[budkinboo]

My cupboard got flooded and my lawnmower got soaked and won't work it took the people over a week to see the damage then took my lawnmower away and now the people who caused damage said they had an electrician look at it and they can't find any water damage. But by then the lawnmower was dry

[smoothy]

What do Cupboards, Electricians and Lawnmowers have to do with each other? Cupboards don't use electricity, and electricians don't work on lawnmowers. And lawnmowers aren't stored in cupboards.

Perhaps if you reword the question more clearly.

[budkinboo]

Well smoothy my cupboard held water storage tanks till last year my plumber messed up and cut my water drainige pipes hence the water it took them over a week to fix the problem. And I don't know where you store your lawnmower but mine was in my cupboard as I have no outside storage. The plumber who came to fix the problem phoned an electrician to look at the lawnmower wich he took with him and apparently there is no water damage My question is still valid no matter the other circumstances surrounding the issue can an electricion tell if something is water damaged even when the water is no longer there

[smoothy]

I'm confused by why an Electrician was called to look at the lawnmower. Electricians do electrical wiring, mechanics fix things mechanical.

Maybe it's a local english dialect issue. What country do you live in as this is an international site and we have English speaking members from all over the world? And there can be significant differences between Australia, the UK, North America and the Caribbean in spoken and written English.

Where I live in the USA Cupboards are where your store plates, dishes, silverware, and food. You store your lawnmower in a shed or garage or your basement.

However what are called Cupboards in the USA...are called Sideboards in the UK, I have no idea what they are called in Austrailia or the Carribean, but lawnmowers don't come close to fitting in one.

But besides that....a lawnmower can sit out in the rain for a long time without problem, some people actually store them outside all year long....but they don't last more than a couple years if they are....but submerge them in water, water will get inside the engine, and into the oil as well...and if it does it won't dry out in a week. THen you get something called flash rust on exposed internal metal parts not intended to be exposed to water.

But most electricians don't know squat about mechanical things....thats why I question why an electrician was called for that.


Unless by chance you have one of the very few electric lawnmowers that was being looked at which woudl explain why an electrician might look at it, but not how it fit in a cupboard.

Not being argumentative....just perplaexed by a very odd choice of terminology and who was called to do what type of work.

[budkinboo]

Thank you that kind of answers my questin quite nicely because I thought the plumber was lying to me to get out of paying for it because he already told me he was liable for water damage. I am from scotland so can understand that we use slightly different words for different things my lawnmower was stored in my hall cupboard because it pretty much rains all the time here so I didn't want it to get soaked and breakdown (irony right) thank you smoothy for your answer

[Missouri Bound]

Usually even an electric lawnmower will not be harmed by water dripping or even pouring on it. When a device is submerged however, there may be some damage that cannot easily be fixed.

[Fr_Chuck]

Water damage, can stop a lawnmower from working. An electrician, that does household work, is not the person to look at it. Even if is an electric mower, since they would not know, the electronics.

You take the mower, to a repair shop, that specializes in mowers, they can find and tell you what is wrong. For a gas powered mower, water in the gas, and carburetor, can cause issues. Also, how long was it stored and not used.

Yes, international site, I agree cupboard is where dishes and dinnerware is stored... LOL.. I was wondering why you keep a lawnmower there