Errrrr disgusting!!!!!! Nasty side of electrical work!

[sedgy34]

Was on 4 new houses last year one of the lads went in the NEW loft to find a box smelling a bit he opened it up and inside
was a hairy turd, think one of the builders had done it save going down to the site loo. :001_9898:

 

[DurhamSparky]

i once had a turd in the engine room on one of her Maj's Submarines..!! gently caught it with a nice clean rag and disposed of it in the bilge near the pump strainer..! it disolved and got flushed away...

another lad did a similar thing but packaged it up in a rag and bin bag, sent it forward for waste disposal and it got compressed and splurted out every where..!!

the engineering department got a telling off by the XO

 

[trev]

Whickham View is bad mate but did you ever have the pleasure of visiting the old fold? Or as I liked to call it, the land that time forgot.
A mate was working on the decent homes job on the opposite side of the road when a resident/inmate got upset by his mother, dragged her outside in her dressing gown and administered a severe beating (who in their right mind would beat up a parent) he ripped off the dressing gown so she was totally naked too. So my mate and a few lads chased him off and helped the woman back into the house. About 15 minutes later a convoy of cars sped on to the estate carrying a load of scumbags with baseball bats.
After making good their escape the lads were put on a different site.

 

[DurhamSparky]

nice... domestic violence was all the rage in Newcastle a few years ago!!

if you were born within the cry's of a bloke slapping his misuses about you could consider your self a proper geordie!!

me i am just a Yakker!!

 

[High Tower]

mmmmm nice Durham, was this before the navy potty trained you??

 

[DurhamSparky]

potty trained???

 

[High Tower]

potty trained???

Yes.......Ie taught you to use the perfectly good toilets provided for you, with running water and everything

 

[DurhamSparky]

yes i was trained, however on a sub you have neither perfectly good toilets with running water or any thing!

on watch bilge poo's were the best!

 

[jay sean]

A few years ago we done the PIR test a 'pizza house' on the Leicester sq in London, we were there for three nights there were rats all over the place. The cockroaches knew when the staff had gone and used to come out of the woodwork.
It put me off pizzas to say the least

 

[Richard Burns]

One time guy came to me telling there was a dead rat in the plant, went over to under some shelves where they had moved stuff, yep rat dead in the corner. OK gloves on, pick up rat uhh, large pile of maggots dripping from it! Quickly bagged and burnt.

Also did a job clearing a warehouse were the owner had "gone bankrupt"; he had stored lots of stuff in there, really dangerous chemicals, wastes, and also a lot of specimens in jars, I do remember an eight legged pig foetus, try not to remember the rest.

 

[Inteificio]

Mine is nowhere near as bad as the above, but makes me laugh.

Was powering up a new laser.
Opening up the control box, although i could not find the carcass, gave the most wonderful smell of decomposing rat.
It was one of those that you could not see the wiring without sticking your head right in.

The bit that made me laugh is when we powered the laser up, the whole factory stank as the carcass was slowly cooked.

Nothing too see, but the images in my mind were not pleasant.

 

[Nik_lamb]

Was working on a lamp column once, I was having trouble getting the door off.... after a while fighting with the door the thing finally gave and to my horror about a million EARWIGS!! landed in my lap!Cheers!!........ I though Took ages to get them all off! Lol

 

[Des 56]

Just last week,I fitted a control box at the entrance to a property,it was one of those jobs that took time
Rawl bolted to wall,swa to terminate and control cables to play with

Opposite the path where I stood was some bushes and a sewer pipe/manhole

It was one of them that you often come across that looks Ok but stinks really bad
I have a good stomach for filth usually,but after a few minutes, the rank stink had me sucking air through the mouth to try and cope,ugh
No dead rats because they would have refused to put up with the filth

 

[Andy B]

Water dripping in mouth from a fridge in a mortuary.
Pigeon ****ting in my mouth.
Buying a cooked chicken at lunch time from a burger van, finding it still had its head on.
Hypodermic needles falling on my head after taking down light.
Repairing lights in undercroft in 2 foot of water and discovering its sewage.
Call out to a flooded carpark find a fountain of sewage from about ten foot. The guy I was with puked.
Putting a kango through a sewage pipe and it filling up the trench then shovelling it out.
Putting in a ring main for electric heating in a flat with so much rubbish I couldn`t see over it in some rooms. Mounted one heater 4 foot of ground.
Working in old peoples home and an old lady running round naked screaming.
The list goes on.

