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did any of yous ever have days just after you’ve qualified when your doing a simple job but you encounter a slight wee problem and it just snow balls and you’re close to giving up after it’s done lol! Had one a those days
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Often!
Most jobs are never as simple and quick as you hope!
I still have them days sometimes, I've just learnt not to let it get the better of me. Best to rest and go back with a clear headwent home feeling absolutely deflated
I still have them days sometimes, I've just learnt not to let it get the better of me. Best to rest and go back with a clear head
Many. Sounds like you’ll learn something from it though. You tend to learn more and quicker when things don’t go to plan.
Tomorrow is another day, onwards and upwards!went home feeling absolutely deflated
Seems that no one else is going to ask, so I'll do it..
What was the slight wee problem that snowballed?
changing 2 outside lights over, couldn’t get one to come on. Couldn’t get one to work right, eventually got it. Then went to change a socket over, was an old socket and the back box snapped, couldn’t find a replacement one in van so had to use a metal back box with the plastic socket face. Ended up taking about 2 hours for the whole job
I'm going to guess the first issue was trivial, but you couldn't see the problem as you were looking for something more complex?
Common or switched live in wrong terminal and what appeared to be "on" position was actually off?
Anyone who says they've never had one is lying or has never done the job.did any of yous ever have days just after you’ve qualified when your doing a simple job but you encounter a slight wee problem and it just snow balls and you’re close to giving up after it’s done lol! Had one a those days
changing 2 outside lights over, couldn’t get one to come on. Couldn’t get one to work right, eventually got it. Then went to change a socket over, was an old socket and the back box snapped, couldn’t find a replacement one in van so had to use a metal back box with the plastic socket face. Ended up taking about 2 hours for the whole job
I had one bad day about 20 years ago and nothing before and nothing since has come remotely close to that one. We had to take a 1/2 in coax cable from the roof of a building down to the basement 18 floors below and then through the basement to the main computer suite but it could only be done after 6pm, all was going well I was feeding the cable at the roof and the lad working with me was routing it down the riser at the ground floor he radioed me to tell me there was a sprinkling of water coming down the riser and it was getting worse and worse it got something like 50 - 60,000 litres of water flowed before it was stopped, a pipe had sheared and ran at full bore for an hour or so
The end result was 5 passenger lifts were put out of action along with the basement post room and there was water damage to the first and ground floors didn't sleep too well that night wondering how to explain what happened. In the end we escaped the fall out as the company who were contracted to replace the rotten pipework had not replaced every pipe they should have and the blame was placed with them we dodged the bullet that day but anytime things are going wrong that job reminds me how wrong it can go. Had to go back to that job a few years later to do some mods and was asked not to do it again
So I flooded the AA's HQ and it was somebody else's fault but for a number of hours I was panicing it was my fault even after all these years there are a few people who remind me of it strange how they never remember all the other job's
Presumably you are going back to replace the metal box with a plastic one, or is it a metal surface box and the customer is happy with it?
As per @westward10 you need to take a step back and get a little perspective, that's hardly a day from hell in the big scheme of things.
Just wait until you accidentally set off a fire alarm 3 times in a week evacuating a busy building, have the local fire chief give you a rollicking by the end of it and pick up a few £k bill for the privilege.
my day from hell is about to start, old wylex CU with 3871's, back of bottom of corner cupboard in kitchen. all sockets on a 30A, random tripping of MCB. did a few basic tests yesterday without being able to access the CU. Nothing appeared abnormal. testing at a socket L-N and L-E both > 9999 ohms, but L-E and N-E both 0.02 Meg. obviously the IR readings are misleading with circuits still connected in CU. replaced MCB with a 60898 as the original was intermittent resetting even with power isolated, took 3 or 4 presses to get it to stay in,and it was a 2 minute job. cakll last night, still randomly tripping but holds when reset. back today to strip out the cupboard, remove shelf so can access and diss. then some sensible testing.. split ring and track it down. could be simply an intermittent short in a back box (I hope) or maybe rodent damage entailing floors up etc. btw. no RCD on installation. Zs readings all sensible ranging from 0.22 ohms to 0.45 ohms. let you know what i find later.
my day from hell is about to start, old wylex CU with 3871's, back of bottom of corner cupboard in kitchen. all sockets on a 30A, random tripping of MCB. did a few basic tests yesterday without being able to access the CU. Nothing appeared abnormal. testing at a socket L-N and L-E both > 9999 ohms, but L-E and N-E both 0.02 Meg. obviously the IR readings are misleading with circuits still connected in CU. replaced MCB with a 60898 as the original was intermittent resetting even with power isolated, took 3 or 4 presses to get it to stay in,and it was a 2 minute job. cakll last night, still randomly tripping but holds when reset. back today to strip out the cupboard, remove shelf so can access and diss. then some sensible testing.. split ring and track it down. could be simply an intermittent short in a back box (I hope) or maybe rodent damage entailing floors up etc. btw. no RCD on installation. Zs readings all sensible ranging from 0.22 ohms to 0.45 ohms. let you know what i find later.
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