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    No earth from cable head to semi detached property

    Hi all. I have been rewiring a property and almost ready to hand over back to client. It's now been found that the ze is 18 ohms. Electricity supplier has been informed and they want to arrange running new cable from next door to give me earth. What can I do in the meantime. I think I shouldn't...
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    No Earth available at the cut out?

    Hi need to clarify as quickly as possible a situation? No clear main earth terminal at the incoming suppy? small bit of stranded remains off the cable sheath but nut soething to connect to. Definatly no earth rod! I want to split the incoming supply after the meter via 100amp link blocks to...
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    no earth to consumer unit? photos

    Hi all, I posted a message a few weeks ago as an electrical report I'd had done on my house said there was no earth to the consumer unit. A couple of you asked for a photo to see exactly what the situation was. Hopefully this photo is ok! If anyone could help with this I'd be very grateful...
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    No Earth Bond, was I right to pass?

    A customer had recently purchased a brand new class 1 fan assisted flame effect electric fire in perfect working order, one that looks like a cast iron wood burner but is made of MDF painted black. It failed the earth bond test repeatedly but past the Leakage test. As the metal casing was...
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    gu10 230v no earth

    Hi, went to fit 3 downlights today customer purchased them. And they had no earth. i am correct in thinking that downlights metal surely should be earthed? They had the gu10 lampholder then plastic junction box attached. No earth. I drilled the corner and put and attached a cpc, just found it...
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    No Earth in Red Telephone Box

    I've recently been asked to fit a piece of electrical equipment in a red telephone box which has been purchased from BT. The new electrical equipment must be earthed but the existing electrical installation from the cut out in the telephone box is double insulated with no earth provision. I...
  7. Goody

    Absolutely no earth for lighting circuit.

    I have replaced a re-wireable CU with a 6 way single RCD board. The lighting circuit uses a single stranded phase & neutral cables in a metallic conduit and the conduit (supposedly) acts as earth conductor, but although I could see the conduit at the ceiling roses, I couldn’t see the presence of...
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    No Earth

    Just been to look at a job. The house has got no earth at the mains. I opened a socket and checked the earth which was present. I carried out a Zs test at a socket and got no earth reading. I checked the lighting circuit that had no earth. The board was a very old style (asbestos in the fuse...
  9. Goody

    No earth bonding to the water.

    Been to a property and noticed that the main earth connection to the CU MET is only by a 2.5 mm blue cable. Now, that’s an as easy-peasy job to fix but the trouble is, a 10 mm cable connects only the gas and no sight of bonding to the water. It’s a non RCD board with only MCB’s and couldn’t see...
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    No earth on wall lights

    What's the score on no earth on metallic wall lights? Rewire I'm doing, customer doesn't want them taken out because recently been plastered. Looked at cables and they are 2 core flex - no earth. Is there anyway I can make the wires class 2? Ie enclose wires someway? Only small space though. Not...
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    Submain from next door, no earth!

    I went to replace the CU at my parents house last week (Wylex re-wireable). The live and neutral look to be about 16mm twin (not t&e) and come through the wall from next door. As they weren't home I have no idea what the earthing arrangement is there. My parents house is still earthed via the...
  12. S

    lighting cct no earth

    Went to a client the other day to fit two wall lamps, had to walk away as they were metal fittings and they had no earth on lighting cct. told customer it would be best to rewire said cct or fit ceramic or plastic light fittings is this acceptable as she did not want me to rewire. thanks and...
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    Down lights install to lighting with no earth

    Is it non compliant to install 240 V downlights to a lighting circuit with no earth when no earth connection is required at the downlight. A client is having his ceiling lowered and wants spots fitting which would be fire rated. Any advice appreciated. thanks
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    no earth at lights

    customer has all metal light fittings and switches but old wiring circuit l&n no cpc doesnt want rewire as high decor spec ie solid mahogony floors victorian plaster and coving walls an ceilings can i just change switches to plastic and chandeliers to low voltage downlights or pendants and issue...
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    No earth

    Hi please can someone assist me.. i have started an inspection on a control circuit and noticed they have not run in an earth on a control circuit they run in a 3 core cable but taped up the green and yellow as live cable. the cable is run under ground from the distribution and is terminated...
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    Kitchen downlights have no earth - how to tell if double insulated or not?

    Hello all Council is here for the last day of full re-wire but there is one small problem with my kitchen eyeball downlights. There are five downlights (roughly 20 years old) in the kitchen which I'm told are not earthed and therefore will have to be disconnected, pendant or strip light put up...
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    No earth wires

    Hi guys passed my 2391 six months ago and have been inspecting friends and family for free to gain experiance. Got my first paying job, got to fuse board and noticed no earth wires for lighting circuits, checked out a couple of light fittings and same here. how do I go about testing these...
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    Table lamp with no earth..

    Just the other day a friend of mine who is a store manager at a big DIY retail store had a customer return a table lamp. It had a big metal body to it but only a 2 core flex to the plug top, it had no earth. He asked me what I thought and I said it is very odd that it doesn't have the earth, in...
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    No Earth! best way to go about a fix?

    hope someone can chuck a few ideas on this one? I have recently qualified and was helping a mate that has got a bar and he needed a few extra 13a sockets fitted. the feed is a 20 radial protected with a 20 amp mcb on the rcd side of a 18 way board (looks 16th edition). Its being fed by 6mm2...
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    no earth in lighting circuit

    changed a consumer unit today from old wylex board to new 17th dual rcd, when i was stripping out i noticed no earth in the lights cable. what would be the best way around this re-wire or can you fit class 2 fittings and switches. thanks :D

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