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 !

 

[Max Clayton]

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get rid of the car and get a motorbike and sidecar that will stop them if the noise from the engine does not stop the arsenal songs, the scare factor will!

Had zx 636 r had to get rid of it as we have a littlun on the way

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

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lucky you
kids are great wish I had more although the grandchildren wear me out
I ride a guzzi these days like me its slow but it gets me all over europe
my family are all chelsea supporters its scary when you visit always on the TV
another language to me as I know nothing about football or understand it

 

[High Tower]

lucky you
kids are great wish I had more although the grandchildren wear me out
I ride a guzzi these days like me its slow but it gets me all over europe
my family are all chelsea supporters its scary when you visit always on the TV
another language to me as I know nothing about football or understand it

Guzzis are soo cool! After a long line of super bikes I had a hyabusa and it was crap so I now have a Triumph sprint st and it's amazing to ride.

I have to agree Jurassic you gotta keep the stories coming they are priceless and well worth the read

 

[Max Clayton]

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lucky you
kids are great wish I had more although the grandchildren wear me out
I ride a guzzi these days like me its slow but it gets me all over europe
my family are all chelsea supporters its scary when you visit always on the TV
another language to me as I know nothing about football or understand it

We actually have 3 and one on the way,all 3 of mine are Chelsea supporters so I'm going to have another attempt well actually theirs three possible reasons I'v done this A.the Arsenal thing B.we're trying to beat the Bradey Bunch or C. Me and the wife just enjoy practising

On another note a bikes a bike no matter what it is as long as it has 2-3 wheels

 

[m25maintenance]

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this post has ended as they r chatting about the gunners, bikes and babies

 

[nickblake]

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Here a close call , the fault i posted yesterday well we found it 10 light fittings removed insulation tests at 0.00 and no continuity , all i can say is thank god for inspection camera's , after finding 2 live wires in the ceiling voides and a joint in cables thats beggers belife ,we couldnt find the fault tracing the cables in the ceiling voide found a cable 1.5 changed to 1.5 3 core ,then no sign of a joint cor connection but located to a joint in the ceiling wires twisted together and taped , tracing the cable back we spotted a bulge in the artex and decided to investigate hole time and found well burt out wiring very close call to burning the place down i think ,one of the pics also shows a burnt out socket , traveling fairground plugged into it for 2 days i bet there wasnt a 13 amp fuse in that extension lead

 

[nickblake]

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opps fogot to add the socket pic

 

[nickblake]

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and here the pic 2 days of supplying a caravan for a fair ground

 

[m25maintenance]

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blody hell. bad news for the owner, good news for you. i was called to a warehouse that supplies imported food today. they have a butchery on one floor. said when they use one of the meat dryers it trips the breaker.the dryer is all stainless steel. i opened the thing up to see the line wires arching onto the bodywork. there were no grommets where the wires passed through the holes so wires were cutting . i found it hard to get a heat resistant 2.5 stranded single cable anywhere. do u lads know any suppliers. i did go rs but no stock. the dryers are south african imported. also no heat resistant gromets on sale. i used 25mm armour glands to fill the holes. i think the staff were lucky the dryer was earthed

 

[Ohmyword]

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blody hell. bad news for the owner, good news for you. i was called to a warehouse that supplies imported food today. they have a butchery on one floor. said when they use one of the meat dryers it trips the breaker.the dryer is all stainless steel. i opened the thing up to see the line wires arching onto the bodywork. there were no grommets where the wires passed through the holes so wires were cutting . i found it hard to get a heat resistant 2.5 stranded single cable anywhere. do u lads know any suppliers. i did go rs but no stock. the dryers are south african imported. also no heat resistant grommets on sale. i used 25mm armour glands to fill the holes. i think the staff were lucky the dryer was earthed

Perhaps an Appliance Repair Co. might stock something like that? (Someone that does cooker repairs?)

