The house has so many bodged bits of work and the previous owner was a Joiner but I doubt that. The wood working in here is not finished off well, there are gaps and rough edges, nails protrude which I have sorted out and so on. The old kitchen fell apart and I've had the boiler and high pressure tank replaced. The pump decided not to work the other day and so as it was maintenance time anyway, I asked for it to be replaced which has duly been done but then the engineer wanted to show me something. There was no power to the socket where the timer was and I hadn't checked that myself, I had done all the usual checks with fuses, checked the time switch worked elsewhere and it did so surmised that the pump was gone. Oh dear, no it wasn't but too late the pump is now replaced. The bad news was that the cable behind the socket was all burnt up and then we found it was attached to the Immersion Heater. That had been used some years ago when the old boiler broke down and it wasn't wired correctly and had melted the cables and the MCB had gone which I hadn't noticed. So we have had to alter the wiring and disconnect the Immersion.
So once again, there's a problem that hadn't been picked up and once again it's a bodge and a bloody dangerous one at that. The cable was the wrong size and was run off of the socket which again is a big no no! FFS if it wasn't protected by the MCB we could have had a burn and that wouldn't have been good now! At least we know and at least we have a new pump anyway. The water is back up to pressure which is great too.
A nice chap doing the work and everything is now serviced and maintained for another year!
Just anther bodge cost to be added to the rest of the bodges!
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