RFC jointed under the floor

[Englishman]

Went to a job Wednesday evening to an "earth neutral fault" to find a continuity between them of .12

Started taking sockets off and keep finding one cable at each outlet. Few boards up and start seeing junction boxes. With the customer knowing I'd be potentially pulling boards up all night, he told me he'd strip the carpets up (just bought the flat so not moved in) and locate all JBs under the floor. I'm then going back when I can access all connections.

Anyone ever come across anything like this? Never known a ring jointed under a floor with, in effect, spurs to each socket?

 

[Knobhead]

Spider web I used for the 1[SUP]st[/SUP] floor lighting of my house. Because of the alterations I was doing on the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] floor it was the most logical method. A central TB with KlipOn terminals where it could be easily accessed.

 

[Englishman]

Junction box containing unsleeved earth and about 15mm of bare neutral outside of the terminal. Pain in the arse but all sorted.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

You see it wasn't the JBs fault ;-))

 

[Englishman]

Just a lazy, incompetent sparks! Who leaves 25mm of bare neutral in a JB! Along with the unsleeved earth, they must have been in contact for years!