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Confessions of an Electrician...

Lisa Miles

So while we’ve not been able to log into the community (you can do so now if you didn’t already know) I’ve been keeping myself out of mischief Blush by going through some of the discussion topics on the old Wiring Regs forum and came across this one: Walking off site where some of you were sharing stories about your experiences with client's pets while on the job. 


So I thought it would be a bit of fun to ask you to share some of your funny/bizarre or just weird stories (keeping it relatively clean and protecting the privacy of others please!) from any jobs you’ve been on or done.


… And I’ll send some swag to the author of the story that gets voted the ‘Most helpful/liked’ from the community so don't forget to hit that 'Good Answer' link on any that make you chuckle! (Log in required)



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  • I once went to a house the complaint was our downstairs plugs have stopped working so I find the ring main fuse blown a after a bit of investigating I found a length of thin 2 core flex with the wires pushed. Into a socket the flex went behind a large cage with what I found out later was a ferret in it then through a wall to some wall lights the cause of the fuse failure was that the cage was pushed up against the wall trapping the flex and biting through the insulation  there was a black mark where it had shorted. When I pointed out to the householder how dangerous what they had one was it didn't seem to register with him until I mentioned that the cage would of been live at full mans and it could of killed the ferret then he was full of concern and asked me to put it all right

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  • I once went to a house the complaint was our downstairs plugs have stopped working so I find the ring main fuse blown a after a bit of investigating I found a length of thin 2 core flex with the wires pushed. Into a socket the flex went behind a large cage with what I found out later was a ferret in it then through a wall to some wall lights the cause of the fuse failure was that the cage was pushed up against the wall trapping the flex and biting through the insulation  there was a black mark where it had shorted. When I pointed out to the householder how dangerous what they had one was it didn't seem to register with him until I mentioned that the cage would of been live at full mans and it could of killed the ferret then he was full of concern and asked me to put it all right

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