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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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  • Legh Richardson‍ You'd be surprised how common it is in larger houses. We had one entire street of houses that were all similar. (One of those Georgian Terraces). Being five storeys (plus basement) most of them had been used as flats at some point in their history, so fuseboards everywhere. It wasn't so much a case of "Identify the circuit it's on" but "identify the board it's on!"


    Add to that that the sheer size of the place led to multiple LONG parallel runs of cable... so voltage indicator pens were hopeless, even the fluke ones.


    Colleague just gave up, and I named his method "Testing ADS with an old pair of snips"


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  • Legh Richardson‍ You'd be surprised how common it is in larger houses. We had one entire street of houses that were all similar. (One of those Georgian Terraces). Being five storeys (plus basement) most of them had been used as flats at some point in their history, so fuseboards everywhere. It wasn't so much a case of "Identify the circuit it's on" but "identify the board it's on!"


    Add to that that the sheer size of the place led to multiple LONG parallel runs of cable... so voltage indicator pens were hopeless, even the fluke ones.


    Colleague just gave up, and I named his method "Testing ADS with an old pair of snips"


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