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to know. It was my birthday during that time and they surprised me by singing happy birthday and giving me a cake.” The deliveries came to an end when shielding finished and the electricians are now adjusting to getting back to work under the continuing coronavirus rules. “We did our last delivery
on 31 July,” said Elaine. “We are now doing
emergencies and small electrical works that just need one person and are single, short jobs. We can change a socket but we can’t work on rewiring or anything that takes much longer. “We’ve got a process where the tenant phones in, we assess the job and ask if there are any issues – the usual COVID protocols to see if they have symptoms or have been in contact with anyone with it. We’ll then go out and try to fix the issue if we can. “We’ve been working on
void houses and we’re able to do more work there because you can be in a room on your
own doing electrical work, so we’ve been doing a lot of work on these properties, along with minor repairs and emergencies.”
Although the electricians
are now back at work in their usual jobs, Elaine will be ready to deploy them into the community again if the shielding rules and strict lockdown are reintroduced in the future. She said: “If everything is
locked down again I’m sure we’ll be in better place to organise it more quickly because of the lessons we’ve learned from last time. “We’ve got the availability of workers with vans and if they can’t do their normal work then they’re available to do whatever else we need. “We’ve had a lot of positive feedback from the residents and lot of positive vibes from the guys who were involved, saying they were going to miss it. It helped for everyone to have something to do and to be useful, instead of sitting at home. “It was a massive team effort and I’m really proud of everyone involved.”
Te team borrowed trolleys from a supermarket to move the deliveries
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