In your first couple of posts, it read like you were working on this installation as an electrician and found an apparently dangerous situation.
Then you post that it's not that dangerous, as only you had felt a shock.
Then this just gets bizarre, as you post that you were actually a hotel guest who stepped forward to save the day.
The hotel has 500 guests who are antsy because they can't use the pool. Saturday was forecast to be hot (IN SPAIN IN JULY!!!!!) and the contractors were not due on site until the Monday.
The MANAGER could get the electricians back, should be no problem, given you felt a shock in the wet area.
Or, you sort the problem for them. As you have no training, qualifications, verified experience or insurance the hotel would be at risk if your work led to you or somebody else being injured.
The 'entertainment staff' enthusiastically accepting your offer to help out and off you go, rigging up a cable using off-cuts and various glands that were lying around (full on BA Baracus).
Then you were able to carry out full tests as the electricians had left loads of test kit. I don't know any electrician who would leave test kit on site overnight, never mind for a weekend. I could easily replace a stolen screwdriver, but not my MFT. Also, I never know when I may get a call to an emergency over the weekend.
Finally, and this is the best bit. After you saving the weekend, the hotel give you a refund of 1400 euros. For 3 hours, that's an hourly rate of 467 euros. 3 years later, the hotel replaces the pool equipment and the only bit of wiring that survives is the cable you installed. The hotel is so grateful for your help, they are giving you an all-inclusive holiday for your family group. This offer would easily bring the hourly rate over 1000 euros. This at a time where hotels are struggling financially due to the pandemic.
If admit to being more than a bit skeptical about this post. I would say that if Winston posted any of theses claims he would be annihilated in here.
The electricians had not been involved on this part of the system, they had only been installing new cables on complety unconnected [as in not yet connected to supply] equipment, glands and cable offcuts were 'laying around', as were as yet unused hundreds of pounds worth of assorted parts in big piles of boxes, I dare say if I'd looked further I'd have found some whole glands in their packets.
The hotel staff had changed metal pipework to plastic, for maintenance reasons but prompted by preparation for connecting in the new plant. That was the point at which the hazzard became apparent.
The issue of not being able to get an electrician on call out was something I struggled to understand too but I don't know enough about the Spanish working lives.
Although I have little relevant qualifications I have lots of working experience, panels and plant room wiring had been my main day to day work for a good number of years so lots of quoteable experience for some major companies.
The tools and test kit belonged to the hotel and it was their staff did the testing, That's not to say I didn't use any of it but they were the ones who took the measurements and logged the readings. Yes I dare say my europe wide insurance would have been flakey in the situation. And as my posts indicate there were a couple of electrocutions shortly after which I have no hesitation in admitting scared me.
I'm sure the report of it being the only bit of cable left is an exaggeration, especially as most of it is hidden in trunking.
The hotel has something like 700 rooms so I dare say their capacity is in the order of 2000 people so one way of looking at it is it cost about 50p per guest for a weekend of satisfied customers.
Yep reading it all back does look horrible but not as horrible as the angry scenes, mostly by drunk Brits and loud Germans competing for attention.
Yep their struggling alright, so much so that they decided to take advantage of the low numbers by closing in mid September, a whole month and a half early and spent loads of money on the place. Seriously I don't know their financial status but they did close early to get on with renovations/repairs etc and certainly don't usually struggle to fill the rooms, they have regulars who've been going back since the 60's. We spoke to one family of 3 generations, he proposed from the stage, they had their wedding there and were celebrating their golden anniversary. I think they'd stayed something over 40 times. I think it was our 6th visit and we had started bumping into familiar faces. It's not the sort of place where you'll get cheap late bookings.
All of that said, yes I'm being a bit flippant but I do fully understand the current problems and the difficulties everyone are having. However the last two visits our group of 6 were accompanied by 2 more families, 16 total last time and 18 before that so they're probably hoping the rest will be tagging along with us if we go and this isn't a cheap place, your estimate of E1000 is more like E1500 according to their currently published figures.
