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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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  • Surely, the ferret was protected as it was in a Faraday cage?


    Its not so common when stripping out old cabling to snip one that's still live. Most people would have thought its unlikely to happen if you turn the power off and disconnect all the circuits from the consumer unit  Not us, my first job working for a builder was to pull out all the lead wiring in an old domestic property. Found all the upstairs lighting circuits in the loft and proceeded to disconnect using the side cutters, only that one of the cables was still live. Flash bang and temporarily blinded. Continued to chop away and another bang flash. We eventually found that the lighting circuit was wired into next doors power circuit.


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  • Surely, the ferret was protected as it was in a Faraday cage?


    Its not so common when stripping out old cabling to snip one that's still live. Most people would have thought its unlikely to happen if you turn the power off and disconnect all the circuits from the consumer unit  Not us, my first job working for a builder was to pull out all the lead wiring in an old domestic property. Found all the upstairs lighting circuits in the loft and proceeded to disconnect using the side cutters, only that one of the cables was still live. Flash bang and temporarily blinded. Continued to chop away and another bang flash. We eventually found that the lighting circuit was wired into next doors power circuit.


    Legh
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