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 !

 

[Kamikaze]

Tomorrows little mission. Oh the joy…..oh the joy! The gaffer wants it tidied up. He’s living the dream he is! There is only one thing that will happen to that in the morning. It’s coming out!!! :60:

 

[Marvo]

Just put a lid on it. Fixed

 

[Specialist]

Tomorrows little mission. Oh the joy…..oh the joy! The gaffer wants it tidied up. He’s living the dream he is! There is only one thing that will happen to that in the morning. It’s coming out!!!


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Your boss is either a bit of a sadist or he thinks your sooty with a Magic wand lol.

 

[Kamikaze]

Nah, he just hates me…lol

 

[Specialist]

:thumbs_down:

 

[Mr.Si]

Can we have an AFTER shot please?

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[Kamikaze]

Slipped up there, forgot to take an after-shot picture but it’s a Merlin Gerin thing of beauty now…lol
The thing is, I’m sure the boss will go mental when he sees the paperwork for it as I’m sure he hasn’t priced for it. What he doesn’t know is that I cut the whole thing out as it was. There was plenty of slack on the cables in the ceiling void. When he starts shouting, I will just nip to the van, get it out and plonk it on his desk. Followed by the words “ You wanted it tidied up, go ahead, fill your boots” :biggrin:
And don’t go feeling sorry for him. He’s got plenty of money and he will find a way of claiming it back.

 

[gigeyes]

One full day of fault finding

RCD tripping, put a test on it and found it was faulty, replacement still tripping, found water in the downstairs lighting circuit, still tripping, found a bees nest in the loft open connectors covered in honey, still tripping, found water in the upstairs inline extract fan printed circuit board. Some days are very tough!

 

[jamminuk]

Gigeyes - Crack me up mate - Hope you got it all working in the end

 

[sparc]

Customer had moved into house six months before, in the spring. Didn't really use heating much until following winter, but couldn't get heating or hot water using the controller - only by manually switching on at the boiler. Eventually the controller appeared to die completely, so I was called in to fit new controller and thermostat.

The thermostat put in by previous owners (not long before selling, apparently) was wireless - but I couldn't find a receiver wired into boiler. Then I took the controller off it's mounting plate .... It had looked like it was wired into FCU to the right, but oh, no. The rest you can guess.

 

[Dipzy]

Hi,
Newbie here, 3rd year 2330, have to say I am truly shocked (no pun intended) to see the amount of shoddy and dangerous work carried out by "supposedly qualified" people shown here. How do they sleep at night? Sorry..... not going to continue with rant.
Dipzy

 

[High Tower]

Hi,
Newbie here, 3rd year 2330, have to say I am truly shocked (no pun intended) to see the amount of shoddy and dangerous work carried out by "supposedly qualified" people shown here. How do they sleep at night? Sorry..... not going to continue with rant.
Dipzy

You will never cease to be amazed at the dumb and downright crazy things people find to do with electrical installations!

 

[breakerman]

How do you mean connected through the light to the switch ? Why do the they do it ? Cause they can & it's a quick buck, they don't give a damn that they're putting peoples lives / property at risk.

Hi, I just bought a light fitting to replace an old cieling rose, but not completed the fitting yet, the only thing i did was to wire the connections in the ceiling into a choc box before recoconnection the supply; however when i tried to reconnect by flicking on the fuse in the consumer unit, the lighting supply wont come back on, doesnt even trip, as if no supply feeding through

 

[telectrix]

have you got all the reds in the same terminal? a pic would help.

 

[breakerman]

have you got all the reds in the same terminal? a pic would help.

hi

cheers, i cant seem to upload any pics, but what i'm lookin to do is put the cieling rose back again and start again; my main prob with this is reconsiling the wires in the correct terminals, i have a simple rose attached on one side is brown and the other is blue, as far as cieling wiring is concerned i have two black wires that i believe were inserted in the section on the left attached to the live; a cpc; and 4 diffarant red wires that were split between the section of the other two termanals; two of course being the swith live and the other two that has to go to the nuetral left set of termanals
hope that sounds right:dizzy2: