Problems after water damage.

[Amp David]

Looked at a job today where a burst pipe in the loft has soaked a bathroom and bedroom upstairs and most of the kitchen downstairs.
Problems are now shower not working, a few lights dead, cooker dead and damp socks no doubt.

I decided to go down the periodic route as there's never been one done, plus it'll give him an insight of what if any damage the water has done.

Just really asking if this is the route theat most others would of took, or would you have just replaced or fixed the odd light he had got you in there to do in the first place.

 

[SirKit Breaker]

PIR is a good route, IR tests should show up any water ingress into cables and fittings.

Cheers.........Howard

 

[IQ Electrical]

I'm doing one of my own tomorrow, I printed off the leaflet below for the client:

http://www.esc.org.uk/pdfs/safety-in-the-home/flood_advice.pdf

PIR tomorrow morning, we can compare notes!

 

[SirKit Breaker]

Very useful, cheers.

 

[Amp David]

Luckily it wasn't the full house that was flooded, but its made a right mess of the ceilings

 

[Octopus]

Are you sure that the house is totally dry? If water/moisture remains in the "fabric" of the house it could easily give you misleading results.

 

[IQ Electrical]

The insurance company authorised the inspection and any remedials with a £1500 total limit-any costs above this and an assessor has to be involved.

 

[Amp David]

1499.99 it is then lol

 

[IQ Electrical]

1499.99 it is then lol

It's greed like yours that spoils this industry, £1485 will be fine, it's Christmas season!

 

[sparky1502]

It's greed like yours that spoils this industry, £1485 will be fine, it's Christmas season!

did u not read the advert saying sparks earn 30 k a year lol

 

[IQ Electrical]

did u not read the advert saying sparks earn 30 k a year lol

Damn, I missed it!

 

[Richard]

Sorry this is a bit off topic, But..

About 6 months ago we had to go to a job with water damage. Upstairs pipe burst, lights ect wet.

So we turned up, checked all light fittings ect, reset the Rcd (Whole instalation on one rcd). BANG. Turned the lights off, reset and BANG again!! Narrowed it down to the sockets.
Took every socket off and nothing unusual. Tested for ring, and no Ring on the Live. By now things were getting confusing!

Long story short... It turned out that somebody had tried putting up some shelfs in the kitchen, Hit the cable, trip reset and held ok. Now after the leak, water had TRACKED DOWN THE CABLE (it was in plastic capping) and voila, BANG!

The lady said she had been living there for 20 years and there were never shelves there in her time....Funny how faluts can take so long to appear sometime!

 

[IQ Electrical]

You never see it all in this business!