Yesterday while working near the back of the workroom, I kept detecting the smell of something cooking. Since it was lunch time, and I was working near the kitchen, I thought that someone's lunch was was odorus. Then my designer and I decided that the person who heated her pizza in the toaster oven must have burned it a bit or she left the oven on too long and some crumbs burned. Sometime later, the front 2 display coolers and everything else on that wall went out. I went back to check the circuit breaker, and the "machine room," which is located a wall away from where I had been working, was very smokey and smelled of burned plastic, or rather, it smelled like an electrical burn. While my first impulse was to call 911 (we do have to always consider that we have other tenants in the building), I called the guy who had done most of our renovations. He is also the husband of the designer who was working yesterday. He called an electrician, then the husband came and checked everything out before the electrician arrived. It took the electrician about 5, 10 at the most, minutes to locate and repair where a line had been improperly repaired at some previous time with tape, and it had apparently burned through the electrical tape, and had fallen onto another wire.
$70 for 5-10 minutes work. Our children should study to be electricians, not doctors or lawyers!
Of course, $70 could be considered cheap compared to the loss of the building, or far worse, lives.
$70 for 5-10 minutes work. Our children should study to be electricians, not doctors or lawyers!
Of course, $70 could be considered cheap compared to the loss of the building, or far worse, lives.
