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 !

 

[C&H]

now i'm not one for nit-picking but.......
cable management could be improved slightly me-thinks, orange cable is 3.3kv, blue pipes are water
Zs at the dist board is 3.94 ohms
and last but not least, if you haven't got an mcb just stick a main switch in!

p.s. anyone know the max zs for the main switch to meet disconnection times?!

 

[Matth]

I got a call to one of my customers mothers house who had just had a new kitchen fitted, and now her shower didnt work.

All MCB's in the on position.............the breaker for the shower had actually been installed upside down, so when it was what she thought was the on position, it was actually off !! I dont know why the fitters were in her consumer unit, or why they turned her breaker upside down !!

 

[Tiny Spark]

I got asked to look at a guys new cooker which would not turn on.
Opened the top up and tested it to find the neutral had dissapeared for some reason.
Went back to the cooker switch took the cover off and the insides of the switch kind of sprung out!
So after working out how this prehistoric dinosaur of a switch went together and finding out this had happened to the guy who installed it I worked out part of the neutral link was missing!
Client replies "Oh yeah I found that and wondered what it was" he then proceeds to pull it out of his tat draw!

Put it back in and fault rectified.

 

[dan86]

I got a call to one of my customers mothers house who had just had a new kitchen fitted, and now her shower didnt work.

All MCB's in the on position.............the breaker for the shower had actually been installed upside down, so when it was what she thought was the on position, it was actually off !! I dont know why the fitters were in her consumer unit, or why they turned her breaker upside down !!

just a call out charge for that then?!

 

[murrayjones11]

I snore loudly

 

[Kate]

I snore loudly

What?!?! That made me chuckle with how random it was!!

 

[Silly Sausage]

I post on internet forums.

 

[dan86]

is that you're 'fault' Archy?!

 

[sajeel]

Mouse in db unit

 

[Chris sparky]

Nice!
I've found one of the critters in an old db before

I guess he forgot to..."miceolate" the supply before entering.


I'm sorry. Coat please

 

[Matth]

just a call out charge for that then?!

LOL, I had some other things to do, so I didnt charge them..............thats how nice I am !!

 

[Rampantchilli]

Ok so I went to an emergency call as the tenant had stated she was getting a shock from the shower. My employer doesn't really give much time for this kind of work, and doesn't pay OT, so arrived at 3.30. Carried out the normal tests on the shower circuit and found nothing wrong. Apparently this lady had had 3 shocks, the last one she said to herself I'd better be quick and carried on, lol
so I isolated the shower, and returned the next day.
all IR readings were good, well over 100M, except for upstairs lighting, which was incorrectly labelled as smoke detectors, the IR reading was .86m at 230v. Lighting was not Rcd protected, but shower, sockets and cooker were.
all circuits in the bathroom were bonded as per 16th
carried out a full EICR, and found the only one fault, the bathroom 16w 2d fitting was connected wrong, across L-E, I'm guessing that the shock was caused by the light fitting, passing current down the earth to the pipe work then on through the water and once the drains were wet, the lady got a small shock.
I reconnected the light, obviously, and did additional supp bonding in bathroom and to shower circuit,. The tenant hasn't had another shock since.

 

[Anthony King]

This was quite a good one today, rcd tripping, damp in the walls had just destroyed the back box and the cables in the wall, thats all that was left of it

 

[ash_s3]

Just nick an extra switched line out of the 3 core for some wall lights!

 

[KAS1]

Is that the cpc with red sleeving also I'd of thought they would of used a wago lol