Electrical Report on My House

[Octopus]

Back to the op.

Have you got a copy of the report?

If so, Google best practice guide no. 4 and take a read.

Happy reading

 

[Deleted member 9648]

Why the dislike Risteard?

 

[Tony Harte]

Ok thanks guys for replies. So as I understand it, so correct me if I am wrong. So any current in a circuit instead of returning down the neutral wire to the fuseboard, if there is a neutral earth short, it could return down the earth wire instead (because ultimately the earth and neutral are joined together before they enter the house) and because that is smaller in size, it potentially couldn’t handle this current and could overheat causing a fire risk?

Oh and btw the electrician has been here this afternoon and found the problem. It took him a couple of hours and he had to take a few light fittings down to work out how the wire ran around the house but by a process of elimination he tracked it down to a faulty light fitting. He showed me on his meter that when he removed it from the lighting circuit it cleared the short. When he took it apart the neutral wire had the insulation damaged on it, where it was shorting to the body of the metal fitting. He even fixed the fitting for us!

So we are all good apart a few C3’s.

Thanks again

 

[Tony Harte]

Back to the op.

Have you got a copy of the report?

If so, Google best practice guide no. 4 and take a read.

Happy reading

Thanks I have a handwritten copy that he showed me. He was entering it on an iPad and said he will send me the report once he has finished typing it up.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Excellent. Sounds like yr spark knows what he is about.

 

[Risteard]

Why the dislike Risteard?

Fat fingers to put it bluntly. Apologies for that. I had intended to hit "agree". I do dislike how close together all the positive and negative icons are though!

 

[telectrix]

Fat fingers to put it bluntly. Apologies for that. I had intended to hit "agree". I do dislike how close together all the positive and negative icons are though!

beer goggles don't help.

 

[telectrix]

Thanks I have a handwritten copy that he showed me. He was entering it on an iPad and said he will send me the report once he has finished typing it up.

good result.

 

[Risteard]

beer goggles don't help.

Nor whiskey goggles!

 

[telectrix]

Nor whiskey goggles!

how the other half lives ! whiskey before dinner. my flabber is gasted.

 

[paul291277]

Fat fingers to put it bluntly. Apologies for that. I had intended to hit "agree". I do dislike how close together all the positive and negative icons are though!

And I dislike how close together all the positive and negative terminals are! Thats been my excuse for a few small fires anyway

 

[telectrix]

i'm surprised at you lot of young sprogs. my 70 year old eyes and fingers can differentiate between the blobs. why can't yours'. come on; it don't need a 5 week course to sort this out. just go to spec savers.