They'd Have Burned Me as a Witch 200yrs Ago....

[snohare]

What have I started?! Membership of the Grapevine Coven??.......

Don't worry Creemteez. It's just a spell the Grapes are going through.

[veggiechicken]

I do hope my dream the night before last doesn't come true! I was putting something in the oven, and got an electric shock, enough of a jolt to wake me up, heart racing. Having had a 'near miss' with electricity a few years back I know what it's actually like. (The people in our previous house had wallpapered over a drill hole in the wall. Obviously we didn't know, and I was using the steam wallpaper stripper to remove it prior to decorating. Turned out they had drilled into the wall, hit a cable, and just wallpapered over it, not even covered it with filler! The metal scraper I was using had a black scorch mark on it, and I felt really strange for a while.)

That's a Flashback!

[snohare]

Yes, they always come as a shock, don't they...

[veggiechicken]

Like a bolt from the blue.....

[snohare]

A shocking tale. A bit off the wall, but I believe it...
The sort of thing that would make any HSE inspector's eyes light up !

[Jeanied]

This actually happened to my neighbour in her kitchen- a plastered over metal box for a wall socket, with the wires just twisted together inside. A damp proofing firm was removing plaster to inject the wall behind, when lo and behold- a big bang and the fuse popped. The firm moved off site for a couple of weeks until an electrician made the whole place safe. Leaving her with no kitchen for a month.

[veggiechicken]

You can't re-fuse to believe it.... Questions like- wi're we doing it: watt's happening when we're getting on like a house on fire must have flashed before BS's eyes.....

[Aberdeenplotter]

re-volting innit?

[snohare]

re-volting innit?

Care to amplify ?

I pity the poor neighbour, but I suppose her kitchen was transformed in the end. But it's the sort of hair raising tale that small tradesmen worry about, even though their fears are usually groundless.

[Jeanied]

I think she is going to sue! The kitchen is still a wreck.

[snohare]

I think she is going to sue

Hmmm...the tradesmen arrived and found the workspace to be unsafe - not, admittedly, due to any fault of hers. I get the feeling a countersuit may en-sue..
It seriously is the sort of situation tradesmen dread; it's what kills them !

[Jeanied]

The suing will be the landlord and estate agent who let a damp house with dangerous electrics and a fake safety certificate methinks!

[snohare]

Ooh yes, Landlord ---->Sh!t
This is why to always use a tradesman with public liability insurance, if there is any conceivable safety aspect involved.

[Jeanied]

I, meanwhile, make soup to share with said neighbour and stir my cauldron from time to time (insert witchy cackle here )

[snohare]

So your neighbour's in the soup then ? !

...well, if I was her I would be in a stew !