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Had a good one today I just had to let everyone share this one.
Indeshit dishwasher, fault code A01 (flooding into base).
Unplugged for safety and tipped machine backwards to see if water ran out from the base. Bone dry 😕
Machine on it’s side, base off, then the smell hit me, dead mouse in there with lots of little brown things which I took to be grain or bird seed, neither……… MAGGOTS :eeek:The mouse had done itself in on the wiring to the antiflood switch then obviously been “struck” by a bluebottle, maggots forced themselves under the float.
Couldn’t find this in UKWG fault codes
Anyone one else had a good un like this?
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ive found a dead rat across the live and neutral terminals on a hotpoint electric cooker, it was causing the rcd to trip! removed it and cooker was ok, wouldnt fancy eating anything cooked on that cooker though!
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Over the years I have had several electrocuted rodents in washers and dryers but one of the strangest such faults was caused by an earwig in a Hotpoint top loader.
This machine had the off white/yellow Crouzet type control timer and this little blighter had crawled right inside the timer and was shorted out across one of the internal switches, the timer was goosed.
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In the good old renting days we had 6 hoover slowping front washers at a dye making factory . the call was for a funny smell
in the wash room . the factory cat had got in one of the machines . well you no the rest lol , still to this day 30 years on it still frightend the jheeebers out of me when it fell out , a bit like the jaws movie iff you get my jistRe: Whats the strangest fault you have come across?
Having to scrape out a dead TOAD, just a bit smaller than the vent hose diameter from a Hoover TV30 dryer. It got all the way to the motor fan…the customer didn’t know until they put the dryer on. These toads apparently used to shelter in an outhouse when it rained. They were meant to come through a modified cat flap, but this one toad mistook the open vent hose for the flap. Ouch…
I can still smell & feel it… It was like squeezing a filled water bomb.Also had an E1 fault on a Hoover new wave caused by a slug shorting on the module.
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Mass of snails blocking outside washer drainpipe causing overflow damage in kitchen.
Squirrels hoarding hazelnuts in cooker hood.
Dead cat jammed behind Easiclene diswasher. (back in the mid 60’s by the way)
Dalmatian pups stuck under a Swanmaid dishwasher.(also yonks ago)
Live hamster trapped behind Neff domino hob extractor.
Au pair stuck in larder when dishwasher door opened jamming larder door shut.
Overflowing bathwater in flat above leaks onto Neff hob causing spark generator fault.
Ice build-up behind chest freezer cabinet freezes washing machine inlet hose.
Absorbsion fridge heater element dropped under my van prompts police bomb scare.
Child posted wax crayons through oven cooling vent, melted jamming selfclean lock.
Creda Debonair spinner lid lock jammed by jock strap.
Idiot child puts several commercial cloth vac dust bags in washer to clean.
Dogs beanbag bedding explodes styrene foam inside washer dryer.
1000’s of assorted buttons placed in cloth bags put machine that split apart.
………just a few selected highlights of my long long time in this soddy trade. :rolls:Re: Whats the strangest fault you have come across?
I forgot about this one from the other week, new series Bosch DW. tripping RCD. Looked inside and spotted the suppressor was blackened, easy job. Stuck my fingers into it find a slimy mess, half incinerated slug lying across the terminals, still makes me cringe.
One thing for sure we deserve every penny we get in this industry, bit like plumbers sticking their hands around the toilet bend and up sewer pipes. No wonder some people prefer to work in a bank, all they have to put up with is the verbal type shyteRe: Whats the strangest fault you have come across?
Spookily eastlmark had a similar problem with slugs earlier this year!!!
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That looks like a typical Indeshit board out of any of their appliances lol
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Cockroaches where common inside Induction hobs in Southern Spain, both dead and alive.
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lee8 wrote:Cockroaches where common inside Induction hobs in Southern Spain, both dead and alive.
Ive been served a few over there Lee
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cockroaches very common in some parts of north london, if they have roaches then usually the module/pcb attracts them and then-module goes faulty
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Had a slug in the burner of a leisure range once, thew me for a while, checked gas pressure and ffd ,all read out, but the damn thing had blocked the burner pipe internally and I could not see it untill i took it out!! got it out with my screwdriver, bit by bit URGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
Jazz!
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The strangest one I came across was about 25 years ago. A customer called me out to a Zanussi washing machine. Turned out this guy had just done some time at Her Majesties pleasure. He told me that the machine worked perfectly before he went away and that he had left the door ajar to stop the machine from smelling as he knew he was’nt coming back for a while. When he returned he put his washing in, it filled up and overflowed!
Turned out a housefly had flew into the drum, got through one of the holes in the drum,couldn’t get out again and looked for an escape route,crawled up the tube to the pressure switch, got right up to the switch and could get no further, thus blocking the hole to the switch.
I found the fly in the pressure switch with it’s wings tucked back and it’s head jammed against the hole in the pressure switch.
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