Hi All
I have a customer reporting getting a shock from their electric shower, I have to go there tomorrow to investigate. Can anyone give me a heads up on what tests to carry out to prove if this is the case.
Thanks
...when I was poking around in the spaghetti of my mate's CU. My little finger happened to brush across the two screws holding the incoming cables above the main switch (see photo).
Just wondering why this happened. Shouldn't there be some sort of protection against accidentally touching live...
Had a call out today
Client said they are getting static shocks from a laminate floor :eek:
Between the floor and alloy frame forming the offices
Found that the floor had been laid on top of old carpet with nylon in it
Client so peeved with flooring contractor
Advised to lift flooring and relay...
Hi All, l have been pondering this in my head for absolutely ages and need an answer, if possible, to help me grasp this subject.
I understand that a person receives an electric shock when touching both a live conductor 230V, and an earth/neutral conductor 0V at the same time, because the live...
Hi, a customer of mine phoned me the other night to say she had just touched the water inlet pipe to the shower and had a shock off it (she was in the shower at the time!)
I've been and looked at the job today and can't work out what is going on. I get a reading of 1 - 2 volts off the pipe...
hi everybody. I'm new, so please excuse me if i do any thing wrong. My daughter had electric shock in the shower. I switched off the consumer unit., but it was still alive. so we had to pull her off the chrome hose which she was grabbing. we had a shared loop from our next door neighbour. He...
Hi can any one help.
Was called to a job where the glass shower curtain had become live (230V) .
this was caused because the person who fixed it screwed through the old 6mm shower cable which was running up the wall into the loft where it was terminated into a JB because it was no longer...
Hot Tub shock
:confused:Been to look at a customers hot tub today to assure him it was protected by an RCD which it was.
This installation was done a couple of years ago, with a dedicated 20 amp supply, and ran in armoured.
Its a PME supply.
No earth to water which will be sorted asap.
He has...
:confused:Been to look at a customers hot tub today to assure him it was protected by an RCD which it was.
This installation was done a couple of years ago, with a dedicated 20 amp supply, and ran in armoured.
Its a PME supply.
No earth to water which will be sorted asap.
He has informed me...
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I Started a rewire today connected 6 lights and switches in different rooms when I connected the circuit to c/u I noticed I had a fault removed the fuse to change sw/live with netural
and got a belt
the system is single phase tt
the only thing I can think would it be a borrowed...
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Got a call out today from a woman who said she is getting shocks of some of her kitchen sockets, She lives in a block of flats and when i checked her cu's (she has 2) Nothing protected by rcd (told her she needs upgrading) one cu was wired with micc which just happened to have the sockets on...
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