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Re: Enough to make you vomit…
goosegreen wrote:Not so much a dirty customer but a bit over zealous on cleaning. Dishwasher in a very hot conservatory and she must have filled it a large bottle of bleach as it was not draining and did,t want it to smell. Trouble was with that amount of bleach in a hot enclosed space it must of turned in to chlorine gas as when I opened the door I nearly collapsed with the fumes.
GooseIf you mix bleach with cleaning fluid containing sodium hypochlorite chlorine gas is produced. She probably put that in as well to make doubly certain the machine didn’t smell! 😀
I only remember that because, having learnt it at school, I tried the experiment at home. Stuck my face over the container and breathed in to see if chlorine was indeed given off but inhaled a bit too much. I then discovered very quickly that Cl2 unlike other gases inhibits breathing and the next door neighbour had to take me off to hospital fighting for breath and coughing profusely. 🙁 I lived to tell the tale.
Don’t try this one at home. 😯
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gegsy wrote:Blimey…………..what a erm………. GAS that must have been 😆 :rolls:
Greg
😆 Yes, it was a gas, but not in the 1960s meaning of the term, even though it was the 60s when it happened. 😯
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Was it Chlorine gas used in the 1st world war? and If like me and Roly you’ve had a sniff of it it you would realize that it would not be a good way to die.
Gooseroly16 wrote:
S1MON wrote:
One ill never forget went a few years ago during the really hot months of summer, had been called out to a dw in a top floor flat, customer had been away for weeks and cat sitter had been left to feed the cats. What I was not pepared for was the fact the kittys ate fresh salmon for brekkie and dinner and the lovely cat sitter had thrown the bowls and remains straight in the dishwasher. This subsquently blocked and had been left for 5 weeks to fester….. It was probably one of the worst things ive smelt in my life!!But did you do the job?
yep with the help of my ppe
S1MON wrote:
roly16 wrote:
One ill never forget went a few years ago during the really hot months of summer, had been called out to a dw in a top floor flat, customer had been away for weeks and cat sitter had been left to feed the cats. What I was not pepared for was the fact the kittys ate fresh salmon for brekkie and dinner and the lovely cat sitter had thrown the bowls and remains straight in the dishwasher. This subsquently blocked and had been left for 5 weeks to fester….. It was probably one of the worst things ive smelt in my life!!But did you do the job?
yep with the help of my ppe
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How do these people always manage to pay for extended warranties too? Funny when you go in and they say “Sorry about the mess we’re decorating” Then you go back a year later and it looks just the same and they say the same thing!!
Nige
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Yesterday……..
Hotpoint WF541 a/w in a fairly tidy house, elderly couple, not too well off. Problem – machine not starting. Trace to blown track on PCB, clean off the carbon, solder in bridging wire and it starts. Briefly….. Motor kicks in, RCD clicks out. Drop motor and remove 3/4s of (very dead) mouse from the commutator. Megger the damn thing, no leakage, so pop it back in and fire it up. It runs and very quickly starts to smell……. Not electricky, more sort of cooking……..
Pull the motor out again – the missing 1/4 of the late Mr. Mouse is smeared round the commutator (the brushes were actually sticking on the comm) and the brush tips and running surface were liberally coated with fur. Yuck. Well, disgusting really – I’m a city boy after all.
Got it all cleaned up, all running nicely, no nasty odours. It’s taken an hour and a half to resolve properly, but I decided to charge them for an hour – like I said, not well off, pensioners – and he wanted to argue about the bill.
When will I learn?
Chris.
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Penguin45 wrote:Yesterday……..
remove 3/4s of (very dead) mouse from the commutator. Megger the damn thing, no leakage, so pop it back in and fire it up. It runs and very quickly starts to smell……. Not electricky, more sort of cooking……..
Chris.
They’re nicer fried.
Re: Enough to make you vomit…
Went to a Zanussi washer a while back, not pumping.
Customer has Dog. Takes dog for walk. Dog does business. Customer collect doings in plastic bag. Puts bag in pocket. Wife washes jacket.
Wont tell you the rest, might spoil your meal.
Mike.
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