Called out at 7pm to a TNS suply "sockets tripped & crackling noise from behind dishwasher"
Find the crabtree cu & one of the 6amp mcb's is taped off....
"the electrician that put up the outside light did that because the mb is faulty & wont reset, so he has put all the lights on the same mcb"
Well it's not an ideal fix but if he is going o replace the mcb ok for a short while...
"we've been calling him for 6 onths but he doesnt turn up or more recently just ignors our calls"
I might have an mcb in the van so I'll change it while im here, but it is rare for them to go fault where they will not latch.
So I open the cu & it had a neat pile of brick dust inside, take out the taped off mcb & empty it of dust...........hey presto it now latches & works.
The last bloke had to have seen the piles of dust in the cu when he connected up the outside light, after all it was he who driled through the wall just above the cu.....25mm hole for a 1mm t/e over kill or what.
So all you newbies out there, there is a reason you are told to clean out the cu's before hand over to the customer.......and for all those time served who just let the dust fall into the cu..........you should know chuffing better.
As for the fault I was called to loose conductors in the fused spur feeding the dishwasher................Zs test came in at 4.98ohms :| so checked Ze 3.87hms placed a call to SSE for the customer & left them waiting for the engineers.
Felt guilty charging them
Find the crabtree cu & one of the 6amp mcb's is taped off....
"the electrician that put up the outside light did that because the mb is faulty & wont reset, so he has put all the lights on the same mcb"
Well it's not an ideal fix but if he is going o replace the mcb ok for a short while...
"we've been calling him for 6 onths but he doesnt turn up or more recently just ignors our calls"
I might have an mcb in the van so I'll change it while im here, but it is rare for them to go fault where they will not latch.
So I open the cu & it had a neat pile of brick dust inside, take out the taped off mcb & empty it of dust...........hey presto it now latches & works.
The last bloke had to have seen the piles of dust in the cu when he connected up the outside light, after all it was he who driled through the wall just above the cu.....25mm hole for a 1mm t/e over kill or what.
So all you newbies out there, there is a reason you are told to clean out the cu's before hand over to the customer.......and for all those time served who just let the dust fall into the cu..........you should know chuffing better.
As for the fault I was called to loose conductors in the fused spur feeding the dishwasher................Zs test came in at 4.98ohms :| so checked Ze 3.87hms placed a call to SSE for the customer & left them waiting for the engineers.
Felt guilty charging them
