http://www.techsupportforum.com/blogs/ Tech Support Forum is a free computer support center for everyone. From Microsoft to Linux we support it all. en Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:52:19 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.techsupportforum.com/cwd/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.techsupportforum.com/blogs/ http://www.techsupportforum.com/blogs/125347-grumpygit/23-electrician-joke.html Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:57:34 GMT A friend of mine bought a house 3 years ago and decided to renovate it. He had to get the wiring looked at and so he called in the electrician. 4 days @ £200 a day later the electrician announced that he had finished and it was all now okay. Over the next few months the electrician was called... A friend of mine bought a house 3 years ago and decided to renovate it.
He had to get the wiring looked at and so he called in the electrician.
4 days @ £200 a day later the electrician announced that he had finished and it was all now okay.
Over the next few months the electrician was called back to sort out problems with something causing an earth fault.
Eventually he came up with the suggestion that the house was haunted and that was causing the problem with the electrics.
After we fell about laughing and told him where to stick his latest bill, i suggested to my friend that a new electrician was probably a good idea.
The next day the new electrician turned up and after about 2 hours of looking around and a lot of headscratching he said that it was the trip switch that was faulty and he had replaced it.
I was not sure about this as i had checked the trip switch and it was fine, but my friend said that he would see what happened.
Over the next 18 months the earth fault seemed to be okay and the RCD never tripped at all.
Today i got a phone call from him to ask if i could come and speak to the kitchen fitter who was working there because he said there was a problem with the electrics and my friend knows nothing about that sort of thing.
I got there and started to have a check around.
When i turned of the fuse for the sockets, some of them were still live.
When i turned of the lighting circuit half the lights still work.
The original electrician has just tapped everything into the nearest power source.
I found the source of the original earth fault to be a nail that shorted between two wires.
The most worrying thing is the way that the second electrician sorted out the earth fault, He removed the earth wire from the RCD so that it couldn't trip.
Tomorrow i start completely re-wiring his house and he is going to see a solicitor ]]> grumpygit http://www.techsupportforum.com/blogs/125347-grumpygit/23-electrician-joke.html http://www.techsupportforum.com/blogs/125347-grumpygit/15-here-goes-then.html Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:44:10 GMT Well i decided to give it a go. Where shall i start? Just finished tiling the kitchen floor (a job i started while the server was down last week.) Have at last installed firefox and going to give it a try over the next few weeks, (another thing that i got round to doing last week.) The mother... Well i decided to give it a go.
Where shall i start?
Just finished tiling the kitchen floor (a job i started while the server was down last week.)
Have at last installed firefox and going to give it a try over the next few weeks, (another thing that i got round to doing last week.)
The mother in law has now got a computer :eek:, so that could be interesting, i'm waiting for the phone calls to start. ]]> grumpygit http://www.techsupportforum.com/blogs/125347-grumpygit/15-here-goes-then.html