Remember that problem I had with electricity abstraction?

[Johnny Mac]

Around this time last year I had to call out an electrician to investigate a problem i had with my lighting wiring. 4 out of 6 rooms had no power to the lights for 3 days. He immediately suspected foul play regarding the upstairs neighbors (I live in a grd floor flat). When i asked if they had disturbed any wiring to my flat, they denied it. 1 hour later it all came back on. Anyway to cut a long story short i had to use a solicitor to try and kick Metropolitan Housing Trust into action as they are the free holders and 'manage' the flats on in my building. All I needed was access to my wiring to repair, if necessary any damage that had been caused but got no where as they would not co-operate. Every electrician I spoke to regarding this problem said the an abstraction was the most likely cause of this. As did the supply companys. Every woman i spoke to involved with this dispute said they wouldn't do that as their so nice. Not ranting against women but in some cases if someone doesn't understand how something works then they have no valid opinion. The two who lived above me were two Croation Lesbians. I know you couldn't make it up, plus one had a British surname, so work that one out. Anyway 2 grand legal fees later I've still got a dangerous electrical problem. The Lesbians have moved out and the new neighbor although its not her fault, thinks its not true as they were so nice and wouldn't grant me access to repair the faults.  Great eh!  :roll:

[Ratrod]

I always thought lesbians didn't screw guys.

[horsehead]

That wins...this thread is now closed!

[ChunkyMunky]

*agreed*

[Philly Q]

When you first told that story I was convinced my (then) new upstairs neighbours were doing the same to me, as they seemed to be forever clanking about and it sounded like they were pulling up the floorboards. 

(They're also from eastern Europe so I thought maybe it's something they teach in school over there.  Sorry, sorry, sorry  :oops: )

Anyway, once I got my next lecky bill it was perfectly normal, so I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions.

Sorry to hear your problem's not sorted out Johnny.  Presumably your new neighbour is innocently still robbing your electricity.  Hasn't she noticed if her bills are suspiciously low?

[gwEm]

i remember that problem... i half think someone is stealing our gas at the moment :/ its a pay-as-you-go meter and costing us a kings ransom this winter!

[Dmoney]

can you go on holiday for a while and turn all the breakers off in your house? wouldnt that stop any electricity going to another place? then when the new tenant above you starts complaining half her stuff wont switch on you can explain to her why.

[Johnny Mac]

Sorry i should have explained;

The electricity bills when i moved here were higher than when i sussed out what was going on and confronted them, then they dropped 50% at least! No the new neighbor isn't tapping it but the wiring will still have damage from when it was tapped.

All the breakers went off each day I left for work after i sussed her.

My brother and me had the mother of all arguments with the pair and 4 of their friends too. 6 women v 2 men, it was mental! The manipulation she was using just strengthened my case as she actually said, right out of the blue, 'Did you just call me a freak?' I said 'no you said that not me' Anyway they're is loads of it, the bottom line is even with a solicitor fighting your corner, the housing management didn't want to get involved. I think because its a political nightmare for them, so they hoped it would just go away. I'm a lease holder here and the Lesbians were on a shared ownership scheme. Didn't they do well!  :o

[ailean]

I remember, sorry to hear you still have an issue :(

[Will]

Can you not suggest that they be present when the electrician inspects? Sorry to hear its still causing you a problem

[dave_mc]

yeah, i remember that... still not sorted? :(

[_tom_]

Bloody hell I remember that from ages ago, cant believe its still going on. Making me paranoid now as I'm moving into my own place in September, allready worrying about leccy bills and stuff :P

[Johnny Mac]

It never got resolved and after dumping 2 grand on it in legal fees, I just had to drop it as it would have cost 700 an hour + VAT for council in court and without evidence which my housing management company were hell bent on preventing me from getting, it wouldn't have had any clout and could have bankrupt me. It's load of bollocks it really is. I've actually heard the wiring shorting out and I was still dismissed as delusional.
I suppose I've just got to wipe my mouth and move on.

[FELINEGUITARS]

Would the new tenants not be worried that it could start a fire and burn their flat down with them in it.
And by blocking your electrician they are going to have no-one to blame if a fire is started by bad wiring

That usually gets their attention.

[Johnny Mac]

Would the new tenants not be worried that it could start a fire and burn their flat down with them in it.
And by blocking your electrician they are going to have no-one to blame if a fire is started by bad wiring

That usually gets their attention.

Yes we tried to explain this to the new occupiers. According to the lass who bought the place and her mother, the girls they bought the flat from wouldn't do such a thing as they were so 'nice'. I expained that people who are selling something generally are. They wanted to sue Metropolitan Housing Trust, the building management company about the terrible state of the squeeking floors. Which had been lifted up to gain access to the wiring and not been correctly fixed down again. See what I mean about women making judgements on things that they no nothing whatsoever about. They couldn't even see the joined up thinking in the floors/wires and that if we worked together we would have all got somewhere. By this time I had lost the will to live. Fire risk I said, no didn't happen according to this ignorant middle aged bint. The electrician i called out said this is a fire risk and can easily be retified, I'll pay for it all I said. No, they wouldn't do that, they were nice girls said the 'expert'. The electricity suppliers have said our kilowatt usage has dropped 50% in a 1/4 of a year since we confronted our neighbors about this.  No was the response. I was into this by 2 grand at this stage and then got knocked back to square one. By some stupid tart. Oh well if her obese princess dies in a fire then I'll get the chance to say I told you so.

MHT said they were going to send a surveyor around. I took a day off work. He never showed. Then they claimed it was all ok as they sent a sparks to do a pulse test on my circuits. He told me that the test he was performing wouldn't show any spurs or evidence of them on my wiring, but MHT said that it was safe. Then some other surveyor I'd never heard of let alone met claimed my wiring was safe. The only way that can be proved is to expose it but for some reason MHT would not exercise the power they had to gain entry into the flat while the lesbians still lived there. What ever those reasons are I'll never know but I have my theorys.