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Frightening! Heed all advice about switching this off and isolating. I have seen 2 rings connected together by error - so switching one off didn't. This needs careful inspection, testing and rectification.
 
No update yet then?. If it's a flat that was devided up from the main house at one stage.Maybe you are on someone else's supply.. Yippee free lecky.Is everything else in the house off when the main switch goes off?
 
This reminds me of the time I got a nasty belt whilst changing a socket in a flat.
I switched off at main switch and my radio went off in the kitchen.
That was the amount of dead testing I did. LoL
I then took socket off wall in lounge and got a belt. Wtf.
After checking the precious tenant had drilled a hole through the back of the service head and passed a 2.5mm from service fuse to busbar feeding one of the breakers. Bypassing the meter completely.
This obviously left the whole busbar and therefore any breakers in the on position with voltage outgoing on the live conductors but turning off the main switch would cut out the neutral leaving nothing working in flat giving the impression it has been isolated.
I put it down to someone growing or for some other reason trying to extort electricity.
I also did similar thing many many years ago. Switched off all sockets, radio went off. So started to work on a socket, yep got a shock, it was on Economy seven! Time clock out of sinc. It was an old storage heater point. Ahh well
 
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