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There was a huge fire at a plastic recycling firm in Saltley Birmingham yesterday!  I could see it in Tipton when going to fetch the wife from work, which is easily over 10 miles away. Initially, I thought it was a lot closer until I saw the events on the news...

Was told this joke in church at the weekend (honest!) There was a very famous cowboy, bit of a cheeky sod who liked to play the game all through his life.  When he finally passed away he had this written on his headstone. 1.  Its very important for a man to be to have a supportive woman behind...

Did 1/2 days portable appliance testing today for local salon.  Found a few faults that were never picked up by previous sticker brigade ie incorrect fuse sizes, plug tops without sleeved live and neutral pins etc..  customer said last year the guy did it really quickly shifting his paper from...

A couple of days ago, not working too far from home and the Mrs needed me to come back home at dinner time as she wasnt feeling too well and she wanted me to make her a sarnie and a cuppa. Builder was outside on his newly leaking roof, the homeowners were  in the living room and i know them...

Tomorrow i am going to fit a blanking plate to a redundant light switch in a domestic property.  The live cables will still be in the back box which i will put into wagos, but i cannot disconnect them from the loft as they go through to the other side of the wall which is newly decorated and...

Been asked by an elderly friend to put a 2 gang socket in her garage.  Im thinking of putting an rcd protected socket in there. The present consumer unit i think original to the property (about 25 years old) is a  Square D QOE with those metal prongs and plastic clips on the back of the...

At Elex Coventry I had a chat with the guy from Beansystems, they are based in Bridgend (i think).  He downloaded the Leccy App onto my android phone and helped me setup an account and free trial. Well it all looked quite good,  you could do a quote, invoice etc whilst onsite and email it to...

Couple of years ago i installed 3 sets of led lights for customer in his stairwell (commercial premises).  He supplied the kits from B&Q which were 10 led lights per plug in transformer. Now one of the transformer plugs has gone faulty (probably the rest will follow suit shortly) and i have...

Went to price a job yesterday, just a few extra sockets for a lady who is converting bedroom to an office. Surprisingly on the cupboard door next to the 16 th edition consumer unit there was a full circuit schedule including cct no, no of points and locations. I thought WOW! Dont normally see...

Well the government are looking at placing curfews and restricting young drivers from taking their friends out by car at night. Ok seems a fairly good idea which isnt going to work, i think a zero ban on alcohol might be a better idea and compulsory night driving lessons along with motorway...

Well as you know the boiler packed in monday, then the iron has started tripping the rcd and now last night an almighty bang from the washing machine! Washing machine is just a broken drum spring so £18 for a spring kit and hopefully nothing else has been broken inside, but wont know until...

Just wandered who is going to Elex on friday? Im not really too bothered about buying stuff from there, but would be nice to meet up with you guys/ladies if your going to be there.

Yesterday two couriers turned up, the mrs had ordered a pair of knee high boots and a st trinians outfit! Im thinking ....christmas is still 3 months away..whats going on here then? After some probing and investigation the Mrs then owns up and explains she ordered it for her best friend at...

Had the longest voicemail yesterday off a dear old lady asking me to fix her kitchen light. It just carried on and on and on (you get the message)! Phoned her earlier to sort out the problem which might just be lamp and starter replacement, but that was a 20 minute conversation! Going to see...

Well for the last 6 months we have had an intermittent leak from our system boiler (y plan) resulting every now and then with some water on the floor underneath the boiler itself.  The boiler is in our converted garage. We have central heating cover, used to be with BG but now its with another...

Hu guys/ladies, fed up with carp wifi in the house so i have successfully installed an access point to improve the signal upstairs. Guy at the local computer shop wasnt much help as he doesnt know much about networks etc just happy to sell me the gear. At present temporarily got a cat5...

Was doing some alterations in a property today and as the owners were out I just popped round to the neighbours to say Id be making a lot of noise as chasing sockets etc and just checked they hadnt got any Ming vases on the party wall :slap At about 10.30am the elderly guy (who made me jump...

Despite the heat today, starting work on a sunday at 8am, the miserable sods never offered me one drink today! They must of saw the sweat pour off my head onto their carpet, and despite my comments they never offered me a bevvy and I was doing them a big favour working today!!!

Guy i do some work for asked me to have a look at his house intruder alarm.  He told me he turned it off about a month ago as it kept on making funny sounds at the RKP. So went to have a look tonight at short notice as he always wants stuff doing yesterday! and its an accenta mini installed...

Back to work today after a nice week off in sunny Devon near budleigh salterton/exmouth last week.  Didnt do much really apart from being chilled out with no stress apart from keeping the daughter amused with things to do.   Went to Paignton Zoo as my daughter is into Pandas and she was really...