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Thanks everyone
I’ve reported it

I don't know enough about electrics - I'd rather let my friend sort it out. Show me a nice cracked lintel, or a sagging roof and I can fix that no problem, but anything to do with electrics and I'm a big feardy cat.

Thing is he'll probably be fine when he's had time to process it when he gets home and he'll shrug and say that's what insurance is for. But I really did feel scared of calling him to say there was a problem.

Also, I think that is not right

@Orangeblossom78 Professor David Spiegelhalter on More Or Less on R4 this morning.
I managed to type that word for word as he said it - it's about 25 minutes in to the broadcast.

We noticed as soon as it started foaming, I only needed two teatowels to mop it up. It's on a tiled floor, on a concrete subbase, so there should be no way it has got into the electrics. I'm assuming at this point that the dishwasher is fucked, but surely it can't have done too much damage elsewhere?

Nothingiswrong you haven’t fucked the electrics for the house, you’ll have shorted the circuit the dishwasher is on. If everything is off it’s have taken out the main trip as well, but the only part actually affected is the circuit the dishwasher is on. There’s probably no lasting damage, water will have got into the electrics somewhere, either in the machine itself or into the plug socket which will have caused the short, this will probably sort itself out once it’s dry although it’s just possible you might need the plug, socket or a component replaced depending on where the short took place. Whatever has happened it’s only a very minor thing.

nothing as others have shown you are not the first this has happened to and you won't be the last.

Hopefully the electrical system will have done what it should, blown a fuse and tripped a switch and nothing that can't be sorted.

Your dh's reaction, in light of other responses, is an issue. Keep the GP appointment and take things from there, as I am aware this may all be too big at the moment to deal with.

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• and Nothing: no, it's not right to be frightened about calling him. He's not your bloody dad.

Hopefully your friend will look at it and look at it and go, silly bugger, you've blown the fuse and everything else is good, flip there you go. Catastrophising is a powerful weapon, used carelessly.

@nothingiswrong in your shoes, I'd have been miffed with him for leaving the bucket with fairy liquid in the bottom, in the first place. If it needed a soak, it needed hot soapy water. It's almost as if it was left there to trip you up. Washing out a food waste container is, of course, perfectly reasonable, given how disgusting they get. He's being an arse for belittling you.

Chances are, if your electrics are up to scratch, then various fuses and trip switches will have done their job and only the dishwasher will be a write off.

Epic armchair electrician crosspost, there!

Ds2 has declined a walk, this morning. I need some bits from Sainsburys for DS1 so rather than the local, I shall do the 3 mile round trip to the big one, this afternoon to get my step count up.

However I will share this gem with you all. I have some vocal Americans on my FB, we may have Boris, but they have Trump and I'm aware it is very messy and difficult, however this is pretty much top of the chart worthy.

Re Leicester sweat shops I saw an article that named the owners so went onto beta companies to research. What a tangled web, they have a turnover of 48k, for every company they have owned, keep starting new ones all very shady, men of straw my old manager would have said.

On top of that these shady men have claimed full furlough on their staff at god knows what per hour when the poor sods are working for £3 per hour. All this under the nose of inspectors, public health, Health and safety, local council for years.

Public health England bragged they had visited at the weekend, well thats ok, no-one was working then.

One commenter said she had worked in Crewe 40 years ago in a garment making factory, her conditions were better then than the poor people working today.

Trump has bought up all the remdesevir that we trumpeted was the way forward so none available until at least October. The company that make it is called Gilead you really could not make it up. Gilead roflmao

@Cattermole called it. Dishwasher likely fucked, but it's been on it's way out for a while - it's 7 years old, and this is a notoriously hard water area. Circuit breakers did the trick and he showed me how to reset everything.

I owe him a bottle of Jack Daniels.

The husband is a trickier solution, I think

Thanks Cattermole I will try and listen to that.

Thegreatwave America seems to be very strongly pro or anti masks, whereas it seems a lot more ambivalent here.
I believe the jury is out on if they are a good thing or a bad thing - I kind of lose track of the arguments.

Bwahahahaa I like that TheGreatWave

My electrickery catastrophe is that I once exploded a hoover. Literally exploded it. I'd hoovered up some wood-based cat litter and decided for reasons best known to myself to hoover up some water spillage on the kitchen floor.
I tell you what, it was...interesting, what happened. The bag exploded and burst the sides and the lid off the vacuum, and showers of wet sawdust shot in the air and then burned out the motor.

You are an amateur in the field, Nothing. Bow down before me in the sphere of fucking up domestic appliances.

I shall bow down indeed.

I once checked some drawings for a new steel framed building, 2 storeys and signed them as correct.

They were not correct. Imagine trying to put a meccano set together when half the pieces are slightly the wrong length. That took a LOT of fixing... all the first floor beams were 90mm too short to fit between the columns...

scottish deaths (all causes) are now below 5 year average ... I wonder if she'll move on from eliminated covid to eliminating DEATH.

@torydeathdrug - now we are in Terry Pratchett territory.

I electrocuted DH at the start of lockdown, with over enthusiastic light switch bleaching. Erm, oops. 😳

I shall bow down before you though, @Cattermole, while also seeking shelter from the falling cat litter beneath a solid object 😂

God I have not cleaned a light switch in ages, I was doing every other day at the start.

I’m not sure I’ve cleaned a light switch since we moved into this house nearly 3 years ago...

DH banned me from doing it for health and safety reasons. He refuses to touch any switches if he sees me wielding a spray bleach bottle now

Still, it all cuts down on the housework!

Me neither, drviving

I just give 'em a quick wipe if they look greasy from all the finger marks

@NothingIsWrong my washing machine gave up the ghost spectacularly days before lockdown. It had been limping on for a year but then the thermostat went and the glass heated up hot enough to blow baby elephants, my clothes came out minuscule 😂 and it fried the circuits on that side on the kitchen. I feared the worst, but the sparky from the HA came out and said it just happens if an appliance overheats and it took him all of about 8 seconds with a screwdriver to fix. And I got a new washing machine.

I was married to a complete bellend, but even he laughed when I put bubble bath in the jacuzzi to wash it - opened the bathroom door half an hour later and the foam tower was taller than me!