Weird Call Out

[R1CKY]

Got called to retrieve an old fella glass eye from the basin trap!

My mate got called out late at night to remove a cat from a chimney!

 

[Whyme]

when i was doin the social housing circ got a call saying "every now and then my fire makes a low buz like humming noise" the lady had left her pager (bet the younguns dont remember those) on top of the fire. it was behind an ornament and kept vibrating...social housings the best for stories i'll try and remember a few

 

[gastec]

some one rang me up once to change a light bulb.

 

[villa_tom]

when i was doin the social housing circ got a call saying "every now and then my fire makes a low buz like humming noise" the lady had left her pager (bet the younguns dont remember those) on top of the fire. it was behind an ornament and kept vibrating...social housings the best for stories i'll try and remember a few

I did my apprenticeship on social housing and working in it for 4 years and would hate to go back to it now.

I work in the private houses now and love it. Housing association work makes me cringe looking back now. I reckon atleast 95% of tenants live in squalor and 100% want a new boiler.

I used to be on call out for 7 days every 5 weeks and I hated it, the amount of calls we went to where it was made out to be worse or a tenant had lied was unreal. We used to get between 30-50 calls a week on call and I reckon only about 4 maybe 5 where actually emergencies. Makes me sick :-(

 

[Whyme]

social housing puts hair on yer chest, id recommend all new lads to have a stint working in it just so they can see everything else is better and stop moaning...

 

[RPG 80]

do quite a lot on social housing, changing tap inserts because it dripped last Shrove Tuesday just to keep the tenant happy

 

[villa_tom]

social housing puts hair on yer chest, id recommend all new lads to have a stint working in it just so they can see everything else is better and stop moaning...

Whenever I'm at work now and I hear a direct bloke having a moan, I tell them, to work in social housing for a week and you'll be begging to come back 🙂

 

[villa_tom]

do quite a lot on social housing, changing tap inserts because it dripped last Shrove Tuesday just to keep the tenant happy

Im a stubborn git with people like this though, I wouldn't do it. If anything in close the tap so tight that they couldn't turn it back on 🙂

 

[RPG 80]

some older people have a lot of time on their hands and if they think their taps dripping, its up there with breathing oxygen on their priories, id rather change the insert and get paid than get a call back two days later on the same work order.

 

[mountainman]

I don't mind social housing TBH, after thirty odd years in that sector I could only pinpoint a handful of scumbags.
I've come across many more patronising idiots with less humanity in the private sector.

 

[Whyme]

I don't mind social housing TBH, after thirty odd years in that sector I could only pinpoint a handful of scumbags.
I've come across many more patronising idiots with less humanity in the private sector.

i hate it. i was only doing it for five years on the local council and saw kids playing with needles, rats under baths, having to work with a council escort cos the people your dealing with have done terrible things . drugs, scum and filth. thats only my midlands experiance though...Is there a therapy thread lol.

 

[SafeGasInstall]

HA are all the same every where ..... I love the HA work , bring me on some and I/WE will smash 5 a week again

 

[julesverne]

went to a house no hot water . got there no water coming out of the taps. thought it might be airlocked. anyway went to look in the CSWC no cover on the top. and saw what looked like a magazine at the bottom.

pulled a copy of Razzle out. it was the teenage sons room.

haha

 

[negas]

Got called to retrieve an old fella glass eye from the basin trap!

My mate got called out late at night to remove a cat from a chimney!

recovered a 11 week old kitten from behind a class 2 inset on thursday pulled it out and it ran behind dish washer got paid and left them to fish out

 

[CXR100]

i work on social housing, showers not working (forgot to turn the isolator on , or turned it off thinking it was the light and left it off) ,heating not working ( stat turned down by kids playing about) , radiators ripped off walls, "leaking toilets" because of bad aiming! just to name a few! and the things ive found behind rads ect i couldent mention here!!!

 

[WHPES]

A guy called me out saying the heating wasn't coming on properly and some rooms were getting cold. He had a radio controlled thermostat and he had put it on the mantlepiece in the living room. Of course when the stove was on, the heating went off.

Phone call from some dizzy lass late one evening asking if there was some kind of white paint I could use on her avocado bathroom suite to change the colour. I'm not sure if this was a wind-up from a mate who had but his missus up to calling me as I can't believe anyone would be so clueless. Do worry for her though if it was genuine. Just had mental images of a coat of white Dulux on the bog.

Old dear once called me out saying boiler wasn't working. Found it wasn't switched on at the wall.

A friend who works as a piano tuner once found a massive stash of mucky mags in the bottom of an upright piano.

 

[Mutha]

Two of my latest were: 1- "My rads keep going off!" called out to see TRVs at first setting. 2- "Rads are only luke warm" Vokera stat at lowest setting.

 

[Ollieg]

I was once called out to a no heating no hot water job to find the boiler had no PCB, fan, gas valve or pump. Boiler stat etc were glued to the front!!! The owner had just bought the building which were offices. I quoted for a new boiler......
didn't get the job and didn't bill for my time. Won't make that mistake again.

 

[mickie]

nothing really weird..

been paid a few times to reset a card meter though and boiler..

 

[Wet dream]

Called out to no heating. Asked where RF room stat was couldn't find it later found out wife had but it in her bag and took it shopping !