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Firstly, I deliberately use terms like earth instead of cpc and ring main instead of ring final circuit etc to make it clear if its not already that I am not a spark.
So doing some plastering in the kitchen and removed a single socket adjacent to an FCU for another socket below. I haven't absolutely tested this yet but I'm fairly sure the earth in the ring is broken at that point. THe ring coming in goes straight to the socket and whilst N and L are connected onwards in the ring the earth is not.
It was done a long time ago (1980s probably). Still seems like poor workmanship to me but is it dangerous if every socket on the ring neverthless has access to an earth assuming there is only one such break. Would it be enough to fail a landlord check?
Whether or not, and even though its so old, it still strikes me a shoddy and lazy workmanship, very easy to fix and the customer at the time would not have known and not have cared until a comparison test of kettles started a fire under a joist....
So doing some plastering in the kitchen and removed a single socket adjacent to an FCU for another socket below. I haven't absolutely tested this yet but I'm fairly sure the earth in the ring is broken at that point. THe ring coming in goes straight to the socket and whilst N and L are connected onwards in the ring the earth is not.
It was done a long time ago (1980s probably). Still seems like poor workmanship to me but is it dangerous if every socket on the ring neverthless has access to an earth assuming there is only one such break. Would it be enough to fail a landlord check?
Whether or not, and even though its so old, it still strikes me a shoddy and lazy workmanship, very easy to fix and the customer at the time would not have known and not have cared until a comparison test of kettles started a fire under a joist....
