Archive for November, 2008

I work part time as a teacher at my local college.  The college is connected to a charitable trust with a house in Wales that is rented out by the owners, a Christian charity trust, to less well off folks.

Every year various teachers have to go down with crowds of kids to fix the place up.  There were no electrical kids this year as apparently there has never been a desire for the youngsters to go down with their tutor (nothing to do with me, I’m new!) Therefore I was on my own.

This years projects among many was to fix up the bathroom, which involved re-wiring a badly wired shower and fitting a fan. I was working in a back kitchen area putting a missing 10mm² earth to an oil pipe. It was a little dark down in the corner so I had the lights on. continue

So, to set the scene for you, I was working away in town on some brand new apartments.  The client calls me up to an 8th floor pad telling me that the cleaners can’t clean because the hoover is tripping the flat power.  Up I go, thinking of faulty hoovers…. continue