Help!!! Can't turn electric off!!!

[Doug81]

Hi, I'm currently in the process of changing all my switches and sockets and I'm coming across a few problems, like no earth wire for any of the light fittings. Similarly no earth for some of the upstairs plug sockets but the worst yet is the socket in the hallway (right by the fuse box). It has both new (blue,brown,yellow/green) and old (red,black) wires looped together -not a big issue I hear you say....well it is when the old wiring is live even when the fuse box is switched off!!! How do I go about making it safe???

 

[Chris1234]

@Chris1234, could you let me know what you dislike about post #10, can't see what there is to dislike tbh ?

I must have pressed it when I fell asleep reading this thread earlier

 

[Dave OCD]

….and who's that joker throwing 'dumbs' around.... #9

It's that ongoing strange thing mate, people who never seem to post up anything at all but freely give out negative ratings, each to their own eh.

 

[Chris1234]

I’m left handed so tend to ‘like’ a lot of things on Facebook as the like button is on the left and press it while scrolling.

 

[Deleted member 105166]

I think the order of the icons is prone to fat finger syndrome, it would be better to have the ‘dislike’ and ‘disagree’ icons on the far right with ‘dumb’

 

[paulcopeman]

This reminds me of the time I got a nasty belt whilst changing a socket in a flat.
I switched off at main switch and my radio went off in the kitchen.
That was the amount of dead testing I did. LoL
I then took socket off wall in lounge and got a belt. Wtf.
After checking the precious tenant had drilled a hole through the back of the service head and passed a 2.5mm from service fuse to busbar feeding one of the breakers. Bypassing the meter completely.
This obviously left the whole busbar and therefore any breakers in the on position with voltage outgoing on the live conductors but turning off the main switch would cut out the neutral leaving nothing working in flat giving the impression it has been isolated.
I put it down to someone growing or for some other reason trying to extort electricity.

 

[Dave OCD]

I’m left handed so tend to ‘like’ a lot of things on Facebook as the like button is on the left and press it while scrolling.

No excuse at all,I'm left handed too, but on the other hand I don't have anything to do with Faceache.

 

[Deleted member 105166]

No excuse at all,I'm left handed too, but on the other hand I don't have anything to do with Faceache.

Mods/Admin, can we have a 'Like x 100' button for this man, or some other special recognition, on the basis of his disdain for Farcebook?

 

[l4urence]

Frightening! Heed all advice about switching this off and isolating. I have seen 2 rings connected together by error - so switching one off didn't. This needs careful inspection, testing and rectification.

 

[Dave OCD]

No excuse at all,I'm left handed too, but on the other hand I don't have anything to do with Faceache.

@Chris1234, you disagree that I'm left handed ?! I can assure you it's true.

 

[GBDamo]

@Chris1234, you disagree that I'm left handed ?! I can assure you it's true.

watch it

 

[mrloy99]

No update yet then?. If it's a flat that was devided up from the main house at one stage.Maybe you are on someone else's supply.. Yippee free lecky.Is everything else in the house off when the main switch goes off?

 

[driverman]

This reminds me of the time I got a nasty belt whilst changing a socket in a flat.
I switched off at main switch and my radio went off in the kitchen.
That was the amount of dead testing I did. LoL
I then took socket off wall in lounge and got a belt. Wtf.
After checking the precious tenant had drilled a hole through the back of the service head and passed a 2.5mm from service fuse to busbar feeding one of the breakers. Bypassing the meter completely.
This obviously left the whole busbar and therefore any breakers in the on position with voltage outgoing on the live conductors but turning off the main switch would cut out the neutral leaving nothing working in flat giving the impression it has been isolated.
I put it down to someone growing or for some other reason trying to extort electricity.

I also did similar thing many many years ago. Switched off all sockets, radio went off. So started to work on a socket, yep got a shock, it was on Economy seven! Time clock out of sinc. It was an old storage heater point. Ahh well