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

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heres on to make you laugh
old jurassic is multi skilled I do soem carpentry and decorating
years of working for a building firm you see, some months back I painted a shop for a fella, hes ok just a bit slow writing cheques out and complains about every penny spent, and yet having just started a business he buys a new merc!!!!
hey ho
while I was finishing the paintwork he told me that the inside of the shop would be painted by his team!!
I dont know who they are but it took him longer to clear up and make good than it would for me to paint it
I ended up going back and putting it right
so he asks me about some electrical work, I said I could not give him a price but an hourly rate plus materials as you never know what you will find, many lights were not working and sockets u/s plus all sorts of other odds and ends
he declines and says his busines partner will do it, I ask what his business partner is? an insurance underwriter
thats good I think if the place burns down he will know what to say
late last night he rings up trying to fit a socket his business partner has shut all the power off and the alarm is playing up and no computer or phones??
so I gently cycles down with some tools ( fast response bike for town work)
and has a look, it seems some muppet alarm engineer has drilled a 10 mm hole in the back of the galvanised box and taken a spur off in 2.5, no grommet sharp edges and evidence of burning
business partner had removed said spur as alarm has been replaced and simply plastered over the wires no insulation
this must have been tripping for some time before hand and killed the main RCD
I put in a temporary supply to the alarm from another C/U and called it a night
today I went back fitted a new one and sorted all the wiring, really it would have been easier to get me to do it
i am going to enjoy writing out that bill
the worst bit is the other faults shown up
gas pipes resting on the C/U
incoming supply cables to cut out zip tied to a gas pipe
Ze way too high and no way of knowing where the rod is
and the cross bonding ws not continous but a mish mash of clamps and wires
wonder who did that?

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

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heres another to cheer you up, I might even put a photo on, only might
sorting out the wiring in a house for a client, I asked her to tidy as much stuff away as possible due to the drilling and chasing going on
it makes cleaning up easier, she was staying away for a few weeks to let us get done
first day not too bad, dirty lots of chiselling etc, then a good clean up
towards the end of the week we move upstairs for some alterations
go in the bedroom to locate a socket put my hand round the back of a small cabinet to pull it out, my hands are touching some wires and the next thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
a tingling feeling
I jumped right back thinking I had got a belt off a loose wire
then a knocking and rattling on the floor??????????????
now this house is a bit spooky all dark colours and dead bats on the walls
I am thinking some kind of small living thing is waiting to eat me
my mate comes up and having better eyesight than me he walks round the cabinet laughing and lifts out the problem
oh my this thing was huuuuuge
it had more battery power than a toyota prius, what was worse neither of us could work out how to turn it off
we must have looked well weird laughing and fiddling with it
glad the customer was not at home
eventually we susses its remote control and I have kneeled on it!!!!
at my age I dont need shocks like that any more
we thought that was the end of it, should have known better, this house had a double socket above the gas cooker so you can imagine the sort of things we found
a 230v extractor fan in the shower compartment
a shower with no CPC connected
when clearing out the bathroom to sort the shower and fan and light in the cubicle (230v)
I trod on a plastic thing and snapped it, not sure what it was I kept it in case it was important
it looked like a plastic cover to put over your eye
we both thought it was for trimming your eyebrows so you dont hurt your eye!
I left it in the kitchen and when the job was done apologized to the customer about breaking her eyelash trimmer, she gave me a very confused look
I gave it to her and she laughed so much neither of us could get any sense out of each other
seems it not for your eyes?
now after being married for well, a long long long time I thought I had seen it all
now I have
whatever next

 

[ringer]

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I take it we have to use our imagination to work out what those two things were then. I have an idea what one of them was (not heard of a remote controlled one before though) but the 'eyelash trimmer' has me completely at a loss.

 

[Jurassic Sparks]

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well if you think about trimming something a little lower down perhaps
heres a link to what one is
Va j j Visor- Review of Va j-j Visor, Female Cup, Protection During Brazilian Waxing and Hair Removal
trouble is I had stuck it over my eye and done a pirate impression!!!

 

[opm electrical]

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a friend of mine asked me to do some work in his house as he was moving some stud walls and the previous owner had gone spotlight crazy and he wanted them out. i might as well expain, first three pics: there was originally a box section designed to look like it was a lintel. what it was hiding was an inaccessable (accessible with a pad saw) tranny for kichen spots, wired in all the lovely choc block and tape into the upstairs ring. next two pics: the lights in the hall were wired into more choc block and tape into the cooker circuit, what wound me up about this was that where the joint was all the circuits from the board were in the same floorspace cavity. so the was lighting cicuits that could have been used, this was feeding the 2 switches in the 6thth pic chased down the wall as seen in pic 7(pic is on its side) oh and also feeding a socket too