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Darkwood
Was given my job card to go fault/fix a cooker .... got to job was let in by carer for dear old lady and went about my work (replaced blown hob element), Everyone happy so i left - got back to base and was dragged in office accused of ----ing it off as the customer had called complaining i hadn't turned up and she had booked time off....
Half an hour arguing my corner even showed him the blown element i took out so he rang the customer to confirm details --- id only been given address of similar named next street and after enquiry it turned out at the same number on each street the names matched and out of sheer coincidence they both had rung in to different companies to have their cooker repaired..
I imagine the other company turned up to his job getting told he'd already been lol
Half an hour arguing my corner even showed him the blown element i took out so he rang the customer to confirm details --- id only been given address of similar named next street and after enquiry it turned out at the same number on each street the names matched and out of sheer coincidence they both had rung in to different companies to have their cooker repaired..
I imagine the other company turned up to his job getting told he'd already been lol
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Paul.M
^^^^^ lol I've done the same.
18 years old and the gaffer trusted me to do small installs, he drops me and the tools off at an address to put up a security light whilst he shoots off to do a quote. Just finished and I was setting the timer when a woman from down the road walked up and asked if I was from ******* company?
Yes lov, why do you ask?
"Because this is house number 46 and you should be at my house at number 64 putting that light in!"
Boss got the numbers wrong way around lol. The woman at 46 did not say a thing, just thought her landlord had just sent someone. Did'nt get paid for it btw.
18 years old and the gaffer trusted me to do small installs, he drops me and the tools off at an address to put up a security light whilst he shoots off to do a quote. Just finished and I was setting the timer when a woman from down the road walked up and asked if I was from ******* company?
Yes lov, why do you ask?
"Because this is house number 46 and you should be at my house at number 64 putting that light in!"
Boss got the numbers wrong way around lol. The woman at 46 did not say a thing, just thought her landlord had just sent someone. Did'nt get paid for it btw.
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johnboy6083
I remember a site visit from my NVQ assessor.
id installed a plant room full of pumps, panels ect. The bloke turned up and was impressed. I explained how the system worked (water feature display and filter pump system) and he then asked me to carry out some dead tests.
I linked L-E on one of the pumps, and couldn't get a reading at the terminals in the panel! I started flapping, checking tightness of terminals ect, when he said to me 'you've proved the isolator is doing its job'.
id only left the isolator off!
ive done lots if other stupid things too.
i once fabricated a very tricky set of bends& setsin 300mm heavy duty tray.
there was no room to use manufactured ones, and the measurements had to be perfect.
i fabbed it up, painted it, and it looked brilliant. I was pleased, and the older fellas were saying what a good job I'd done.
when I took it upto the top of the boiler stack to install it, I'd got one of the bends the wrong way around!!!!
i cut the tray at that point, refabbed a new flat bend & external 90degree bend the right way around and altered some joiners to bolt the two bits together!
It looked good, but took nearly twice as long as it should!!
id installed a plant room full of pumps, panels ect. The bloke turned up and was impressed. I explained how the system worked (water feature display and filter pump system) and he then asked me to carry out some dead tests.
I linked L-E on one of the pumps, and couldn't get a reading at the terminals in the panel! I started flapping, checking tightness of terminals ect, when he said to me 'you've proved the isolator is doing its job'.
id only left the isolator off!
ive done lots if other stupid things too.
i once fabricated a very tricky set of bends& setsin 300mm heavy duty tray.
there was no room to use manufactured ones, and the measurements had to be perfect.
i fabbed it up, painted it, and it looked brilliant. I was pleased, and the older fellas were saying what a good job I'd done.
when I took it upto the top of the boiler stack to install it, I'd got one of the bends the wrong way around!!!!
i cut the tray at that point, refabbed a new flat bend & external 90degree bend the right way around and altered some joiners to bolt the two bits together!
It looked good, but took nearly twice as long as it should!!
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here's mine. from this morning. been going to bond water at home for ages. up till now it's has a temp. bond in garage to the gas pipe. accessed the stop tap by cutting out a chunk of the cupboard back, then drilling hole through wall to put bonding cable in. bloody gas pipe buried under render. as you can see, muggings found it with SDS.
