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It's a funny old life.

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A holiday chalet family asked the site manager why there was a red “FAIL, DO NOT USE” sticker on their bedroom infra red wall heater.

He said that the electrician had found a chalet fault whilst it was undergoing an inspection and test.

They said that they had not called upon an electrician. What was going on?

I had carried out the inspection and test after the manager had given me the chalet number and key for the chalet.

I had found that the wall heater was not earthed. 

I had also found that a ring final circuit had an end to end C.P.C. reading of 16 Ohms.

The site manager had given me the wrong chalet to test and the wrong key. He had mixed two up.

But if he hadn't  done that the faults would still be there unfound and unreported.

I come across much D.I.Y. dodgy work.

It's a funny old life innit?

 

Z.

 

 

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    I was chatting to a retired lab technician the other day - he used to do a bit of ‘portable appliance testing’ and was given an extension lead to test (with some vague back story of someone perhaps having had a shock) - having spotted the obvious fault he fixed it & retested. Later the manager asked about the test and he explained what he'd done - to which the response was “Ah - that was meant to be evidence…”.

       - Andy.

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    I was chatting to a retired lab technician the other day - he used to do a bit of ‘portable appliance testing’ and was given an extension lead to test (with some vague back story of someone perhaps having had a shock) - having spotted the obvious fault he fixed it & retested. Later the manager asked about the test and he explained what he'd done - to which the response was “Ah - that was meant to be evidence…”.

       - Andy.

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