32volts present at light fitting when it's switched off!

[Tim Brennan]

not led, standard 60w bulb

 

[westward10]

Does it do this with all the other circuits isolated.

 

[Midwest]

Could be live & neutral cross connected between pendants loop in's/out's. When one light is turned on, presents voltage at dimmed light's neutral, if you get my drift.

 

[Tim Brennan]

To be honest, I never tried that, but I have found a number of scary things, the guy that was here before me must have been a diy enthusiast. I've found a single socket part screwed to a back box under the floorboards in one bedroom acting as a junction box! A borrowed neutral on the landing two way lights, and where they had moved the CU on the previous kitchen change, they had extended all the cables using chocblocks wrapped in tape, stuffed them into a hole in the wall, filled it with plaster and tiled over it. I found that little beauty when I took the tiles of to refit the kitchen, and noticed a line cable just showing where I pulled the tile off.

 

[Octopus]

^^nothing surprises me when doing kitchen refits any more...... I won't give a firm price until the old units are out....

Earlier this week I was working on a bathroom refurb...

Taking a light off the wall - 2 cables - 1 x 2 core and 1 T&E.. the 2 core supplied the live off circuit 2, the T&E supplied the neutral from circuit 3, and neither run in a safe zone.

And the icing on the cake - neither circuit had an earth.... just shows the importance of safe isolation

 

[Rpa07]

I want to press 'like' but I 'don't like' that - what sort of person does that, apart from an incompetent one! It beggars belief

 

[CACJL]

If you are measuring the voltage with no incandescent lamp in the socket with a very high input impedance voltmeter, you could get a volt present due to capacitance between your dead live running along side an active live.

 

[sham]

I wonder if it is a back feed due to a borrowed nuetral