician.

upon getting her boiler running she gave me a parking permit saving me about 60 quid and said to me that over the past 5 years the electrics randomly tripped out whenever she plugged anything in!!. I told her she probably had a few problems and recommended a condition report to which her reply was...

''Oh no theirs nothing wrong with the electrics in here im a healer you see and the power of my aura interfers with electrical fields and i am extremely powerful at the minute''

anyway she got a spark in that day who told me there was a fault on a leg of 2.5 buried in the screed glad she didnt ask me back lol

wonder if she glows when stood under pylons?

 

[captainkev]

I had a job today, take out old and fit new cooker (supplied by customer). so did the work, turned power back on, new cooker not working! so opened up the cooker switch to find the feed live was out of the connection, fixed this everything ok, so old cooker was probably ok all along

 

[GLENNSPARK]

I had a job today, take out old and fit new cooker (supplied by customer). so did the work, turned power back on, new cooker not working! so opened up the cooker switch to find the feed live was out of the connection, fixed this everything ok, so old cooker was probably ok all along

but might have been an idea though to test the cooker cable first...to see if theres any juice in it.....
what do you think?:redface:

 

[markc123]

I had a job today, take out old and fit new cooker (supplied by customer). so did the work, turned power back on, new cooker not working! so opened up the cooker switch to find the feed live was out of the connection, fixed this everything ok, so old cooker was probably ok all along

Lol didn't you check the connections before condeming the old cooker?

 

[captainkev]

it was one of them jobs for a mate of a mate, quick in, quick out few quid for a few beers thanks very much. the best thing was though they had been without a cooker for a few weeks whilst saving up for a new one

 

[markc123]

Slightly harsh lol. You could of kept the old cooker in, and your mate could of sent the older cooker (still packed) back and got a refund.

 

[captainkev]

did offer that but his missus had the final say and she wanted a nice new shiny cooker instead of having to clean the old greasy one

 

[markc123]

There willing to replace like-for-like goods at the cost of £100's of pounds when theres nothing wrong with the originals...

Can i have their address lol?