Todays work didnt happen

[M107]

A day of pulling in cables from one end of a building to the other between groundfloor comms room & switch room route through groundfloor ducting & through a basement....... came to a grinding halt when we went down the stairs & splash.......

4' of hot water in the basement :slap must have been going for ages....nobody noticed as the basement is disused apart from the BT ups cabinet, 12 of the 16 batteries were submerged the water was inches below the sockets.

14,000+ litres of hot water pumped out, tomorrows job is now test of lighting/socket/ups circuits.

 

[Barx]

Wow, sounds like that could have been a very dangerous situation there.

 

[M107]

Rather hurridly had to isolate all circuits so firebrigade could pump it all out, added problem of enviromental issues because of the batteries that may have leaked.

We suspect it was because some months back plumbers released a big bleed valve after doing some work on boilers upstairs, fired everything up but forgot the valve in the basement was open, so for the best part of 2 months the basement has been filling up:slap

Somebody is for the high jump.

 

[kerching]

We suspect it was because some months back plumbers released a big bleed valve after doing some work on boilers upstairs, fired everything up but forgot the valve in the basement was open, so for the best part of 2 months the basement has been filling up:slapSomebody is for the high jump.

Shouldn't that be 'somebody is for the water jump'?

Went into a school boiler room / cellar one day....water was to the TOP of the busbar chamber! [school was closed for summer holidays, luckily]

When the water was pumped out the busbars had gone from 'shiny tinned parallell copper bars' to a sort of 'twisted dull cherry red roller coaster ' sort of affair!

never blew a fuse!... :coat

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or somebody will be 'in hot water' over it... :coat

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or be 'in floods of tears'... :coat

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or you could change my emoticon to I'll get my boat...................... :coat

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Its strange how the surface tension keeps the lecky going. Everyday for about 3 months (disused building next door) i passed a bulkhead light with a GLS lamp in fully submersed water, the light was on and you could see the water level. Was still going when we had finished

 

[Andy™]

good thing those firemen were not too far away with the pumps to ge teh water out