Worst places to work.

[GBDamo]

I'd like to forward pubs.

I have been doing reactive maintenance in pubs for four months now and they are by far the worst.

Forty years of semi-professionals sinking their retirement pots into a pub has led to some of the most creative electrical installation.

Today I was sent to a lighting fault, dead short, where a previous electrician had stated the circuit needed rewiring.

The circuit consisted of five areas, ground floor, fed from a grid switch.

The first fitting in each area was found and dropped. In each case the loop out and subsequent fittings all tested fine by IR, +200MOhms @ 500V accross all conductors however the feeds from the grid switch all showed dead shorts accross all conductors!!

Mmmm, thought I.

Tested the feed from the RCBO to grid switch, all good IR.

Then noticed the clue, a random live out of the COM of one grid switch.

Pulled it, it's N&E out and sure enough all conductors dead shorts, all the rest of the faults cleared and lights back on.

Where's that PL off to? Toured the pub and found four EM lights out in the first floor flat. Dropped the lot to find a loop out of the last, or so I thought, one. Back down stairs under a fire escape was a fifth and yes...

Full of water.

Normally I'd do a tour for this kind of thing but but was thrown a bit of a curve ball by the fault being reported as "pool table, darboard and disco lights tripping fuse"

What a faff but well chuffed to find, replace the light and get it all up and running.

 

[buzzlightyear]

I bet I was a barrel of laughs working their .lol.

 

[GBDamo]

I bet I was a barrel of laughs working their .lol.

You'd think but to date only one free drink offered and that was the landlord who had had "useless" other sparks out to find why his sockets were tripping, i got lucky(?) and found a socket still full of dog pi55. Turned out his dog was using one socket as a urinal, offered us free drinks not to tell the brewery.

 

[littlespark]

When an apprentice, our company had the contract for chicken sheds. Stunk to high heaven, little peckers at your welly boots and chicken sh*t on all your tools.

 

[buzzlightyear]

offered us free drinks not to tell the brewery

now thats worth a free meal on the house ,and the bAR,

 

[davesparks]

Pubs and filthy houses are horrible to work in.

 

[ruston]

So are some chip shops and other food takeaways.

 

[ferg]

Commercial kitchens..... rarely well maintained and even more rarely not covered in grease.

 

[Strima]

I spent four days inspecting a pub a couple of months ago, put it this way I won’t be eating there...

 

[ruston]

I spent four days inspecting a pub a couple of months ago, put it this way I won’t be eating there...

Did it have an infestation of beer flies to top it off? I once worked in a cellar I shared with millions of the little fellows.

 

[Julie.]

Two come to mind:

Full teardown of the control system and replacement in the largest crematorium in Manchester!

Commissioning of a 11kv generator as part of a chp scheme in a huge abattoir in Northern Ireland - the access was through the main stun and dispatch areas

 

[ipf]

My old fella's 'favourite' has always been doing a job for a fortnight in a tripe factory.....he quite liked it before but has nearly puked every time he's seen the stuff for the last 60 years

 

[Pete999]

My sister in Law's Gaff with her stood behind me with a dustpan and brush. or mine come to think of it.

 

[Wilko]

I’m a pretty lucky guy, but nothing good ever happened to me in a loft, just saying.

 

[SparkyChick]

If you've never had the pleasure, the space under mobile homes can be lovely in all the worst ways, especially if you're looking for rodent damaged cables only to find the little blighters have been nibbling water pipes and you're crawling around in puddles with festering rodent poop in the middle of February.

 

[KennyKen]

Turbine Packages unless your 4ft Tall

 

[telectrix]

If you've never had the pleasure, the space under mobile homes can be lovely in all the worst ways, especially if you're looking for rodent damaged cables only to find the little blighters have been nibbling water pipes and you're crawling around in puddles with festering rodent poop in the middle of February.

i'm lucky there. i'm too fat to fit under there.