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Out of curiosity how did you find it so accurately?? Could you see up behind the PB from the socket below?? Did the homeowner say the socket used to be higher up? How!! Please!
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There was a socket on the other side of the wall higher up, so I pulled that back box out and followed the cable
where it came back through I drilled a tiny hole, started chopping out and came across that jb.
I was I was that lucky but there's more damage on other side of wall
where it came back through I drilled a tiny hole, started chopping out and came across that jb.
I was I was that lucky but there's more damage on other side of wall
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I would suggest getting your lotto tickets on tomorrow night mate as you obviously have luck on your side!! It is satisfying to find and fix faults efficiently, especially when you only have a rough inkling of where the dodgy connection probably is.
I had a lost CPC on lighting CCT to find on Monday, wasn't looking forward to it at all....spent two hours checking fittings with no joy...then went up in loft to find some clever arse had boxed off a small 'room' and I couldn't get into the remaining roof space...back to van for jigsaw and eventually got into the dustiest loft I have ever been in..great....but found it within 10 mins...exactly the same issue as yours...CPC had snapped off in JB....
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In regards to the picture of a socket with a another set of T&E what is your issue with it? I was told that that is allowed if for instance you were adding a kitchen ring in to a house that previously didn't have one. Admittedly the situation I can was a conduit earth system.
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The pictures were from yesterday morning, I have yet to do a full test of the property, as it is occupied, I had to make it safe changing the 6mm and 10mm tails to 25mm, fit a new RCD for top board, terminate loose wires and turn off circuits with poor insulation resistance readings. I have a number of questions with the ring circuit you mention, extra cables being one of them most probably an entirely different circuit, which of course is a no-no.
You may notice the heat damage to the RCD lower neutral connection. This was a historic and continuing fault as part of the screw connection pulling on to the cable/bar was missing causing arcing.
You may notice the heat damage to the RCD lower neutral connection. This was a historic and continuing fault as part of the screw connection pulling on to the cable/bar was missing causing arcing.
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I reckon someone has seen that done in the back of a light switch and thought it was the way to go.
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Yep my exacto mundo thoughts too Andy!
Or maybe they thought it was a special metal plastic alloy compound!!
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Responded to a call out to replace the usual broken pendant and glossed over light switch at a tenants property. Went to knock power off to find the main RCCB switch was already in the "off" position. That's odd I thought. Anyway on removal of the lid I was confronted with this delight!Spoke to the tenant to find out if anyone had been tinkering. Apparently a few "months" earlier they had contacted the out of hours emergency electricians to restore their power. This crew were from the main contractor that service all the council properties in the city. To bypass a main switch is one thing but to connect the mains directly to an out going shower circuit is quite another. No one was scheduled to come back and rectify it either, as far as I was aware.
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RCD Tripping.
A leak to corpse.
Worked fine until the CU upgrade.
A leak to corpse.
Worked fine until the CU upgrade.
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