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<blockquote data-quote="johnbyrne" data-source="post: 3147" data-attributes="member: 316"><p>Fairly recently I was called to a bungalow that had a pipe burst in the loft, it was unoccupied , and worse still they due to exchange contracts on it's sale that very day.</p><p></p><p>The damage was not actually that bad, no ceilings down but three rooms had lighting with water present. I insulation tested what there was there , disconnected the low readings, basically lighting beneath the flood, but left the sockets on for the heaters to work to dry the place out.</p><p></p><p>There was a ten thousand pound retention on the sale, subject to the problems being fixed, basically a bit of plastering and carpet damage, plus me reconnecting and certificating.</p><p></p><p>On going back the new owners were there, and the previous one , with two different views of why I was there.</p><p></p><p>I started by insulation testing the place as a whole, 100k, eek it was 6 meg last week, looked around for any new fittings that might have appeared in the last fortnight, nothing. Nothing for it but to disconnect and check circuit by circuit, and it was the ring main, so asked the customer if they had left anything plugged in, I had asked them to remove everything, two minutes later she returned holding my martindale, I found this. is it yours?</p><p></p><p>My training to become an idiot is progressing well, I suppose around 100k should have screamed neon to me.</p><p></p><p>Cheers</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="johnbyrne, post: 3147, member: 316"] Fairly recently I was called to a bungalow that had a pipe burst in the loft, it was unoccupied , and worse still they due to exchange contracts on it's sale that very day. The damage was not actually that bad, no ceilings down but three rooms had lighting with water present. I insulation tested what there was there , disconnected the low readings, basically lighting beneath the flood, but left the sockets on for the heaters to work to dry the place out. There was a ten thousand pound retention on the sale, subject to the problems being fixed, basically a bit of plastering and carpet damage, plus me reconnecting and certificating. On going back the new owners were there, and the previous one , with two different views of why I was there. I started by insulation testing the place as a whole, 100k, eek it was 6 meg last week, looked around for any new fittings that might have appeared in the last fortnight, nothing. Nothing for it but to disconnect and check circuit by circuit, and it was the ring main, so asked the customer if they had left anything plugged in, I had asked them to remove everything, two minutes later she returned holding my martindale, I found this. is it yours? My training to become an idiot is progressing well, I suppose around 100k should have screamed neon to me. Cheers [/QUOTE]
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