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Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.

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I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. :eek:mg_smile:

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Ok as it explains the discolouration then it does not explain the damage to the earth pin, although as you say it's second hand plug this could be from before it was used on this item.... if indeed it is a 'metallic' paint as you suggest, it is possible the paint itself acts as a conductor, these metal paints do contain metal diffused into the paint itself, again it won't show the timeline here and could be a past issue..... what is worrying is the earth pin been hot, if all pins were hot then its probably heat conduction if it only effected 1 or 2 pins then you have to look deeper into the causes.
 
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There is no damage to the earth pin, it's paint. The socket (along with several others) is booked for replacement. This socket was previously replaced in February this year after an EICR. The pin was hot through heat conduction, the entire plug body was scorching, too hot to touch. I could feel the heat on the outside of the weatherproofing cover.
 
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telectrix said:
show us the rest, 15 more jagged holes?
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Haha no! Bit of patience and perhaps luck!

Smoke alarm circuit. Tested between each point to locate damaged leg. Narrowed it down to between downstairs bedroom & hall. Noticed when testing that cable had been brought through the ceiling right beside a joist (nothing special there) but on closer inspection could see it actually disappeared between joist and plasterboard. So did a bit of excavating and uncovered what's pictured!

OK maybe a fair bit of luck!
 
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Dave OCD said:
So were you able to take the screw out, cut off the damaged bit of cable then reconnect to a smoke alarm covering the hole at the same time ?
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Removed screw, cut off damaged section, fed other leg through joist and terminated. Wasn't worried about size of hole as was a new build and painter yet to finish but fortunately smoke detector covered it (just!).
 
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Called out last night, a toilet upstairs had leaked and come through some downlights. Removed the downlights to help them dry out and safely isolated the circuit. These downlights were only fitting last year and were not Fire rated, someone had also set up a nice beam for them to burn on and left all the splints of wood next to it in the ceiling to get a fire going. GU10 lamp, red hot.

Also no connections to the earths, all just cut off.

Done by a local spark.

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That's not clever, he obviously didn't want to recalculate to get the down lights looking even.
He obviously didn't hole test with a pointy screwdriver either.
'Bad electrician - in you basket'
 
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Advised the customer whoever they get back to come back to refit the downlights and re energise the circuit to at the very least move this. But to redo all and swap to fire rated.

Surely this is compramising the building structure aswell, good 1/3 of the beam been taken out I think!

All photos sent to insurance company as procedure when carring out a job for them, so if they ignore my advice and god forbit they have a fire then they will have void insurance I guess.
 
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That's neatly done, even used colour coordinated tape.

No problem with the lugs being bolted to get her, as you said that's the way the Americans do things.
Seen it done over here too.
 
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DPG said:
Out of interest, why were you asked to check it?
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It is for a client who provide support housing. They have just taken it on and wanted a check on the rewire. That ring final is a figure of eight with various cabling dating back to the mid sixties at its oldest point but the rest is actually okay why they left it who knows. First impressions of board I thought this will be okay.
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