BISHOPDALE SPARKY LABELS EVERY SWITCH "MAYBE" AND PISSES OFF TO RANGIORA
Homeowner now flicks switches like she's playing pokies.
A Bishopdale homeowner is living in what she calls "a fucking lucky dip" after her electrician labelled every switch in the house "maybe" and knocked off for the week.
Kaylee Frostick has been mid-reno on her Greers Road place since August. The sparky — known on site as Macca — turned up Thursday and ran new switchboards through the kitchen and hallway. He stuck a Dymo label on each one reading MAYBE. Then he left a voicemail saying he was onto a job in Rangiora, sorted Tuesday.
"Flicked one this morning trying to make toast," Frostick told The Daily Yarn. "Garage door opened. Flicked another one — jug came on upstairs. I don't have a jug upstairs. I do now apparently."
A bloke from the same crew, contacted at the BP on Harewood Road mid-pie, defended Macca as "a good cunt who's just flat tack." The labels were "a placeholder, ay." Asked when Macca was back, he chewed for a bit and said "Tuesday." Asked which Tuesday, he said "the productive one."
Master Electricians said the labelling was not compliant and an inspector would have a look. The inspector has a clipboard. Frostick reckons that's the part Macca will find most upsetting.
Frostick has taped a sign over the switchboard reading DO NOT TOUCH UNLESS YOU WANT A SURPRISE. The hot water cylinder has been off since Friday. She thinks. Could be the heat pump. Could be the neighbour's.
Kaylee Frostick has been mid-reno on her Greers Road place since August. The sparky — known on site as Macca — turned up Thursday and ran new switchboards through the kitchen and hallway. He stuck a Dymo label on each one reading MAYBE. Then he left a voicemail saying he was onto a job in Rangiora, sorted Tuesday.
"Flicked one this morning trying to make toast," Frostick told The Daily Yarn. "Garage door opened. Flicked another one — jug came on upstairs. I don't have a jug upstairs. I do now apparently."
A bloke from the same crew, contacted at the BP on Harewood Road mid-pie, defended Macca as "a good cunt who's just flat tack." The labels were "a placeholder, ay." Asked when Macca was back, he chewed for a bit and said "Tuesday." Asked which Tuesday, he said "the productive one."
Master Electricians said the labelling was not compliant and an inspector would have a look. The inspector has a clipboard. Frostick reckons that's the part Macca will find most upsetting.
Frostick has taped a sign over the switchboard reading DO NOT TOUCH UNLESS YOU WANT A SURPRISE. The hot water cylinder has been off since Friday. She thinks. Could be the heat pump. Could be the neighbour's.