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[hercule]

Found this just before lunch

 

[ackbarthestar]

Well just imagine it......
Rodent, FLASH, starts to bubble and boil while the internal fluids spurt out across the breakers ...... nice !

or is that too much information ?

 

[Guitarist]

Yeah it must, don't know the res of a Rat body, but it must have been a brown out. Or it could have been a black out, anyway it was dead.

Depends whether it was a black or brown rat I guess....

 

[RogertheBodger]

Depends whether it was a black or brown rat I guess....

Stop pinching my jokes ( I was going to get a white out involved but couldn't do it, but, thanks to you - Is there a white rat? )

 

[RogertheBodger]

Well just imagine it......
Rodent, FLASH, starts to bubble and boil while the internal fluids spurt out across the breakers ...... nice !

or is that too much information ?

Didn't see any evidence of that - but the picture is quite clear, Rat bomb.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Was it supplyimg more than 1 outlet then???

yeah.....a 2 gang that had been feeding a fridge and a washer....with a 1 gang off it above that had (presumably) been for a microwave..lol...

 

[Guitarist]

Stop pinching my jokes ( I was going to get a white out involved but couldn't do it, but, thanks to you - Is there a white rat? )

Sorry mate... :shame:

Albino rats are white...with lil pink beady eyes.

 

[hercule]

is it my eye,s or is there a 2.5 & 4,0 in the same mcb?

That was just the start. Absolute mess, lights are on 20A mcb, spiders web of jbs coming out of the cu - mass of cables disappearing into the wall - fairly small house with nothing fancy. Called out becasue a light stopped working, but just the tip of the iceberg. Smallest mcb is 20A.

Told them they really need to have full eicr and quoted £150 (will take a week just sorting out what goes where). Family with young kids no rcd's. cracked sockets, switches etc everywhere. No chance they will pay for eicr - even when they thought the £150 included sorting all problems...

 

[Guitarist]

You quoted them £150 for what you think is a week's work?

 

[hercule]

£150 to do eicr. I was exagerating about the time it would take to do the eicr. They wouldn't pay this, then found out they had assumed this would include fixing all faults - and declined on that basis. When I told them it would give them an assessment of their electrics, highlighting and prioritising potentially dangerous faults and areas where their and their families safety could be increased, but not including the actual work to rectify the faults they almost laughed.

 

[Guitarist]

People like this are not worth bothering with. Likely that even if they agreed, they would argue with your bill afterwards.

 

[telectrix]

hopefully it's only mice that get electrocuted, not the kids. these kind of customers make me see red. they'll spend £699 on a 54" plasma TV for the kids to watch plugged into an unsafe installation.

 

[Guitarist]

Sad thing is, their kids will grow up no doubt with the same attitude...