no work in jan now thanks electricians!!!!!

[peckers]

Had a phone call tonight, I had four nice sice bathrooms to tile in a house that has undergone a complete refurbishment!
The electricians had been doing some work in the loft space and guess what?
The house burnt down last night due to an electrical fault!!!
Luckily the house was un-occupied and no one was hurt!
Apparently there was a short in some new wiring somewhere in the loft space!
So i could have a long christmas holiday!

[Dave]

..not nice...

[Prem Tiler]

You do get some bad luck!

Hope 2010 is better for you mate.

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

and i though that the days of electrical fires were over with new work

[peckers]

You do get some bad luck!

Hope 2010 is better for you mate.

I thought it was gonna be had jan and feb booked up i thought this is a good start to 2010, I know i cant bring febs work forward so will have to make a few calls and see what i can find!

[whitebeam]

Hope somebody is insured

[hillhead]

Thats rough peckers,pity you couldn't claim off the sparks insurance too

[Stan001]

I was nearly a guilty party !! … how’s this one for you ref the cold snap – had to take a hair dryer with me in the van in Friday cos I was sure the tap outside the house we’re working on would be frozen. It wasn’t but I could have burnt a house down … cos i also took the fan heater (hands were frozen wet cutting crappy trav all day Thursday), plugged in to heat our room, everything fine for an hour then my extension reel (which is a JCB jobbie with a built in trip) tripped out. Felt the extension reel and the cable was getting warm! … a bit embarrassing as I have a pocket full of elecy qualifications – oooops …. So if you plug a fan heater (sucks loads of current) into your extension reel – then make sure the cable is fully extended and not coiled up on the reel.

[whitebeam]

I done that with 110v once and only once, it stunk

[Ajax123]

I was nearly a guilty party !! … how’s this one for you ref the cold snap – had to take a hair dryer with me in the van in Friday cos I was sure the tap outside the house we’re working on would be frozen. It wasn’t but I could have burnt a house down … cos i also took the fan heater (hands were frozen wet cutting crappy trav all day Thursday), plugged in to heat our room, everything fine for an hour then my extension reel (which is a JCB jobbie with a built in trip) tripped out. Felt the extension reel and the cable was getting warm! … a bit embarrassing as I have a pocket full of elecy qualifications – oooops …. So if you plug a fan heater (sucks loads of current) into your extension reel – then make sure the cable is fully extended and not coiled up on the reel.

I only ever wind out enough to cover the distance I need. Will rethink thsat idea in the future - fortunatley never had a problem

[hillhead]

same thing happened to me last year,110v lead fried and melted together and onto reel !!
tripped whole house!i always use shorter lead where ever now! and long one winded out! take no chances lads and ladies.

[faithhealer]

Hope you can sort some work out Peckers

[CJ]

Could do without that Peckers

[Rob Z]

Wow, Peckers that is one for the record books. I hope you get loaded up on some more work soon.

[Rob Z]

I was nearly a guilty party !! … how’s this one for you ref the cold snap – had to take a hair dryer with me in the van in Friday cos I was sure the tap outside the house we’re working on would be frozen. It wasn’t but I could have burnt a house down … cos i also took the fan heater (hands were frozen wet cutting crappy trav all day Thursday), plugged in to heat our room, everything fine for an hour then my extension reel (which is a JCB jobbie with a built in trip) tripped out. Felt the extension reel and the cable was getting warm! … a bit embarrassing as I have a pocket full of elecy qualifications – oooops …. So if you plug a fan heater (sucks loads of current) into your extension reel – then make sure the cable is fully extended and not coiled up on the reel.

Stan I never thought about this before, makes sense...thanks for the tip.

[davy_G]

Good luck peckers, the work comes along like busses. Get along to your tile shops and tell them why your free for a month or so. There is always someone buying tiles in the sales wanting them fitted yesterday...

[doug boardley]

no half measures from the sparky's there peckers

[lucius]

Come on lads i thought that every one new to unreel the cable fully when using it for any length of time that was one of the first things i was ever told and the other was dont connect two or three extensions together for distance as it will burn out what ever you are using, dont know why these things happen i dont go near electrics just listened to people who new better when i was younger.
Lucius