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Hi all: Just come back from an Indesit KD3C11 Freestanding cooker after a Sparkie had tried to fit a new hob control.
Somehow even though he was swapping new for old he still managed to get the wiring wrong & blow up the new control, after trying to fix his C#~#up & blowing up his “meter” in the process he legged it from the house and drove off.
When I got there I found the remains of a pocket analogue meter on the floor, 1 blown up control, some charred wiring & a burnt MCB in the consumer unit. When will these people learn to leave things alone that they don’t understand? he’s turned a simple repair into a nightmare & left 1 very frightened old lady behind him. 😡 👿 & we think the DIY brigade are bad.
Andy.Re: Cowboys
Yes, putting right someones cockup is usually much harder than if you were given the job in the first place. I remember when I worked at Dunlop and we had day shift and night shift sparkies. Invariably, one shift would dismantle something for repair, make no notes of which wire went where, order the required parts and leave it for the other shift to put it back together 😆
Re: Cowboys
Phidom wrote:Yes, putting right someones cockup is usually much harder than if you were given the job in the first place. I remember when I worked at Dunlop and we had day shift and night shift sparkies. Invariably, one shift would dismantle something for repair, make no notes of which wire went where, order the required parts and leave it for the other shift to put it back together 😆
Yep been in that sort of situation, I trained as a sparks originally & spent most of my time as a troubleshooter for various companies, clearing up other peoples mess. Then I thought I would have a change & go into appliances full time :rolls: 😆
Andy.Re: Cowboys
I had a very similar problem with a cooker where a sparks had tried to repair a solid hotplate, he replaced the hotplate ok but had somehow got all the wires mixed up on the front panel to ALL of the regulators – So when the lady turned the cooker on, only that hotplate worked & everything else including the grill was dead !!! He charged her £80 for the privelege too ! Cheeky tw*t ! Obviously after the lady found out that the cooker wasn’t working properly I got a phone call to come round & check it out – Initially I thought it was just the mains connector on the back that had melted so replaced that & thats when I went to check the wiring – what a mess !!! 👿
One hour later all the hotplates worked & the grill also ! 😛
The lady kept me with a supply of tea & cake, she also paid me a nicely too ! She’s since called me for advice & repair of her other appliances.
Thanks to bodgers like that, means theres more customers for us – even if they do create a mess !Re: Cowboys
Hey how do you get the customers that give you tea & cake? Half the estates I go to you wouldn’t dare accept a cuppa from them.
I agree, idiots that play with things they don’t understand give us more work. It just Pi$$-S me off that they get away with robbing people like that & then we usually get a lot less for putting the mess right after them.
Andy 😡 .
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