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so did winstink churchmouse but him in the moostrap set byuy them meerkats, katching miggotts.
 
My near neighbour asked me to have a look at his new LED lights, not both coming on, now in a Wago junction box and working.


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Recent Installation of sockets and two ramp supplies, looks like he ran out of swa and decided to use some t&e in tube instead, it's not ideal but instead of a drop to the ramps he decided to add a spur and throw it on the floor into a low socket.
 

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Second time in as many weeks I’ve encountered a pipe jockey trying to make my life difficult.

10/10 for ingenuity but I don’t recall that being a recognised method to earth the armour of SWA. In case you can’t see it. They had cut all bar 6 strands and terminated them into the earth terminal on the switched fused spur. 🙄

I had to decommission this as it was supplying a workshop running a table saw, pillar drill, lathe, dust extraction system as well as the usual lights and sockets. Funny enough it kept blowing the 13A fuse.

Fortunately there was an unused cooker circuit that I was able to use to supply power to the workshop instead. And I glanded the armour properly! 😂

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As part of a quick 'refurb' (ie changing socket fronts) for a client, I did what I thought would be a simple extend surface socket (on RFC) from skirting up to flush in wall above.

Tugged the cables to get extra length, and this appeared from beneath the floor:

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Not only were the wires just twisted together and taped over, they also managed to add the two new cables feeding the socket as a figure of 8 from the existing RFC🤦‍♂️

Just goes to show - would not have been detected by testing when I get to changing the board, unless I'd done a ring continuity test at this specific socket, which would have been 0.001 I'd guess...

R1+R2 might have been a little different than on the rest of the ring, but likely not enough to throw up a concern.
 
I bet the seller has similar morels to the guy that popped round at 3am and “borrowed “ my cordless drill from the boot of my pickup.
 

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