Tell us about your faults!

[kung]

Hi ALL
Just thought id put this one up for all those faults we find.
heres one to kick it off !
Domestic RCD tripped and wouldnt reset cause was a blown low energy light bulb.
There you go now for yours !

 

[pennywise]

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Don't worry that bit was sorted too changed the tails for double sheath ones from the switch fuse then raised the box and brought them through the same hole when I did the earth

 

[thepurple1]

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my wife thinks I have many faults

 

[confused-fuse]

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" i get a tingle when i have a shower " the sparky who wired this up as gone back to poland when the woman told me this i wonder why he as gone back ???

 

[confused-fuse]

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same house onsuit shower same sparky he wired the shower to main ring no rcd !!! and really bad earth tag

 

[davelerave]

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I got called to a house to rectify a cooker circuit that had tripped and stopped working. Traced the fault all the way back to inside to cooker only to find an electrocuted mouse between live and earth.........nice!

must have been some mouse -to trip the 32amp

 

[davelerave]

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got called back to a power shower 6 weeks after wiring it-shower not working

cable bit clean through-pulled right out of shower unit

 

[m25maintenance]

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" i get a tingle when i have a shower " the sparky who wired this up as gone back to poland when the woman told me this i wonder why he as gone back ???

i fixed something like that a few weeks ago. wires burning in the switch

 

[softail]

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called out on sun to a mate of a mate, he says i changed these 4 light fittings and now the fuse wont stay on. mmmmmnnnnn? me thinks i know what he`s done, yep when i get there all the blacks are in with the blacks and reds in ........well you get the picture

 

[m25maintenance]

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i was called out last week to a house where some eastern european workers fitted new kitchen and bathroom. customer said when he switches on the electric kettle to make tea the kitchen spot lights come on, he was correct. the polish builder just joined all blacks to blacks, reds, and so on. also all lights in kitchen and bathroom were directly wired to ring mains no fcu or connection blocks, just wires twisted 2gether. i felt sorry for the guy when he had to break his new tiles in the wc and kitchen, then to add to the bad day he drilled into a water pipe.

 

[rocker]

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m25 is that the same guy who ordered the guys from Slovakia from your other post? Cos if it is, you've answered your own question: British guys can compete by doing a decent job.

 

[m25maintenance]

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I hate that melting plastic smell,washed my hands about five times to get rid of it!

if u worked for mr electric he would have gave u a nice pair of gloves.lol

 

[kung]

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Here a Pic for push rod Rodent attack

Ive had loads of this in my house ALL gone now ! Last thing was my adelaide rosella was found at the bottom of her cage with her head missing in a unit i found kids toys chewed inc teddies etc for bedding ! as i was clearing it out i lifted the laptop and under was this BIG MOTHER rat so dropped laptop and stamped on it ! then the bastedo jumped out and flew under a unit so as there was no escape i carried on loading up a rubbish sack with the stuff and found 3 baby rats so drowned them shisters then for the mother when it flew out i stopped it with my foot on it and dragged it out by the tail threw the thing in a rat cage and dropped it in a big bucket of water bye bye rats bye bye buried half of my rosella took pics for anyone who thought it was cruel yer untill u get deseases or they bite u or a kid !

 

[confused-fuse]

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i had a right game today with hanging FU yes hanging no backbox & blue peter wiring to combi boiler again eastern european the woman said he showed me his eu electricain card he also said part P is only for english electricians who are not qualifild to EU standards he charged her 150.00 for wiring up the boiler .. i will upload images later

 

[confused-fuse]

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as promised 2 images oh dear im not Mr.D.Bailey lol

notice no cpc connected or sheathed

 

[AndrewMgan1976]

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as promised 2 images oh dear im not Mr.D.Bailey lol

notice no cpc connected or sheathed

Perfect job, easy access to joints and plenty of air for heat dissipatiion