Unreasonable expectations and gardeners

[Deleted member 9648]

Did an EICR 18 months ago, this week an external pumped water system packed up. Connection cooked on an FCU. Apparently I should have picked it up on the EICR.....despite the fact that it's been working constantly for the last 18 months......Oh, and the gardener has said it must be on it's own circuit (it's currently fed perfectly satisfactorily off a local ring)….so why wasn't that picked up? The 'effin gardener said it's a regulation so it must be right.
Does anyone else find people think an EICR is a guarantee that nothing will go wrong for the next 1000 years and that the gardener knows more about electrics than the electrician?

 

[Midwest]

Perhaps he noticed it when he was out planting bulbs!

 

[Spoon]

Oh, and the gardener has said it must be on it's own circuit (it's currently fed perfectly satisfactorily off a local ring)….so why wasn't that picked up? The 'effin gardener said it's a regulation so it must be right.

Give the gardener your regs book and tell him to point out the reg.

 

[buzzlightyear]

What do bill from ben know .tell him the grass is always greener on the other side so there you will be buried.

 

[littlespark]

An EICR is like an MOT. A snapshot of the installation on a particular day.
Something could go wrong a week later and the report would still be valid.

 

[Deleted member 9648]

They did get an email this afternoon saying the installation is fully compliant but if they wish to take the gardeners advise on regulations I will be happy to install a new circuit for north of £300.
I haven't received a reply as yet.

 

[Midwest]

I've decided to employ a modern day Capability Brown to design my blank landscape rear garden of my new build.

I did have some troubling electrical questions about garden sheds, hot tubs & garden lighting. I was apprehensive on starting a thread on here and being ridiculed for my lack of knowledge.

I'll speak to Titchmarsh instead.

 

[rapparee]

I get men who can't even put strimming cord into a strimmer ridiculing my work.

Forklift drivers who are incapable of filling their own truck with gas who are in their heads qualified to slander my efforts.

I just try and shrug them off. Some times I bite. I always regret it when I do.

At the end of the day, I'm making more money than them, so if bad mouthing me gets them through their day, good luck to them. Nobody with any sense would listen to the fools anyway.

 

[Squid]

Why do you bother, just ask them if they like "travel and sex"

 

[Spoon]

I get men who can't even put strimming cord into a strimmer ridiculing my work.

Forklift drivers who are incapable of filling their own truck with gas who are in their heads qualified to slander my efforts.

I just try and shrug them off. Some times I bite. I always regret it when I do.

At the end of the day, I'm making more money than them, so if bad mouthing me gets them through their day, good luck to them. Nobody with any sense would listen to the fools anyway.

I always remember when a few of us got taken out for a meal by a happy customer. One of the mechanical guy said about me, "How come hes going? He only puts red-to-red and black-to-black...." My reply of "Well you only bolt metal together!" didn't go down well....