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 !

 

[Andyfm]

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At least they attempted to put a box on the circuit, I attended a fault about 7-8 years ago - a sizzling shower switch, I told her on the phone to pull the fuse of the supply to the shower at the mains and I`ll pop in later, she looked but she couldn`t find the right fuse to isolate it, OK I thought must have another fusebox tucked away out of sight.
I turned up, looked for the elusive box - nowhere to be seen
had a look at the cables and found that the shower cable had been connected straight into the henly block , No fuse , no RCD, nothing - except the 80 amp main fuse
Scary

Got a big rewire from that job though

 

[Ashley Williams]

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Me and my dad got a call off a friend who own a small corner shop. Saying that there is smoke coming out of his consumer unit and it smells. So got to the shop turned off the supply took the cover off to find a slug accross the main terminals. NICE

A

 

[TPES]

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Had a lady ring me up to say her bathroom downlights dont work, even with new lamps in.

The downlights fitted were LV, Non-fire rated MR16 lamps.

The lights was packed down tight with loft insulation.

 

[nickblake]

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A concerned land lord of a local curry house asked me to check some wiring that had been carried out by the tenants , i cant write down my words of what i said when i saw it but the pictures might give you an idea as they say pictures speak a 1000 words ,had no choice but to issue a danger notification and insist the place be closed down for a day or so to carry out remidial works and a full inspection ,think its going to open a large can of worms big worms

 

[Sintra]

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Looks like it needs ripping out and starting again.

What a mess god knows what you will find in the PIR.

 

[nickblake]

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Your not wrong there , back board is like paper so needs a new back board , all around the place there are broken sockets ,one of the indian staff had just got out of the staff room shower just above was an old batton lampholder all smashed nice eh , start to try and sort it out next monday , putting in a new TPN board ,new back board and all RCBO's on each circuit , im praying there are no major faults on the rest of the installation , as you can see from the pics theyve had one fire , even some of the cables that were melted are still in use arghhhh ill have my camera with me during the remidial works and PIR watch this space !!!

 

[mogga]

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nice phase order at the incoming head

 

[kung]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

A concerned land lord of a local curry house asked me to check some wiring that had been carried out by the tenants , i cant write down my words of what i said when i saw it but the pictures might give you an idea as they say pictures speak a 1000 words ,had no choice but to issue a danger notification and insist the place be closed down for a day or so to carry out remidial works and a full inspection ,think its going to open a large can of worms big worms

If that spider would have crawled up a bit the poor thing could have had a nasty accident

 

[kung]

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Your not wrong there , back board is like paper so needs a new back board , all around the place there are broken sockets ,one of the indian staff had just got out of the staff room shower just above was an old batton lampholder all smashed nice eh , start to try and sort it out next monday , putting in a new TPN board ,new back board and all RCBO's on each circuit , im praying there are no major faults on the rest of the installation , as you can see from the pics theyve had one fire , even some of the cables that were melted are still in use arghhhh ill have my camera with me during the remidial works and PIR watch this space !!!

What indian restaurant was this ? I only ask coz last week when i got home from the indian i found some bit of ceiling rose in my nan bread !

 

[nickblake]

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If that spider would have crawled up a bit the poor thing could have had a nasty accident [/QUOT if he had realised i think he may have vindaloo

 

[nickblake]

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What indian restaurant was this ? I only ask coz last week when i got home from the indian i found some bit of ceiling rose in my nan bread !

dont worry unless you were in wales , suppose your nan was light and fluffy then

 

[m25maintenance]

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A concerned land lord of a local curry house asked me to check some wiring that had been carried out by the tenants , i cant write down my words of what i said when i saw it but the pictures might give you an idea as they say pictures speak a 1000 words ,had no choice but to issue a danger notification and insist the place be closed down for a day or so to carry out remidial works and a full inspection ,think its going to open a large can of worms big worms

i done that installation b4 i went to specksavers

 

[Sintra]

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Your eyesight must be real bad even a blind person could do better.

 

[m25maintenance]

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Your eyesight must be real bad even a blind person could do better.

u must be dumb if u cant see ur reading a joke

 

[Phil]

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u must be dumb if u cant see ur reading a joke

i think you will find that sintra was Joking when he posted that,