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kingeri
I must admit I've come very close to hitting gas pipes before, they have a habit of being present when you least expect them!
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When I was younger, much younger, I ironed a shirt for a Friday night on the ****. When I put it on and checked myself in the mirror, I'd realised that I'd missed the collar. having already put the ironing board away it occurred to me that the iron would still be hot enough to straighten up the said collar. So, because i was now rushing, without taking the shirt off I placed the iron onto the collar. Needless to say I didn't pull that night, mainly due to the red brown triangular burn on one side of my neck and having to explain it! Luckily i'd only done one side!!! ;-)
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Guest111
went to the farm and got collared about a new machine they'd bought and it had stopped working,the makers had said they'd send an engineer out but he hadn't been sent yet and they wanted it working.I rang the company and said if they were ok i,d take a look at it for them,they were more than happy naturally as it saved them sending their man out.Now I was on the phone with their man for an hour and all I had tool wise was a couple of drivers and a test lamp,so I set to and all the tests pointed to a faulty rope switch on the safety system,the guy on the phone told me to bypass it and they'd send me another to replace it with,not happy with this I told him to pop one in the post that day and the machine would stay out of use until it arrived.Realising that these units had block switches in them I thought I'd open it up and see if a spare block that we had would fit,I opened the switch and spotted the problem straight away,a wire was just resting on the terminal instead of being in it.If only I'd taken the switch to bits in the begining.
Doh... another classic again from me...
Board change the other day, but only got time to test and energise the circuits on one of the RCDs.
Doing the rest today, 4 simple radial circuits, all tested fine so connected to the MCBs and energised... Nothing... 5 minutes of messing about, but no voltage anywhere...
Oh yes, that's it, this is the board where I cut the busbar too short so had to get another one... Only thing is, it's still in the toolbag!
Board change the other day, but only got time to test and energise the circuits on one of the RCDs.
Doing the rest today, 4 simple radial circuits, all tested fine so connected to the MCBs and energised... Nothing... 5 minutes of messing about, but no voltage anywhere...
Oh yes, that's it, this is the board where I cut the busbar too short so had to get another one... Only thing is, it's still in the toolbag!
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Tiny Spark
My biggest blunder was a pretty bad one but taught me to pay attention to what I was doing while talking!
We were re-wiring condensor units on the roof and after doing a few I set my first ever apprentice to do the one next to me.
Anyways while doing this we had to mount new isolators with old colours going in and new colours out. (See where this is going?)
So anyways he asked me why the colors had changed and what would happen if you got em wrong.
So I explained to him and said to be v careful not to mix the blues and the blacks up etc etc.
Anyways job done, Breaker on back on the roof and turned the isolator POP!
********.....
And one first hand lesson as to what happens if you put the blues in the wrong terminal for the apprentice!
Thankfully it did no real damage other than to my pride as that was the first and last thing I ever blew up LOL
We were re-wiring condensor units on the roof and after doing a few I set my first ever apprentice to do the one next to me.
Anyways while doing this we had to mount new isolators with old colours going in and new colours out. (See where this is going?)
So anyways he asked me why the colors had changed and what would happen if you got em wrong.
So I explained to him and said to be v careful not to mix the blues and the blacks up etc etc.
Anyways job done, Breaker on back on the roof and turned the isolator POP!
********.....
And one first hand lesson as to what happens if you put the blues in the wrong terminal for the apprentice!
Thankfully it did no real damage other than to my pride as that was the first and last thing I ever blew up LOL
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not a disaster, but made me feel a complete idiot. plugged in MFT in socket as a start to read the R1+R2 values. got a reading of >22kohms. head scratching for 15 minutes then realised i'd not cross connected the conductors in the CU. DOH.
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Sintra
Done a stupid one today. As I am the company QS I like to check random readings that our testing guy has recorded.
Was testing RFC continuity on a few circuits in a db and writing down results to compare with his. On the third circuit I got an open circuit r1 so checked rn and r2 both open. Then I realised I was using one probe and a pencil instead of the second probe which was dangling round my ankles
Was testing RFC continuity on a few circuits in a db and writing down results to compare with his. On the third circuit I got an open circuit r1 so checked rn and r2 both open. Then I realised I was using one probe and a pencil instead of the second probe which was dangling round my ankles
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