I am at a customers to do a consumer unit swap amongst other bits and bobs and its one of those jobs where you end up fault finding and rectifying before you even strike a blow.
Well, fitting some replacement outside security lights to existing feeds off the lighting circuit, I was baffled to find that flipping the breaker at the board for both lighting circuits the feeds to the security lights were still live. Just so happens after digging around that in the loft, some bright spark has connected a 1.5mm T+E into a ceiling rose, fitted a plug to the other end and plugged it in to the ring circuit.
I quickly removed this and found the reason they had done this was because they had a broken neutral in the lighting circuit. Rather than find and fix this, they just tapped into the ring.
Well, fitting some replacement outside security lights to existing feeds off the lighting circuit, I was baffled to find that flipping the breaker at the board for both lighting circuits the feeds to the security lights were still live. Just so happens after digging around that in the loft, some bright spark has connected a 1.5mm T+E into a ceiling rose, fitted a plug to the other end and plugged it in to the ring circuit.
I quickly removed this and found the reason they had done this was because they had a broken neutral in the lighting circuit. Rather than find and fix this, they just tapped into the ring.
