Doing a EICR prior to a CU change and was flummoxed as to why I had a break in continuity on a Ring.
Went round the property checked every single socket. Couldn’t see a problem. Asked customer if they’d had any work done and said nothing electrical no.
So ended up going back this week to spend the day trying to work out where the problem was.
Went up in the loft and was tracing the circuit around and notice there was an unusual diversion down to the airing cupboard.
Checked in there and nothing doing apart from the old switched fused spur for the immersion. Which wasn’t on the ring circuit.
Asked customer where the immersion had gone and they said it had been moved to the back of the utility in an unused alcove as they had a new tank fitted ready for me to install a solar diverter (which they had yet to ask me about).
So thought I’d just go and have a look and found this nicely positioned socket behind the tank, and Sod’s Law was the one that had the break in it.
So 6hrs wasted (3 of which was getting at the socket to rectify the issue) But it killed two birds with one stone as I converted it to a fused spur with flex outlet to run the solar iBoost from and restored the ring continuity.
All I can say is thank god I had the Wera Tool Check Plus as even my stubby slim screwdrivers were two big to get at the screws.
iBoost worked great once installed however. So a happy ending.
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