Kevin please change careers before killing someone

[captaincaveman]

Hi,
If you're a spark, you're reading this, your name is Kevin, you work in the Manchester area and you did a job in Rusholme yesterday on lights that kept tripping the RCD - Please reconsider your career before you do serious damage.
It's forgivable that you were unable to diagnose an insulation fault with the lights and blamed it on a faulty RCD (though the customer said you thought it was both RCDs which should have made you think again). I presume you don't have the right equipment for insulation & RCD testing?
It's also forgivable taking the lights off the RCD as a tempary measure.
What isn't forgivable is taking the 1.5mm lighting circuit with an insulation fault on it, taking it off the 6A breaker and putting it directly on the main ccu switch protected only by the suppliers 100A fuse! To compound matters you didn't even put it on the consumer side. Instead putting it on the supply side so when the customer was getting a firework display last night - they couldn't even isolate the electrics!!!
I don't know how much current was going through the light fitting but even the copper had disintergrated.
I seriously believe if I hadn't attended at 1am this morning there wouldn't be a house still standing.

 

[SparkyChick]

I'd like to like this post but it seems strangely wrong to attach a like to something so serious.

 

[telectrix]

I'd like to like this post but it seems strangely wrong to attach a like to something so serious.

it's good that there are still sparks out there responding to dangerous situations like the one in caveman's post. my hat off to OP for going out @ 1.00 a.m. and saving the situation.

 

[Andy78]

Get the customer to report this bugger to trading standards, HSE, anyone who'll listen. He'll only do it again next week.

 

[westward10]

Should consider himself lucky he is not explaining himself to a judge.

 

[Pete E]

Would anyone who has had the slightest training/experience of electrics do such a thing? The guy is reckless/negligent to the point of endangering life and property and really does deserve to be prosecuted....

 

[Squid]

The worst thing is leaving a known fault working with no protection.

How much did Kevin charge the client for the work as they should be chasing him for the money at least.

 

[Squid]

Let us know what the issue is as it would be interesting to know what failed and how it failed.

 

[Andy C]

Unbelievable and so sad. The possible consequences to not only the clients family but others if there had been a fire. The sparks family as well whilst he is in prison.

Why people do this sort of thing escapes me.

 

[GMES]

Get him reported before he kills himself or someone else, the customer must have his details, even if it was a cash job they must have a mobile for him which should be passed on to the authorities.
Did you get any pics for evidence.

 

[westward10]

I think most of us become less and less shocked by works carried out by supposed electricians these days, the whole trade needs enforced regulation like some overseas places.

 

[Pete999]

Can we see the post by KEVIN please

 

[telectrix]

Can we see the post by KEVIN please

kevin too busy feeding horse.

 

[Zdb]

Hopefully Kevin gets zapped on his next job and moves on to plumbing.

 

[Pete999]

The OP is Offline, maybe when he comes back he may give.

 

[Octopus]

No doubt the customer paid cash and has no idea where ""Kevin" came from, lives , etc.

Some people can be so stupid.

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

Well i suspect if somebody else phoned the cowboy and said they want some work doing he would appear like the cat in Alice in wonderland.

I would send rogue traders on the watchdog/BBC a link as they love a good story like this one. i would also contact local papers and name and shame him that way. He needs stopping. In this area last year trading standards got an injunction against a 'plumber come heating engineer' who was lucky not to have killed people when working on boilers. he is now not allowed to do such work as part of the court order.

 

[telectrix]

Hopefully Kevin gets zapped on his next job and moves on to plumbing.

only once the zap has fried his brains

 

[static zap]

Mmm Brains ,some fava beans and a nice chianti.

 

[Squid]

kevin too busy feeding horse.

You mean Kevinski

Can we see the post by KEVIN please