When the brown hits the fan - Worst bloopers

[highspark]

Whats the worst bloopers you have done in regards to customers possessions.I've done many but probably the worst was when I was sent to look at an alarm. Got up to the bellbox un-screwed it then casually placed it hanging on the leg of the ladder...Gust of wind ....smash..... damn that isn't good. Couldn't get a direct replacement (none the same shape) so had to replace the whole bellbox.

 

[Spudnik]

I connected a WB combi boiler the wrong way round.


BANG!!!

Thankfully, the 3A fuse popped before anything on the boiler!!!

Luckily, customer not present

 

[Guest111]

worst one for me was a kwik save in the north east, anyway we were ripping out all the concession shops to make the store bigger you remember them,little butcher, grocer that type of thing well I never throw anything away if it,s any good so I took the alarmbox off and there was a black box attached that I thought may be handy so I cut the cables and put it straight in my van,5 mins later door flies open and in run these 2 coppers.turns out the place had a history of being held up so the police had put a radiolink in to try and catch the thieves,but the store manager had forgot about it so when I ripped it out they thought it was a robbery,anyway at least he got his box back as it had gone in my van and not in the skip.

 

[PB1]

I made a stupid mistake on my own house rewire that I only found out last weekend. The rewire had been done over quite a long period working around other trades and waiting for various walls to be boarded etc, so I was relieved when I'd got the final long run of cable in for the kitchen socket circuit back to the consumer unit. Last weekend I finally got round to connecting up the last two kitchen sockets, got to the last cable and thought, funny this seems quite flexible. Started to strip it and noticed grey, black brown. Went to the other end of the house to the consumer unit to check the other end of the cable waiting to be connected and realised I'd used 1.5mm 3core T&E instead of 2.5mm. FFS.
Luckily the plasterer hadn't been able to get to plaster the boards that the cable was behind, nor had the carpet fitter been yet. Phew. It only took a couple of hours to replace it and I learned a valuable lesson - read the label - twice at least, and check the end of the cable before you start!

 

[Dcf]

I wired a load of ac3 air curtain heaters in the local cinema.all concealed cabling,severe phase imbalance sorted out I am a prem league sparks me.
tested the circuits fired them up work fine. 10 min later a fire alarm message to evacuate comes over the pa system.wtf is going on.8 fire engines later and about 20 firemen roll in .the oil coating on the elements on one heater had blown into a detector resulting in me evacuating 7 cinemas.

 

[trev]

I accidentally meggered the big boss when I was an apprentice. We were trying to get the new apprentice but the gaffer picked the cable up. Ooops

 

[highspark]

I made a stupid mistake on my own house rewire that I only found out last weekend. The rewire had been done over quite a long period working around other trades and waiting for various walls to be boarded etc, so I was relieved when I'd got the final long run of cable in for the kitchen socket circuit back to the consumer unit. Last weekend I finally got round to connecting up the last two kitchen sockets, got to the last cable and thought, funny this seems quite flexible. Started to strip it and noticed grey, black brown. Went to the other end of the house to the consumer unit to check the other end of the cable waiting to be connected and realised I'd used 1.5mm 3core T&E instead of 2.5mm. FFS.
Luckily the plasterer hadn't been able to get to plaster the boards that the cable was behind, nor had the carpet fitter been yet. Phew. It only took a couple of hours to replace it and I learned a valuable lesson - read the label - twice at least, and check the end of the cable before you start!

I did this on my first day as a trainee!

 

[Knobhead]

I wired a load of ac3 air curtain heaters in the local cinema.all concealed cabling,severe phase imbalance sorted out I am a prem league sparks me.
tested the circuits fired them up work fine. 10 min later a fire alarm message to evacuate comes over the pa system.wtf is going on.8 fire engines later and about 20 firemen roll in .the oil coating on the elements on one heater had blown into a detector resulting in me evacuating 7 cinemas.

Your trick with the cinema reminded me of this. One of the other strings to my bow was event (dis) organisation. We did a show in a Manchester nite club, the stage show was going without a hitch, until this!
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We forgot to cancel automatic response to a fire alarm. It’s a big club, minimum 5 engines to attend. I was given a sever ear bending by the fire officer and threatened with arrest.

Also had other run ins with the fire brigade at work, but their another story.
Auto fire alarms are great, but not when it’s a mistake on your part

 

[Paul.M]

Is this thread open to the public because its making us lot look like a right bunch of mupets LOL.

Engineer54 is first row, bottom left!






I'm going to get some stick for that one I think.

 

[Knobhead]

The Muppet show, that's a management meeting

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[Knobhead]

I thought you would have E54 and I as Statler and Waldorf

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[Paul.M]

Where am I then!

Well Tony my friend, after reading all your posts and getting to know you quite well by now only this pic would suit you

You asked

 

[Knobhead]

You're to slow, I changed the post!

 

[Knobhead]

But yes two fingers to convention about sums me up.
Thank you Paul.

 

[1shortcircuit]

This thread is hillairious

Makes my small incident seem really quite boring but I'll add it anyway as it was only last week.

Testing a "particular appliance" and caboooooom! Big flash right before my eyes... and the clients:yikes

"Well" I said... "Certainly not going to work now is it" lol I can't believe I managed to seem so calm and act as though it was something that happens all of the time. I was just hoping that the smell of my underpants was not going to be noticed.

I managed to bring all of the components away with me and they are safely stashed where they will never be found ever again lol

New "particular appliance" on order

:thumbsup

 

[a1guvner]

Ourselves and a gang of shop fitters decended on a shop in a busy high street to carry out a refit of their store, supervisor looked a bit confused but knew she had heard something about it in the recent weeks so signed everyone in and we were told to proceed, 1st alarm bell rings when it is noticed the stock had not been demerchandised from 1 side of the store (done in two phases) and then its even more worrying the foreman notices some discreppancies on the drawing that didnt match with the store we were in, DOH wrong shop, should of been over the road a few doors up,

Could of been very amusing if the strip out had of been done then noticing, why would they need two stores so close, :95: