DIY Disaster Stories

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How does one cut the power to a consumer box in such situations & not die?....plastic sandles, oven gloves & wooden cooking spoon to flick the main switch . I didn't have long to think.

Pull the main fuse from the meter cupboard assuming it was outside, modern installs will have an isolation switch there too.

 

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Well this is the best thread in a long, long time. The dimmer switch one had me laughing hysterically he cut a hole out of the door hahaha

There are plenty of videos of "qualified" tradesmen doing this!!

I bought one the next day.

Got a Fluke voltage detector pen and a neon indicator screwdriver.

These are banned at the my work, not sure why, I guess they had an incident at some point.

I was given the task of changing the crappy contractor bath taps to something more pleasant by the then gf. No problem, lovely new taps were bought and I got on with the job, isolation valves didn't fully hold so there was still some water running as I disconnected the old taps. Seemed Ok so I carried on and fitted new taps with water slowly pouring out, bosh all good.

Happy with a job well done I get shouted at that there is a sizable wet patch on the downstairs wc ceiling. Hmm Ok, on investigation I then decided to see just how damaged the ceiling was by giving a gentle nudge with my fingers and a fair sized chunk of the ceiling fell down.

Hole is still there to this day!!