Smelly houses

[monkeyelectric]

I had a call today from a guy that was sat watching tv last night and the rcd kept tripping but it was holding for about 5 minutes then tripping off, now it won't hold at all, he's narrowed it down to one of the 3 rings in the house, but they are not really split in a particular manor, the ring in question controls kitchen, half of upstairs, half of downstairs, low ir reading, r1+r2 176 ohms on ring in question, 1000ohms on another ring even though they shouldn't be connected! A right mess by the looks of it, i was there today an hour just to see if anything was obvious but after removing a few socket fronts i had to give up, the smell of dog **** and **** and the clag and general uncleanliness of the house was unbearable, i told him i'd go back tomorrow for a more thorough look but i don't know if i can face it, its minging! I don't know how people can live like this, i've just rang him and told him to give the electrician who wired it originally a call cos he knows of any junction boxes and such forth , what woukd you guys do? Have you been in such places?

 

[telectrix]

been there, done it, walked. can't blame you. no excuse for filth. let him get someone with a lesser sense of smell. probably end up by being dog pi$$ in a socket.

 

[Phil]

you want to try call outs to brothels or horse stables where it not only stinks of ---- but your always about 2 foot away from it yak.

 

[telectrix]

all depends on the stables. i have a regular client with stables, about 8 hosses, and they keep it tidy. OK, there's occasional hosss poops, but nature is nature. it's not inside a house.

 

[Phil]

been there, done it, walked. can't blame you. no excuse for filth. let him get someone with a lesser sense of smell. probably end up by being dog pi$$ in a socket.

 

[Phil]

all depends on the stables. i have a regular client with stables, about 8 horses, and they keep it tidy. OK, there's occasional hosss poops, but nature is nature. it's not inside a house.

true enough there I have been to a few but one was especially stinky and thats coming from me who has really bad sinuses

 

[monkeyelectric]

Farm yards are bad, especially dairy farms but nothing compared to this vile place of horribleness

 

[telectrix]

nice one.

 

[monkeyelectric]

Why can't i like anything anymore? The buttons have all disappeared

 

[telectrix]

it's when you post simultaneously. refresh the page by hitting f5 and the like buttons come back

 

[monkeyelectric]

Still not there,perhaps i've liked too many things

 

[SirKit Breaker]

Once had to remove a SFCU that had a fire surround lighting wired into to it, the house was a bit whiffy, usual BO, sweat, damp dog and stale smoke smoke. I knelt down on the carpet to remove the broken SFCU which took about 5 minutes or so, then i tried to stand up, but had great difficulty, because my knees were glued to the carpet with the build up of gunge on the floor, when i did manage to get up, my knees tore away from the carpet with the same sound that velcro makes when you rip it apart. I didnt see the state of the floor before i knelt down, the room was dingy and the carpet was dark colour, or if it wasnt meant to be it was now.

Never went back to do other work they asked me to quote.

Around about the same time, a builder called me to first fix a loft conversion, in a not very nice part of Leeds. When i got there, there was a waft of cooking bacon, the builder got to me before the homeowner, and told me to decline the forthcoming offer of a bacon sarnie. The offer did present itself, with a woman "alledgedly" who stunk to high heaven, matted hair, greyish yellow nightie, weighing in at about 25 stone, and very greasy grotty frying pan in hand. She had to be seen to be believed. I was physically sick in the front garden. I did the first fix in next to no time, and did the second fix a lot faster, and that reminds me, must go back to test and certify it soon, as its been nearly 10 years.

Cheers............Howard

 

[jedisparks]

I once sat in a dog **** around a customers house. I was re-wiring the place and it was filthy. The floor boards were stained dark brown. One day I sat on the floor so that I could comfortably cut in a double flush box. After a minute I thought "I can smell ****", stood up and there it was squashed on the floor where I had just been sitting, Very well camoflaged on the floor.

You know how messy a re-wire can be. This job was no exception but I left the place sparkling compared to when I started.

 

[Hiddo]

I got asked to quote for a cu and lighting rewire. When I arrived to have a look the front door opened and the smell nearly took my head off. They had dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs and budgies all in one room of a tiny terraced house, plus the owners didn't seem very hygienic to say the least. I had a (very quick) look and then emailed a quote that I thought would price me out of the job. Two weeks later the phone rang and the bloke congratulated me for winning the job!! I bought tons of Vick to stuff up my nose and cracked on with the job. I hated every minute of that one but there have been others since and they do make you work faster. Much faster.........

 

[diditrain]

I was in a house last week and the owner kept hens in the garage attached to the house. Have a guess which way i needed to run my MEB`s. The hens had the roam of the place aswell, they were not battery hens.
Breathed through my mouth throughout my time there.

 

[MNR]

Or the rcd tripping turns out there dog kept ****ing on the landing carpet so they took the carpet up. Dog done the same again went through gap in floor boards and straight through into the connections for smoke alarm.

But I didn't know it was dog **** untill I said there was water in the smoke alarm when they made me aware of the dog ****ing there so they took up the carpets.


Www.aeskent.co.uk

 

[applemac]

had a dirty one this week, refreshing to get the floor boards up for a change! heating on full makes the smell worse. minging people no excuse, going to start putting 30% into the quote of the next soap dodger!.

 

[SYKRAPS]

I got asked to quote for a cu and lighting rewire. When I arrived to have a look the front door opened and the smell nearly took my head off. They had dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs and budgies all in one room of a tiny terraced house, plus the owners didn't seem very hygienic to say the least. I had a (very quick) look and then emailed a quote that I thought would price me out of the job. Two weeks later the phone rang and the bloke congratulated me for winning the job!! I bought tons of Vick to stuff up my nose and cracked on with the job. I hated every minute of that one but there have been others since and they do make you work faster. Much faster.........

So you did the work faster and at an enhanced price.......winner winner chicken dinner

 

[LlandrilloSpark]

Been putting storage heaters in a north Wales care home, disgusting, dirty old place , grease and crap everywhere and rooms that stink of ****, got my cheque but won't be going back

 

[jumpin jax]

Went around a house to price kitchen and spare sockets, gave a price and was accepted. Kitchen fitter/carpenter, who gave the people my number, said when he first went round the house the chipboard floor in the bathroom was that rotten that the bath and toilet had dropped at least 2 inches down and there was a bucket next to the toilet. They would p*** and sh** in the bucket and then pour it down the toilet. I am really looking forward to this one.

 

[Doomed]

 

[trev]

Had to go in a house where the guys wife had died about 5 years earlier, he lived in one room as the others were filled with bin bags. He hadn't taken a single one out since she died, the place was disgusting. Needless to say the work didn't get done till the place was emptied and fumigated.