Tell us about your faults!

[kung]

Hi ALL
Just thought id put this one up for all those faults we find.
heres one to kick it off !
Domestic RCD tripped and wouldnt reset cause was a blown low energy light bulb.
There you go now for yours !

 

[linsaband]

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Hello all,

Had a strange one the other day, extension on large sprawling 60`s style house had power failure. MCB staying on fine but no power other end. Found cable was running through massive wasps nest behind facia board and they had destroyed the cable! Cant believe didnt trip the MCB tho!

 

[ICE]

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I got called to an elderly couples bungalow a few years back.

They said that an electrician put a new split load board in took his CASH and left saying that all was fine and they did not bother checking it before paying him.

Well to cut a long story short, the old board was wylex re-wirable after an inspection I found that it was only one of the 2 rings with 1 being the kitchen, it turned out that about 5 years ago the old boy put a ironing board hanger in the utility room and had gone straight through the cable in the wall, I explained to him about the RCD and earth leakage and all he said was "well, I'll be damned"

So I hacked the plaster off repaired the damage and charged him with a cup of tea and some biscuits...

I got his daughters house rewire on the strength of that...

 

[nickblake]

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Hello all,

Had a strange one the other day, extension on large sprawling 60`s style house had power failure. MCB staying on fine but no power other end. Found cable was running through massive wasps nest behind facia board and they had destroyed the cable! Cant believe didnt trip the MCB tho!

i bet that gave you a buzz when you found that

 

[Alynelec]

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Had this one today, DIY 10mm 8.5kw shower supply, they phoned up to ask if I could check and sign it off had no understanding of Part P and that not anyone can sign off others work. What do you think maybe the problems with it
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Really can't see what the problem is, lol. What a mess!

 

[nickblake]

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OH Lord its one of them , Fire waiting to happen , and with the old wooden backed dist board too , ive always been hard on them old boards but harder since a recent local fire where a mum and 2 boys lost their lives .

as for the shower what a numpty , so where is the over load protection i asume looking at the pic the henlys go to themeter and cut out fuse how would you fill that one in on the cert lol overload protective device a 1361 type 2 100 amp !! well could be !!

 

[Andyfm]

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At least they attempted to put a box on the circuit, I attended a fault about 7-8 years ago - a sizzling shower switch, I told her on the phone to pull the fuse of the supply to the shower at the mains and I`ll pop in later, she looked but she couldn`t find the right fuse to isolate it, OK I thought must have another fusebox tucked away out of sight.
I turned up, looked for the elusive box - nowhere to be seen
had a look at the cables and found that the shower cable had been connected straight into the henly block , No fuse , no RCD, nothing - except the 80 amp main fuse
Scary

Got a big rewire from that job though

 

[Ashley Williams]

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Me and my dad got a call off a friend who own a small corner shop. Saying that there is smoke coming out of his consumer unit and it smells. So got to the shop turned off the supply took the cover off to find a slug accross the main terminals. NICE

A

 

[TPES]

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Had a lady ring me up to say her bathroom downlights dont work, even with new lamps in.

The downlights fitted were LV, Non-fire rated MR16 lamps.

The lights was packed down tight with loft insulation.

 

[nickblake]

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A concerned land lord of a local curry house asked me to check some wiring that had been carried out by the tenants , i cant write down my words of what i said when i saw it but the pictures might give you an idea as they say pictures speak a 1000 words ,had no choice but to issue a danger notification and insist the place be closed down for a day or so to carry out remidial works and a full inspection ,think its going to open a large can of worms big worms

 

[Sintra]

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Looks like it needs ripping out and starting again.

What a mess god knows what you will find in the PIR.

 

[nickblake]

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Your not wrong there , back board is like paper so needs a new back board , all around the place there are broken sockets ,one of the indian staff had just got out of the staff room shower just above was an old batton lampholder all smashed nice eh , start to try and sort it out next monday , putting in a new TPN board ,new back board and all RCBO's on each circuit , im praying there are no major faults on the rest of the installation , as you can see from the pics theyve had one fire , even some of the cables that were melted are still in use arghhhh ill have my camera with me during the remidial works and PIR watch this space !!!

 

[mogga]

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nice phase order at the incoming head

 

[kung]

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A concerned land lord of a local curry house asked me to check some wiring that had been carried out by the tenants , i cant write down my words of what i said when i saw it but the pictures might give you an idea as they say pictures speak a 1000 words ,had no choice but to issue a danger notification and insist the place be closed down for a day or so to carry out remidial works and a full inspection ,think its going to open a large can of worms big worms

If that spider would have crawled up a bit the poor thing could have had a nasty accident

 

[kung]

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Your not wrong there , back board is like paper so needs a new back board , all around the place there are broken sockets ,one of the indian staff had just got out of the staff room shower just above was an old batton lampholder all smashed nice eh , start to try and sort it out next monday , putting in a new TPN board ,new back board and all RCBO's on each circuit , im praying there are no major faults on the rest of the installation , as you can see from the pics theyve had one fire , even some of the cables that were melted are still in use arghhhh ill have my camera with me during the remidial works and PIR watch this space !!!

What indian restaurant was this ? I only ask coz last week when i got home from the indian i found some bit of ceiling rose in my nan bread !

 

[nickblake]

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If that spider would have crawled up a bit the poor thing could have had a nasty accident [/QUOT if he had realised i think he may have vindaloo

 

[nickblake]

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What indian restaurant was this ? I only ask coz last week when i got home from the indian i found some bit of ceiling rose in my nan bread !

dont worry unless you were in wales , suppose your nan was light and fluffy then

 

[m25maintenance]

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A concerned land lord of a local curry house asked me to check some wiring that had been carried out by the tenants , i cant write down my words of what i said when i saw it but the pictures might give you an idea as they say pictures speak a 1000 words ,had no choice but to issue a danger notification and insist the place be closed down for a day or so to carry out remidial works and a full inspection ,think its going to open a large can of worms big worms

i done that installation b4 i went to specksavers

 

[Sintra]

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Your eyesight must be real bad even a blind person could do better.

 

[m25maintenance]

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Your eyesight must be real bad even a blind person could do better.

u must be dumb if u cant see ur reading a joke

 

[Phil]

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u must be dumb if u cant see ur reading a joke

i think you will find that sintra was Joking when he posted that,