 

[johnboy6083]

Water dripping in mouth from a fridge in a mortuary.
Pigeon ****ting in my mouth.
Buying a cooked chicken at lunch time from a burger van, finding it still had its head on.
Hypodermic needles falling on my head after taking down light.
Repairing lights in undercroft in 2 foot of water and discovering its sewage.
Call out to a flooded carpark find a fountain of sewage from about ten foot. The guy I was with puked.
Putting a kango through a sewage pipe and it filling up the trench then shovelling it out.
Putting in a ring main for electric heating in a flat with so much rubbish I couldn`t see over it in some rooms. Mounted one heater 4 foot of ground.
Working in old peoples home and an old lady running round naked screaming.
The list goes on.

you sound like a glutten for punshment

 

[Guest111]

Once worked in a house and the woman was a relative of the boss,stood chatting and drinking a tin of strong lager whilst chatting to us as we worked,next thing was she p****d her pants and just carried on chatting like nothing had happened,other weird one same area went to house and on back of a door was the standard picture of Bob Marley,you know the one with a big joint in his mouth.Anyway I passed a comment on this and after a bit of rummaging in a drawer the young lady rang her boyfriend and started to swear at him down the phone,when she had finished I casually enquired if there was a problem to which she replied "yes I was going to roll us a joint each but that greedy so and so smoked it all and we only bought it last night".Must have been standard practice to give everybody a joint rather than a drink in their house.

 

[Nik_lamb]

Working in ex-squats is never fun.....

 

[Nik_lamb]

Always a needle where you lest expect it. Intake cupboards are a junkies fave!

 

[maffa ent]

we worked a fair bit on wter treatment works for a while, and was tightening a nut n bolt above inlet channel. my mate joked " ha don't drop your spa........." just as i did! i watched in horror as the spanner shaped indent in the river of ****e gradually disappeared towards the works, but there was no way i was trying to get it back! and i HATE losing tools!

 

[dwardy]

had a lovely job of re-lamping all 5 floors of a local multi story carpark. went back to my van at lunchtime to find a dead pigeon on my windscreen. put me right off my lunch as the underneath was missing

 

[High Tower]

had a lovely job of re-lamping all 5 floors of a local multi story carpark. went back to my van at lunchtime to find a dead pigeon on my windscreen. put me right off my lunch as the underneath was missing

What, the underneath of your sandwich??, where had it gone??, had Zombie pigeon eaten it??

 

[Guitarist]

had a lovely job of re-lamping all 5 floors of a local multi story carpark. went back to my van at lunchtime to find a dead pigeon on my windscreen. put me right off my lunch as the underneath was missing

You must have really upset someone for them to do that....

 

[ayjay]

working in the loft of an old estate gatehouse,2 old guys lived there
i noticed a hole through the loft insulation across the other side ,with bits of paper around it, i thought to myself "maybye theres some bank notes/money hidden there, so i crawled across and pulled back the insulation
lo and behold, about 4 ancient mouse nibbled -----mags-a vibrator-and a half used tube of ky gel- of course i took the mags home ,but not the other 2 items

 

[clicon357]

Worked at a BIG, POSH hotel in west London. 28 floor tower with low level "wings" coming off it. Perimeter lights etc on the wings shining down to illuminate the grounds etc, access cradles for cleaning the windows and so on. The low level wings were LITTERED with jaz mags, KY tubes, condoms etc plus TV remotes, paperbacks, empty miniatures and the big old style telephone directories. We used to refuse to work up there until it had been cleaned. My mate refused to go up unless he was wearing a hard hat. No laughing matter being hit by a used hypodermic or dildo dropped from the 28th floor! Turns out the hotel used to rent whole floors to the US Navy. They would be driven up on coaches from Southampton etc and go BERSERK in London for a few days. The local ladies of the night made a killing.

Then another job near London Bridge. We used to know it a Dogs**t House. The live in caretaker had a flat on the top floor and kept an alsation and jack russell. He used to exercise them on the roof and they'd cr@p and pi$$ everywhere. Again we refused to work until it was cleaned up. His SOLUTION was to double up a couple of bin bags and dot them around the roof. Of course they eventually became too heavy to lift so you had these sh!t statues that just got bigger and bigger over the years!

Brandon Estate? Kids ripping the temporary covers off the lift shafts and emptying bin bags down on us! Roundshaw Estates in Wallington - they used to throw USED nappies at us!

