Urban myths

[sparkybird]

Went to look at a job a while ago - lady wanted few extra sockets. I explained that there would be damage to the walls which would need to be filled/plastered and redecorated.

Why?, she said. Well, I said, I have to get the cable to the new socket positions. Oh, she replied, but I though you just put the sockets on the wall and that was it!

If only......

 

[Adam_151]

The correct answer to that is:
"The ician on my van is preceded by electr, not mag...."

... I've also heard of ones who fix the sockets to the wall themselves and then call the electrician out when they fail to magically work

 

[jossper]

Well, I suppose at least they'd pass the insulation test! Might fail on loop test though

 

[DESL]

Went to look at a job a while ago - lady wanted few extra sockets. I explained that there would be damage to the walls which would need to be filled/plastered and redecorated.

Why?, she said. Well, I said, I have to get the cable to the new socket positions. Oh, she replied, but I though you just put the sockets on the wall and that was it!

If only......

The number of times I've been to look at jobs like this when they have just decorated then rearranged the room and want extra sockets or wall lights.
They look at you as if you're mad when you explain the amount of work needed.

Then there's the dreaded laminate flooring on the 1st floor!!!!!!

 

[solo]

Been to a job today where they'd goosed the PRV on the combi due to constant topping up cos the electric shower was running at a trickle

 

[jossper]

DESL, I once went to a house owned by a bloke who owned a tile shop. He'd tiled everything, everywhere, badly! All the walls, all the (suspended) floors, even the stairs! The living room looked like a giant public convenience with a sofa in it.

 

[thomo27]

I used to work in a leisure club up towards Newcastle , a lot of Newcastle supporters uused to come in the club, a lady signed in and announced that Faustino Asprilla was signing for Newcastle (who you may ask) but he was a Columbian International at the time , I asked her ' did he receive an Escort from the airport' to which she replied no i think it was Mercedes

 

[Minton]

Went to look at a job a while ago - lady wanted few extra sockets. I explained that there would be damage to the walls which would need to be filled/plastered and redecorated.

I had a look at a job last year. The kitchen had been plastered and the guy had fitted all his metal back boxes in place. Lovely job.

Only problem. No cables. Not a one.

 

[bernardgreen]

No cables. not a problem, use wireless electricity. Everything is going wireless. why not 13 amp sockets as well........... ? ? ?

 

[efiste2]

Ive stopped quite a few "engineers" from turning off major factorys/consumers and even whole villiages due to them not knowing exactly what they are doing, Even, stopped a so called "engineer" from re-energising an 11kv Overhead line circuit WHILST THE LINESMAN WERE STILL WORKING ON IT, I dont know about the domestic and commercial game that most of you chaps on here seem to specialize in, but on the power distribution side of things, the tendency is to promote people with little or no experience of actually working on the system to positions way above their station, They may have all the qualifications, but no actual experience of how systems work and operate............which at any level of the Electricity industry is DANGEROUS, so as you fellows have posted on here, it pays to watch your back!!!

 

[Stoday]

I once attended a botched kitchen job.When I told the lady of my concerns she said to me " the guy who did the wiring was a proper electrician - he came in a van!"

Of course.

If he were a cowboy he'd ride up on a horse.

 

[ColJack]

it's quite common to promote the idiots who do jobs badly into strictly desk jobs..

as one of my workmates said.. "those that can do, do... those that can't, teach.."

 

[JohnD]

and those that can't teach... teach.

 

[ricicle]

They may have all the qualifications........

Or have a good Golf handicap

 

[jujubean]

Did a council flat rewire years ago...the guy in the house went out cuz he couldnt stand the drilling...anyways about 4 hours later this surly drunken bald guy just breezes in and made a nuisance of himself I asked him to leave which he did but he returned another 4 times so my mate and I literally threw him outa the place and gave him a terrible mouthfull of physical threats if he came back
We later realised it were the householder who had gone and gotten all his hair shaved off and had been up the pub
we were in deep trouble over that