**** **** ****, Always Check!

[Dougs Third Go]

Doing a kitchen splashie this week, old "redundant" immersion socket in the way ie straddling the plumb line up from worktop edge, customer tells me it's proper dead.....while I was hacking off all the old perished plaster to make good for dot and dabbing plasterboard I got my claw hammer and loosened said socket box free, then tugged it by socket face....almighty blue flash and a bloody big bang. Got sparky round today, apparently if I'd been touching the box when I pulled the socket face I wouldn't be typing this thread now..

 

[Old Mod]

OMG Doug!
Don't u live dangerously enough?
Glad it was just a close call!

 

[Dougs Third Go]

OMG Doug!
Don't u live dangerously enough?
Glad it was just a close call!

Nowt like feeling "more alive" when you could've been dead haha..

 

[Old Mod]

Nowt like feeling "more alive" when you could've been dead haha..

Nothing like a 'mal' to heighten the senses!

 

[Dougs Third Go]

And just to top the day off, I reversed into a vw golf, blind spot on wing mirrors, rear vièw obstructed by tools...my truck ok (well it would be, L200 tank),,,,,do I pay the guy privately or do I go through insurance?.....£400 excess and loss of full ncd?

 

[White Room]

I keep something similar to this in the van NEW NON CONTACT VOLTAGE AC VOLT DETECTOR LIVE WIRE ELECTRICAL PEN TESTER SENSOR

The insurance, could only ask about whether they would work outside rather than going through the usual route.

 

[Old Mod]

Would be dependant on cost of repairs I'd imagine,
but that was just rubbing salt!!

 

[Just Rizzle]

years ago when ripping out an old office block, the wireing was supposed to have been disconnected I cut through some conduit and ended up across the room and half way up the wall. my safety boots apparently saved me

 

[WetSaw]

Working at a friends villa here with the electricity turned off at the main breaker. As I'd turned off the main breaker I didn't bother testing to check it was dead..... Big mistake! Somehow it still had the "temporary" builders supply connected that doesn't go through the meter or fuseboard.
An ingenious Spanish sparky managed to utilise the free supply to run the pool heat pumps and garden lighting.
I always test everything now and test my tester before I turn the power off ( ...yes I know you should anyway, but do you all do it every time?)

 

[bluesky]

1994 - fitting a spur in a loft for an aerial amplifier- i turned off at the main box - told the customer what id done - went back to the loft and sat with my legs hanging through the hatch - went to cut the cable - forgot my cutters so bit through the sheathing and got an almighty shock through my teeth - shins hit the edge of the hatch!!!
went downstairs to find the lady had turned leccy back on so she could make me a cup of tea!!!!

 

[Dougs Third Go]

I'm counting myself lucky, my uncle Bert got struck and killed by lightning

 

[CJ]

 

[Italy]

After all these adventures I was wondering:
but differential switch saves lives, do not use?