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Not quite sure what you mean but I used to regularly have to repair various machines at a place where there were toadstools growing on the wall behind the machine. They used to buy machines on their last legs and I would try and keep them going until the next heap of junk was acquired!
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Large dead rat across the mains terminals was my worst. Didn’t go there again.
Chris.
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A W/m in south east london that was totaly infested with live cockroaches I politley told the customer get it cleaned up and we will come back Imagine my horror when 4 weeks later I got the job again. Needless to say I didnt go back.
Goose
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Hoover with the water in it for 3 months. Black. Coin jammed in pump. Binbags from the front door to the hallway. Very sad looking child in house.
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Pair of surgeons scissors wedged in heater assy. Complained of machine rattling, I wonder why 😯
Steve
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went to house that had dog poo in kitchen i mean all over on kitchen
and in hall way as well and nappies use one piled up in corner left pretty quickA “Lady” having to use a brush and pan half a dozen times in an attempt to pick up “some” of the rat poo all over the top and behind the fridge. She fed her pets inside hence the rats and the bench was covered with waste food shopping plastic cans etc etc.
A rat looking at you from under a dishwasher with base full of water.
The stomach renching stench from months of water sitting on the floor in a laundry where ferrets lived along with boxes, washing, dog food etc etc
A “gentleman who just couldn’t bear to throw out the newspapers, brochures etc. He had to clear a huge pile just so I could open the door 85 degrees. Had to get him to call us back when we could get to pull the fridge out. The garage was the same.
Having to remove a dishwasher many years ago that was recessed into the floor approx 50mm just so it could fit under the hotplates recessed into the bench top.
Having to use a block and tackle to hall a large side x side up a flight of stairs.
Having to clear the pump of rubbery things and sharps at the brothels
Simply now walk away from any job that is likely to cause health and safety issues or logistical nightmares
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I think this falls in to this “cat”agory;
Had to go to an emergency call to a pub because of the owners persion cat had climbed in their Zanussi machine and they had not realised till it was too late, They just turned it off, called me and hoped for the best.
😥 not very nice, what made it even more sad was they had a second cat that just sat in front staring at the machine even after i’d got it out.
Not the best job to have to do, and i’d recommend you pass it on to another if you ever get a call to do the same.
Didn’t even have the heart to charge them 🙁
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Smelly brown ‘sludge’ ousing from a disconnected sump hose/blocked filter, only to discover the ‘nanny’ had put in a load of terry towelling nappies without first emptying the contents 😯
Went to a house once in Balloch where the lady of the house thought it prudent to keep her chickens in the kitchen along with assorted other wildlife, the strangest being rats in HAZMAT suits! 😆
It was on a council estate too, not a farm. 😕
K.
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I know but t was a case of, Sorry the cat’s dead, where do you want me to put it, and oh heres’s the bill didn’t really seem appropriate, it was all very sad 🙁
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Once pulled a live 5.56 mm round from an SA80 from a washing machine. It was wedged in the heater element. Seems the customer’s brother was in the Marines.
This one’s in the yuk category. On removing a w/m once, I found that the waste hose had been inserted into a hole made in the 4 inch waste pipe coming down from the upstairs toilet. Made me honk to discover human waste all over the end of the hose. Sorry, I’ve got to go, it’s just set me off again…………………
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