Pet hates

[TaffyDuck]

Aplogies if this thread has been done before.

When you go to a job what are your pet hates that you find a previous sparks has done? :banghead:

 

[Big n Daft]

Any loft insulation. Why cant it be the stuff that comes in panels and fixed to the rafters out of the bloody way, or the stuff in bags up there.
Then there's the "well its worked for years, its only since you've put that DCR thingy on that it doesnt work and you want me to pay for you to get it to work, it was fine before you buggered about with it. I dont like them big green wires on them pipes either."

 

[telectrix]

Any loft insulation. Why cant it be the stuff that comes in panels and fixed to the rafters out of the bloody way,

that's been my argument for years. why ruin a perfectly good attic , especially one that's been built properly, before those godawful space destroying roof trusses were invented. trusses are for hernias.

 

[trev]

Well my kitchen fitter said.........(insert phrase of your own choice)

 

[Doomed]

Circuits labelled 'lighting' that when you turn them off leave the lights on and turn all the computers off!
(The circuit labelled overhead heaters turned the lights off)

 

[Guitarist]

The customer saying that they will do the channelling, then finding it's not deep enough

 

[kathwilcox]

All of the previous listed plus,
banging your head,
decorators painting accessories,
missing the bottom step of your ladders,
hitting your thumb with your hammer,
forgetting that you have put your hammer on top of your steps and then moving them,
and two that drive me nuts,
coming out of someone's house covered in dog hair because they never clean up after it!
people who don't keep their kids out of your way while your working and they think that is OK for them to riffle through your toolbox/bag!

 

[Guitarist]

You just have to hope the kids rifling through your box don't find your megger, select 1000v and accidentally press the "test" button...

 

[brooky25]

Or the bloke that decides to energize a circuit your working on to put the kettle on, own fault I know for not locking off but when your upstairs working in a Jb you expect a grown up to know better

 

[Dan the spark]

People using your hole saw and not clearing it out grr that gets my goat

 

[gafc156]

have to say that twisting cpc`s together with tape wrapped around twenty times, and why do builders think they can cut out cpc`s on brass light fittings

 

[sparkdog]

Another one is having to explain to customers all the time how you are going to do things."Oh..I don't see how you can get the wire from here to there above all that plaster ceiling."And others who keep asking every ten minutes"How's it going?"

 

[gafc156]

why do so called sparks install new ccu`s with no correspondence of neutrals or cpc`s, and conductors all over the place

 

[Knobhead]

It’s an industrial one for me, but it must be the same for domestic.

Getting blamed for something going wrong when you’ve never been near it for months. Planed maintenance systems are great for attributing the blame on to the innocent.

I got the blame for £.5M of damage to a plant. It took me four months to find the culprit, it wasn’t me! Sub-standard spares supplied by an outside company. (I would love to name the company, but they’ve got more money than I have!)

 

[Kiers1970]

Smelly dogs, dog hair all stuck in the velcro on the knee pad fastener. Cats getting underneath the floor boards! Customers with back gardens that look like mine fields covered in shog dit... I could go on with these pet hates.....
Once, a customer said, 'Wait whilst we lock the dog away' it ran round the back door and jumped and bit at me between my legs!! thank god my snickers are a terrible fit and hang low down there!

 

[kathwilcox]

People who know that your coming to rewire their house/flat and dont pack a single thing away!
Smelly dirty students!