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I wasn’t going to admit to anything, but I thought this recent incident just shows the importance of turning things off.
Saturday morning past, doing a little job for a friend. Old immersion switch, but no tank. Boiler has been installed elsewhere… so there’s a switch in the airing cupboard doing nothing.
I unscrewed the faceplate to pull it forward so I could test it…. No labels on the old CU.
Put my fingers over the plate to grip it and Ooooooya!
the flex was still connected but just cut off, and as the switch was on, there was power going to the cut end of flex…. As it had been for the so many years before whenever the hot water tank was taken out.
Lesson learned. Never trust a plumber to finish a job.
I wasn’t going to admit to anything, but I thought this recent incident just shows the importance of turning things off.
Saturday morning past, doing a little job for a friend. Old immersion switch, but no tank. Boiler has been installed elsewhere… so there’s a switch in the airing cupboard doing nothing.
I unscrewed the faceplate to pull it forward so I could test it…. No labels on the old CU.
Put my fingers over the plate to grip it and Ooooooya!
the flex was still connected but just cut off, and as the switch was on, there was power going to the cut end of flex…. As it had been for the so many years before whenever the hot water tank was taken out.
Lesson learned. Never trust a plumber to finish a job.
