Ring Main with sockets not working

[telectrix]

Yes. Its double beers on a sunday

double beers my arse. double single malt.

 

[Pretty Mouth]

How do you know that the dodgy sockets are definitely on the same circuit at the working 5?

 

[buzzlightyear]

single malt bottle .

Glenfidage bottle one .

 

[gazdkw82]

Take every socket off and work methodically around. Disconnect all conductors and continuity check using a wonder lead. Sketch the layout on some paper as you go.

It's surprising how it makes more sense looking at it from that perspective.

My suspicious would be a ring within a ring via a JB.

 

[TheReturnOfHightower]

you didn’t miss the first question of fault finding in your haste?

1) what did you do when It stopped working?

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

Id just take teletrix up on his offer, find it quicker and learn the besr way of finding this kind of fault for the future. No shame is gettting experiance in to learn from and help

 

[davesparks]

Take every socket off and work methodically around. Disconnect all conductors and continuity check using a wonder lead. Sketch the layout on some paper as you go.

It's surprising how it makes more sense looking at it from that perspective.

My suspicious would be a ring within a ring via a JB.

Methodical working is the key yes, but there's rarely a need to take all of the sockets off.
Take a guess at where the middle of the circuit is and split it there, then fidn which half is faulty. Carry on splitting the faulty section in half until you find it.

 

[telectrix]

what he says^^^^^.

 

[driverman]

What made the customer call you in the first place? Had they been doing any work of some sort?
Any building work or similar within the house? Or did the sockets just pack up working for no particular reason?

 

[Gary latto]

Be interesting to find outcome when sorted

 

[DPG]

Be interesting to find outcome when sorted

I don't think we will.