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Was that the same muppet who was unable to detect this fault recently?quoted options for dual RCD board or RCBO. customer had a quote for new CU a few months ago, but the guy said the house needed a total rewire as well. . muppet.
who knows? customer has been in the house 11 months. been getting shocks from soon after moving in.Was that the same muppet who was unable to detect this fault recently?
been today and fitted a RCBO CU. ( fitted above cabinet with cables dug out higher up to give some wriggle room and get all sheaths inside CU enclosure.) the thin earth wire went behing the old CU, where it was joined to a 6.0mm bonding cable. other end of which was attached to the water intake, as expected. but..... gave it a tug and 3 ft, of it came out of the capping for the water pipes where it had been snipped. last week my reading to the water pipe was 0.84 ohms, apparently it was picking up from the gas at boiler and/or parallel paths through the cpc's. rejoined cable and wander lead got the R to water down to 0.27 ohms. IR tests gave worst reading of 47Meg. r1, r2, rN on ring all good. Zs readings well within limits. Happy sparks and happy customer. 5 hours on site with a mate doing the donkey work and fitting a socket for new washing machine.Just out of interest, where did the other (thin) earth wire go?
nah. he's chained them up, knowing I was coming.Nice one Tel. Good to see a decent outcome for the OP.
Did you have his alloys?
Well done Tel.... you sound like every housewife's dream !!been today and fitted a RCBO CU. ( fitted above cabinet with cables dug out higher up to give some wriggle room and get all sheaths inside CU enclosure.) the thin earth wire went behing the old CU, where it was joined to a 6.0mm bonding cable. other end of which was attached to the water intake, as expected. but..... gave it a tug and 3 ft, of it came out of the capping for the water pipes where it had been snipped. last week my reading to the water pipe was 0.84 ohms, apparently it was picking up from the gas at boiler and/or parallel paths through the cpc's. rejoined cable and wander lead got the R to water down to 0.27 ohms. IR tests gave worst reading of 47Meg. r1, r2, rN on ring all good. Zs readings well within limits. Happy sparks and happy customer. 5 hours on site with a mate doing the donkey work and fitting a socket for new washing machine.
I’m not sure about UK way of doing things and I’m not sure exactly how y’all heat your water but in the US we have water heaters with 2 immersion heating elements and I went to a similar call and 1 element was bad and when you touched any sink, spickets, etc you would get shocked and as above with just socks on your giving it a path to ground. Again we are very different in many ways of how electrical is doneI bought my house 11 months ago with no issues, after a few months everything metal in the kitchen starting giving me an electric shock when touched. After a few more months this stopped on its own, and has recently started again. We realised that it only happens when not wearing shoes, if that helps. Any help and advice would be much appreciated. Thankyou.
in this case, the house had no earth whatsoever. there were several faults in the installation.I’m not sure about UK way of doing things and I’m not sure exactly how y’all heat your water but in the US we have water heaters with 2 immersion heating elements and I went to a similar call and 1 element was bad and when you touched any sink, spickets, etc you would get shocked and as above with just socks on your giving it a path to ground. Again we are very different in many ways of how electrical is done
We are quite different yeah... like we don't have "spickets" here... well, not anywhere south of Birmingham anyway....1 element was bad and when you touched any sink, spickets, etc you would get shocked .... Again we are very different in many ways of how electrical is done
initially used a socket tester to give an idea. showed fault , so then opened CU and no 6mm to earth bar. tugged on the 6mm from MET and saw the other end looped round behind CU.What a great thread. We don't often get a thread where a forum member has gone around and can then give good feedback. Well done Tel!
Completely agree with @pc1966 . How scary is it that an initial electrician went round and didn't find anything! Frustrating too as you hear this sort of story too often!
So when you initially did a Zs at one of the sockets @telectrix did you get a reading? I'm guessing you must have done as the gas was bonded. Did you discover the 6mm earth was just looped back to the MET by testing or could you just see it?
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