Yes, that was actually something making me uncomfortable too, the bonding of it all.
I need to have another look at it, I'm not sure if the internal panels are plastic or thin steel. My assumption was insulation sandwiched between thin steel. Water, steel and electric, what could possibly go...
Okay gotcha.
Yes it's a TT system, but a good reading, was around 6.5ohms iirc, though it's a very old installation as you can see, so the rod has well and truly bedded in.
There isn't an option to carry out any further work at present as the chap is elderly, and dare I say, lives in squalor. It...
I realise it's a bit hard to see given the pictures.
Basically, the ELCB has been used to switch both permanent live straight from the meter and switched live from the network operated radio teleswitch for economy 7 tariff or similar, the neutral isn't even connected to it.
Needless to say it...
Had a call out to a tripping issue yesterday.
I found that the very old RCD was faulty, but upon inspection something didn't look right regarding the routing of tails.
Hi,
I have a client with a small caravan site, approx 5 hookups.
His old toilet block was nothing much more than an old shed.
He's now 'upgraded' to using an old walk-in freezer, no wheels, but was just lifted onto blocks from a trailer.
He has kitted it out with 4 toilets and one shower which...
And my introduction to the forum starts with a Yorkshire Housing property. This was a consumer unit in a house whose tenant was a disabled individual. They requested a new shower room be fitted with a power shower by YH and the result was this loose neutral.
I was rather concerned it took YH...
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