Had an interesting call last night

[Spazz]

I priced up a CU change only 2 months ago from old BS3036 rewirable to a new 17th Ed board.
I quoted £250 (now £325)

He never came back to me - I had a call last night at 9pm - he came back from Tesco to find his electric cupboard in flames! I tolded him to pull the main fuse and get on the phone to 999 - I arrived to find Fire Brigade there putting the fire out.

When I went in with the fire inspector we found a new 17th ed board - B&Q £50 job.
No stickers, no nothing!

Asked the home owner who installed it? - no answer
Did you install it? - Yes

When we pulled what was left of the cover off - we found that the main L&N had fused together (dont know why the main fuse didn't break)

Fire Officer has now refured this to LABC.


I think he has learned not to do the job himself!

The scary thing is we also found out last night that he has also installed a few more CUs around the place for family members - GOOD LUCK

 

[Knobhead]

This gets more fanciful as it goes on!

 

[Plonker 3]

Is this Nic?

 

[Dave 85]

Theres a few contradictions coming from you here nic I'd love to hear you explain them....

Page 1: "he came back from Tesco to find his electric cupboard in flames!"

Page 4: "As said above endless times - I dont think it actually caught fire - just alot of heat and smoke -impression of fire."

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Page 1: "When I went in with the fire inspector we found a new 17th ed board"

Page 2: "No inspector came as it was such a small fire"

Page 2: "I didn't know where the main fuse was"

Page 4: "when he called I knew where his CU was in house and where the DNO head was"

Page 1: "we found that the main L&N had fused together"
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Page 4: "The L&N where not directly connected"

Midnight: "Im an going to call this a night!"
1 AM: "St John is nothing like a Paramedic!
They are Fist Aiders, the differe...blah blah blah blah etc etc lies nonsense more lies etc etc"

As a wise man said to me yesterday....."Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself"

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[1shortcircuit]

All I can add to this thread is... IF, and I hope I never do, I get a call explaining that a consumer can smell or see evidence of burning at the consumer unit I would advise they dial 999 and get to a safe distance away from the fire.

I don't know what these Gas meters are set to withstand in the case of a fire but I have seen many right next to consumer units/services heads in the same cupboard.

What started of as an interesting thread has turned into a cover up of the big picture and not as I was expecting a Promotion of Part P.

It's a shame the thread turned out this way but at least nobody was injured, well not physically anyway:thumbsup

 

[Octopus]

Time to get my coat...... I'm out of here

 

[growler]

i reckon the op had done the guy a cu change and THAT caught fire !!

 

[Hiddo]

I might read this fairytale to my kids before bed tomorrow.

 

[DurhamSparky]

lads lads lads...! give the chap a break...!! there may be some very contradicting info in this thread but unless you were physically there we can't judge any one...!

sat behind a keyboard imagining what you thought might have happened is one thing but been on site is another!

PHOTOS would however been taken regardless just for the comedy value that some monkey had burnt his house down....!! we all been there before aint we..! nope.. JUST ME THEN


one point i will make though...

FIRE SERVICE SPRAY FOAM AT EVERY THING ON FIRE IN A HOUSE...! regardless of live or dead...! they do carry Co2 but the hose reel comes out! (during my fire-fighter training i was taught exactly the same thing!) just don't point it at Switchgear or HV stuff..!

 

[trev]

Nicholas, bad news mate. I spoke to Keith earlier, the ball is now rolling and it'll stop when it stops of it's own accord. Best warn your man to get his iron underpants on because there's going to be a butt kicking party by the sound of it.
The sad thing is, depending on which way you look at it, is someone could lose their job

 

[robsparky1975]

Personally i would feel obliged to take pics and show elecsa/niceic and ask them to use our money to good effect as joe public dont know or give a ---- about part p,the only ones that suffer are the actual electricians!!!by having to pay to er...why cant this country do as others,licensed like the US/OZ.It would be so much easier but then it may put the part p brigade out of work and we wouldnt want that.

 

[Dave 85]

Personally i would feel obliged to take pics and show elecsa/niceic and ask them to use our money to good effect as joe public dont know or give a ---- about part p,the only ones that suffer are the actual electricians!!!by having to pay to er...why cant this country do as others,licensed like the US/OZ.It would be so much easier but then it may put the part p brigade out of work and we wouldnt want that.

Hey man...leave ranting about part P for other threads.
This thread is purely for light hearted entertainment.

 

[trev]

Hey man...leave ranting about part P for other threads.
This thread is purely for light hearted entertainment.

There's a guy in the fire service who aint going to find it entertaining Dave

 

[Dave 85]

lads lads lads...! give the chap a break...!! there may be some very contradicting info in this thread but unless you were physically there we can't judge any one...!

sat behind a keyboard imagining what you thought might have happened is one thing but been on site is another!

PHOTOS would however been taken regardless just for the comedy value that some monkey had burnt his house down....!! we all been there before aint we..! nope.. JUST ME THEN


one point i will make though...

FIRE SERVICE THROUGH FOAM AT EVERY THING ON FIRE IN A HOUSE...! regardless of live or dead...! they do carry Co2 but the hose reel comes out! (during my fire-fighter training i was taught exactly the same thing!) just don't point it at Switchgear or HV stuff..!

Aye but it wern't on fire...just a lot of heat...hang on..... it was...no wait.....it wasn't......well....depends what page you're reading, I think the OP has alzheimers

 

[Dave 85]

There's a guy in the fire service who aint going to find it entertaining Dave

I think you've taken this too far Trev...what if the guy does actually lose his job and it turns out the whole thing was made up after all....not your fault I know, you're trying to do the right thing but Im a bit worried

 

[trev]

Dave I've not taken this anywhere mate, Keith came round to talk to my son about this season and read over my shoulder while he was talking to me. I'm trying to stop it since it's been explained (kind of) but sadly questions have been asked at a higher level and you know what that's like sometimes

 

[DurhamSparky]

If it never happened how can any one loose a job???

 

[trev]

If it did and there were procedural errors then someone has lost a job, a livelyhood and a pension

 

[timbobelfast]

Best to leave the story writing to the novelists.........

 

[Deleted member 9648]

May not be entirely relevant,but a while back I was called to a local school to find the place evacuated and 3 fire applilances attending.(Scary as we do all the electrics there).....I was asked to accompany the fireman into the school as they suspected an electrical 'fire'. There was no smoke,but an appalling stink.....a few seconds with their heat detector was all it needed to find a red hot choke in a flu. So fire fighters will allow an electrician into a potential fire situation in some circumstances....Edit....(possibly in this case because I was the only one present who knew where to isolate the supply)

 

[MKS]

Danny Kaye has a lot to answer for including his other ego HCA

 

[Spudnik]

​I think we are done here.