Horrendous DIY Electrical work!

I bet their rates are reasonable though!:mrgreen:

The bit about Mrs Jones tumbling down the stairs reminds me of my first few days at work, though....

On my first day, I had the tour of the premises from the director. Twas a Victorian terrace over four floors, with the company taking over adjoining properties as they expanded.

Opening a door, he pointed to an alarm panel on the right hand wall, and told me how the code to set and unset the system.

Forward a couple of weeks, and I was first one in. Shades on head and rucksack over shoulder, I opened the door, stepped forward to face the panel, and........

.......saw it getting smaller and smaller, as I disappeared backwards down what I then realised were stone cellar stairs:eek:

I came to seconds later in pitch blackness, not knowing where I was, with the bloody alarm still beeping!

The scratch marks from my nails were still down the wall when we moved premises.......
 
I wonder how much the remedial work is going to cost..........

Its a bit beyond a DIYer adding a dodgy spur.
 
The people that owned the house before me had the bathroom done and decided to change the old electric shower to a mains shower but the company that did it left the live electric cable under the bath.....i only found it 2 years after we moved in whilst doing flooring
 
(a) Not a DIY job. He talks about what the "customer" had asked for.
(b) Why can't people hold their phones the right way round to make videos?
 
My electrician last year found a 6mm ( i think ) it was an old feed to a double oven plastered in to an old back box still live , it had been like that for 10 years. Glad i never used the old electrician again.
 
I found a 6mm T&E plastered over in my kitchen wall, that was still live when I moved in.
Knowing that nothing would be using it I removed it from the fuse box, nothing stopped working.
It was simply taped over then plastered.

As dodgy as many of the other bits of electrics in this house (that I have replaced).
 
I remember fitting a shower in a house that had been a show house. I was in the loft and got a real belter of a shock when I touched a live cable. There was a 6mm feed from the consumer unit up to the loft, the builders had removed the power shower from the show house when they sold the house but had left the feed connected and live. It was a good find as it saved me some work.
 
Probably east europeans, my tenants in a rental asked if they could install a second external socket and light [had one already but not where they wanted it] guy said his father was qualified electrician [in Hungary] Ok I said, when I visited the installation had been done with bellwire and no earth.!!
 
I thought the stuff I've found in my current (no pun intended) and previous house were bad, but this is several levels beyond. Unbelievable.
 
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