Worrying myself silly being reported to social work after electricity check

[astao]

I had my yearly check on my electricity it’s by a private company not my local council.

I’ve been really unwell and had to pay for things I wouldn’t usually so I’m very skint until my big pay day tomorrow.

my electricity is in emergency credit at £3. My house is tidy ish. They came at half 8 this morning. So my 3 kids were eating breakfast and it was played in messy with their bowls and cereal bar wrappers. My little girl had been up in her room playing with Barbie’s so there were Barbie’s everywhere. The floors were hovered etc

the only thing is I’ve been unwell so the kitchen had so much washing to do. In my basket I had washing that was done to be put away. Then in the laundry basket had tonnes needing to be washed. And another basket waiting to be done at the machine. It wasn’t messy just a lot of washing. Everywhere else was tidy like my bathroom etc.

it’s just the washing mainly the sheer amount I never let that happen and the £3 emergency credit.

does anyone know if they’d report me to social work? Or am I insane?

I’ve just been so unwell my thoughts are a mess I’ve had a migraine for 3 days I’m getting a gp app today.

Thanks for clarifying.

I think I would like that. I have a few plug sockets and light switches that don’t work in and around the house. I’m assuming they fix them.

Yes, they do. It’s a process to make sure the electric is all functioning as it should and there are no fire safety risks, etc.

Sounds like my house. I'm a social worker.

I very much doubt they would be thinking anything more than getting their job done and possibly as a passing thought ‘oh it was a bit messy’ before moving onto the next job.

@astao

It is a perfectly normal house. No one's house is show home ready most of the time. I think to give yourself an idea of how truly awful some houses can get you need to look on youtube at the videos of cleaning a hoarder's house. You don't even have to watch the videos, just look at the thumb nails.

I have watched some because I was curious to know if someone blocked their toilet and then used the bath to pee and poop in and dumped all the used toilet roll on the floor of the bathroom how one would go about cleaning that up, like what is the process? Now I know.

I had my electricity check just recently and was dreading it because I’ve had a lot going on with a very sick cat amongst other things and have been far too stressed to do much housework. (Think Quentin Crisp levels of dust.) I apologised for the mess and the guy was really nice and said ‘you should see some of the places we go’ and mentioned things like dead rats and crack pipes (!) so you really don’t have anything to worry about @astao