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 !

 

[Gerry24]

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Got a call from a letting agent to quote for sorting a problem out in a house they have just let to a tenant. Situation is there is a wall switch in a bedroom but no actual pendant. However, in the bathroom which is through the wall from the bedroom there is a shaver light with a pull cord switch and in order for the pull switch to work the wall switch in the bedroom needs to be turned on!

 

[Bigboy247]

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Went to a house to connect a cooker circuit, told cable already in 6mm T&E fine, went to the board not connected fine just cable there marked up all fine. Explained to the customer no more ways in the board she said dont worry just disconnect the lights downstairs as she never uses them?. Went to another house lights upstairs keep blowing the fuse, later found dad had connected the outside flood lights to a jb srewed to the gutter with T&E so when it rained the water rushed through the JB.So many stars out there to help my bank balance.

 

[m25maintenance]

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[m25maintenance]

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I fount this which was fitted by a guy claiming to be an english spark this. 9.5kw shower .no rcd no 3pole switch, used a spur instead. O my god. He took the water supply from the toilet supply. So if u shower and the toilet is flushed u get no water. I cant wait to phone the guy up and try to hire him. The shower blew up today as the lady was in it

 

[m25maintenance]

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Thats a real beauty

 

[Had8Lives]

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Did a board change yesterday and the customer said the cooker switch is a bit wobbly. Took the face plate off because the polarity was wrong anyway and found out why it wobbled! Take a look Q¿Q

 

[m25maintenance]

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i must get that guys number as i need a cooker doing soon

 

[johnboy6083]

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Did a board change yesterday and the customer said the cooker switch is a bit wobbly. Took the face plate off because the polarity was wrong anyway and found out why it wobbled! View attachment 3066Take a look Q¿Q

not enough no more nails!

 

[PhilRance1950]

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Called out on sunday rcd tripping on ring main . Water had collected from condension from felt in the attic dripping on J/B fixed to wall plate

 

[ringer]

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Called out on sunday rcd tripping on ring main . Water had collected from condension from felt in the attic dripping on J/B fixed to wall plate

Tell your customer they need to attend to the ventilation in the loft - with proper ventilation there should be no condensation. People these days seem to think you need to stuff the loft full of insulation and block all holes to the outside - result is sodden roof timbers and sarking felt, leading to severe problems a few years down the line.

 

[gutterball]

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doing a pat test today, 2 lamps next to bed pulled bed forward to get to socket and discovered both flexes in to 1 plug with a 13 a fuse.

 

[derek preece]

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lol, I was on site today and one of the Polish lads came in with a 13amp extention lead with a pendant light fitting wired into the reel through a drilled hole, needless to say it was soon disconnected.

 

[redpaintz]

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Hi,

I have an electrical DB, with 100A 3phase main ELCB, that works fine when all breakers are ON.
I get a problem when I switch OFF a breaker (32A), and switch it ON again. The ELCB trips, I try
that a few times and then it works fine again. This happens with 3 of the 15 breakers that are
in the DB. Any idea why?

 

[carolmcg]

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new to this and could not find any easy way to post - so here goes - my shower switch has melted the cabling and I replaced it with another 45a switch (main wall outside bathroom). The replacement has now also melted after 4 months. I have now purchased a 50a double gang socket and was wondering if I needed to change my circuit breaker - hager 32a at present. My cooker circuit breaker is 40a. The shower is 7.5kw. thanks

 

[John Bunning]

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great one never seen before. guy locally asked me to check out his supply to small garden gazzebo type shed. he had lights in it .he was saying the supply cable was to short.as i allway check out stuff im a bit of a mug .but allway try to help people.as i installed the rcd outside socket i was happy to help.

when i got there found he had some how got 3 core swa 2.5 lashed up to 2 x13a plugs.one on each end of the swa cable .the far plug he had inserted in to a 4 way cable extension socket .leaving the free plug end of that on the floor[live plug]. this guy is a banker and was really not conserned in any way.but to his credit he gave me a free hand to sort.i got the pics and will show my nic/eic guy next year.