- Reaction score
- 3,010
Four jobs on a grand tour.
1, "A live cable is sparking on a roller door" gets to site and sure enough there is a live cable touching a roller door and sparking. Someone had removed a loght and just slung the cable over some trunkig and left it.
This cable was 30" long and plugged into a clik rose. Whichever tool who thought he was competent enough to remove this light could not even work out how to unplug it first.
2, lighting circuit tripping, open DB and three circuits in one MCB, pull them out and all three dead short live-earth, eh.....start looking to identify each circuit, continuity between all three circuits.
Went into loft and found three live cut cables in amongst the lagging traced them back and disconnected them...and..still dead short.
Disconneted the outside lights which tested good so the faul is inside.
Four hours later had to leave, needs rewiring. Reckon it'd do it quicker that finding this one.
3, to inane to discuss but now 17:00
Call, can you get to a job five hour round trip..fuming.
4, Arrived at site to the landlord livid, already had three sparks out to find this fault, two left as there was no fault, the third replaced a socket. Apparently they dont know what they're doing blah blah.
Opened the socket, wet...yellow, smelly.
Yep, dog pi55es on this socket, only this socket every other time it has dried before the spark arrivied, this time it was still wet.
The look on the gobby landlords face was a picture, oh how I laughed.
Dried the back box, stuck a new socket on all good.
1, "A live cable is sparking on a roller door" gets to site and sure enough there is a live cable touching a roller door and sparking. Someone had removed a loght and just slung the cable over some trunkig and left it.
This cable was 30" long and plugged into a clik rose. Whichever tool who thought he was competent enough to remove this light could not even work out how to unplug it first.
2, lighting circuit tripping, open DB and three circuits in one MCB, pull them out and all three dead short live-earth, eh.....start looking to identify each circuit, continuity between all three circuits.
Went into loft and found three live cut cables in amongst the lagging traced them back and disconnected them...and..still dead short.
Disconneted the outside lights which tested good so the faul is inside.
Four hours later had to leave, needs rewiring. Reckon it'd do it quicker that finding this one.
3, to inane to discuss but now 17:00
Call, can you get to a job five hour round trip..fuming.
4, Arrived at site to the landlord livid, already had three sparks out to find this fault, two left as there was no fault, the third replaced a socket. Apparently they dont know what they're doing blah blah.
Opened the socket, wet...yellow, smelly.
Yep, dog pi55es on this socket, only this socket every other time it has dried before the spark arrivied, this time it was still wet.
The look on the gobby landlords face was a picture, oh how I laughed.
Dried the back box, stuck a new socket on all good.