Another place in Cambridge, the caretaker lived on the grounds and would escort us through the building, up into the lift motor room and then out onto the roof. All the time he'd be watching us like a hawk and would keep checking up on us. It was pouring one day so we sat with a flask in the lift motor room. Found his scotch and **** stash! Seems he's tell his missus he was "just doing my nightly checks Dear!" and dive off for a quick one on the roof. Think I've still got a copy of Fiesta from there! Funny, he never mentioned it - always like to think it might have been his favourite mag!

Anyway, I'm off to join the US Navy! :smile5:

 

[ayjay]

exellant clicon and all the other posters--------------------------------
i subbyed on some council house rewires , well- theres always the last few "difficult" houses left at the end that no one wants to go into-
so-- we teamed up with anoter pair of sparkies to rewireone of the problem houses on a saturday-- we reckoned we could finish it in a day, all 4 of us--
when we went in,it bloody stunk, dog crap everywhere
the bedroom smelt terrible but we couldn,t find where the stink was coming from-
turned out the girl who lived there was putting her used tampons into the airing cupboard, behind the h/w cylinder-- (perhaps she was drying them out to use them again!

 

[Admin]

Thought I'd bump this bad boy.

 

[Rpa07]

That IS a bad boy - not sure if I wish to immerse myself (I've just had a bath)!

 

[telectrix]

That IS a bad boy - not sure if I wish to immerse myself (I've just had a bath)!

how come? it's not xmas yet, despite all the hype in the shops.

 

[Rpa07]

Twice a year for me - lead up to Christmas. I always think of it as a pre-soak.
Mondays off as always work Saturdays in nursery upgrade (no kids to climb up your ladder or drop tools on!) turns into admin day so win win

 

[sparkdog]

Got bitten,stung or scratched in an attic space recently. There was a little red mark on the side of my knee and over the next few days it got itchy and bigger and started oozing. Had to go and see the Doc, turned out it was impetigo and I was put on a large dose of antibiotics for over a week.

 

[Pete999]

For you blokes that do rewires, you know how you have lifted the floor board you need up and you can't quite stretch far enough to get the cable that has bee poked up, and you have tried fishing it with wire coat hanger, so you try and reach that bit further and your hand that isn't under the floor touches something nasty, well it happened to me once the thing I touched was a Ladies thing and it was fresh, put me off for a while, but not too long.

 

[sunray]

1) As an apprentice in 1972 I went into a house to fit a phone. It smelt horrible but the front room, where we had to work, looked ok. All we had to do was run a cable along the skirting behind the sofa, we pulled the sofa out and the dof poo filled the space to about a foot high. We just left without a word, leaving the sofa in the middle of the room.
2) Lifting the lid of a pavement joint box it was full of sewage, we pumped it out into a nearby sewer and pressure washed it. As we were working more ran in intermittantly. About 10 ft from the box was a fairly new patch in the asphalt and digging it up revealed a new 110mm foul pipe plumbed (very badly) into our P.O.duct
3) Working on sound and lighting in night clubs we never put our hand into any void without a marigold AND a leather glove, there would be all sorts of animals and and their s**t, used condoms, needles, stash, human s**t, s**tty knickers/pants etc. In one we took out 4 12ft bench seats against the wall and promptly asked for the debris to be cleared before we worked on the plethora of damaged cables. The guy went to the local toot shop for a cheap pack of 50 black bags. Big mistake as he really needed more than 50 and as he handled them the needles & blades were shreading the bags, he ended up with a trail of the offensive mixture through the building. The seating area was then washed with loads of disinfectant before we repaired the chewed cables.
4) Changing a temp sensor in a an extract air duct a horrible yellow/brown liquid poured out. this was above head height and is covered my hair, face and shirt. The grill was set in the floor of the toilet above (used to be a fairly common technique) and the pan connector had a big split to the soil was leaking directly into the duct.
5) Working inside the extract duct and the drain of an offices kitchen feeding about 1000 people daily. Loadsa fat!

 

[sunray]

Actually thinking about this a bit more;
Using the toilets on a big building site, especially on a Monday morning after a weekend of lager and kebabs

 

[sunray]

Actually thinking about this a bit more;
Using the toilets on a big building site, especially on a Monday morning after a weekend of lager and kebabs

 

[FatAlan]

Not electrician related but 25 years ago I had cause to visit a house. As I entered the hallway my shoes started sticking to the carpet. There was an unbearable ammonia type stench of urine which stopped me breathing in properly.There were Two very friendly staffies wondering around amongst a number of their old turds also on the floor. There was a baby in a high chair eating a piece of bread which fell onto the floor. One of the dogs had a quick lick before the mother rescued it and gave it back to the baby. One thing you could say now, is that baby probably had one fantastically primed immune system.