Not Good practice I know but

[lofty84]

I changed my parents consumer unit to a new 17th eddition MK one a little while ago. Everything went well and when I turned it all back on there was no problems with any of the rcd tripping so it looked like everything was good and I knew what Iw as doing. Today though I was just being nosey and trying to work out this 2 way lighting mylarkey as its always confussed me so much so I always let someone else do it while I did something else. well anyway I turn of the mcb which I running the downstairs lights and on the right hand side rcd. the upstairs is on the left as you do. well having turned it off and watching the lights go out I set about undoing everything (taking a picture of it before of course) to see if I could work it all out (which I couldnt) and low and behold I got a bloddy shock. Im gonna sound a right cowboy but most of my tools are in my buddys van so I didnt have me voltage/continuity tester to double check and just plouged in as the lights had gone of but as I say I got a shock. Im thinking there must have been a borrowed neautral or something from the lights upstairs somewhere but Im not sure. I didnt want to turn the upstairs light breaker of and then touch it again to find out and obviously I didnt have my tester to see, so I just turnt everything of at the main switch terminated everything back together as per the photo and turned it back on where it all works as before.

Any ideas what is going on and am I right about it being down to a shared neautral somewhere. I will set about finding it if it is but I wont be that till i buy a mft

cheers

 

[Knobhead]

About time this litany of incompetence was ended.

 

[Stroppy]

2330 without any practical at all can't be proper 2330, unless he's been Royally ripped off by some shysters.

 

[growler]

i think he got his 2330 in a cracker at christmas !

 

[Geordie Spark]

How the hell did I get dragged in to this farce?

He just knows you're such a good natured helpful chap.

 

[markythesparky]

I feel sorry fo rthis guy (if its not a wind up). this is a sign of the sh*t state this country has become.

No one is trained properly any more.
No one cares if hes trained properly anymore
No one cares about giving proper training anymore
No one gives a ---- about doing the job properly anymore

and every day there are more and more 'no ones'.

Bloody Sad!