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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 was testing a cabinet we had built to run a flow meter calibration rig. The rig had been built by the customer and had 9" diameter pipes and valve fed by a big pump with a multi thousand litre water tank about 30 ft up in the air. I bet you are all ahead of me here.


    A joint on the pipework  failed   resulting in a 40ft fountain water, I panicked and pressed the emergency stop button to stop the pump. Unfortunately this also cut the supply to the valves and the control board so I could not tun the valves off and the fountain was now being fed by gravity from the tank. The lever to manually close the valves was on a valve under the fountain so I had to get soaked to get the lever and continue getting soaked turning off the valves. When the customer turned up he went and got a gigantic (8Ft high) three phase wet and dry vacuum. I had an hours wet drive to get home to dry off and change.
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  • I was testing a cabinet we had built to run a flow meter calibration rig. The rig had been built by the customer and had 9" diameter pipes and valve fed by a big pump with a multi thousand litre water tank about 30 ft up in the air. I bet you are all ahead of me here.


    A joint on the pipework  failed   resulting in a 40ft fountain water, I panicked and pressed the emergency stop button to stop the pump. Unfortunately this also cut the supply to the valves and the control board so I could not tun the valves off and the fountain was now being fed by gravity from the tank. The lever to manually close the valves was on a valve under the fountain so I had to get soaked to get the lever and continue getting soaked turning off the valves. When the customer turned up he went and got a gigantic (8Ft high) three phase wet and dry vacuum. I had an hours wet drive to get home to dry off and change.
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