Ring Final Circuit advise query

[Singer]

great! your very own shared neutral . LOL.

My point exactly!!

 

[Des 56]

You may have had success if you had fed the circuit with one live at a time,taking earth loop readings of the sockets which were fed by that live
The 2 highest readings may have narrowed down the search (spurs not withstanding) to the 2 sockets that needed cables disconnected to form 2 radials

Having said that,unless people have been in these obsessive hoarder properties, they may be unaware of how absolutely impossible doing the possible can be

 

[Singer]

You may have had success if you had fed the circuit with one live at a time,taking earth loop readings of the sockets which were fed by that live
The 2 highest readings may have narrowed down the search (spurs not withstanding) to the 2 sockets that needed cables disconnected to form 2 radials

Having said that,unless people have been in these obsessive hoarder properties, they may be unaware of how absolutely impossible doing the possible can be

Absolutely true Des. Couple that with the fact they had a very rude and offensive lodger in one of the bedrooms that took offense to me or my tools or my van being there in the first place made this a nightmare job!

 

[adamh]

hey im just trying to offer some friendly advice, and then im being told of shared neutrals . my suggestion was to seperate the ring into a cpl of radials in the board, and then i would of disconnected both ends of a leg in 2 accessible sockets splitting the ring not ideal but still as safe in my opinion but with the added bonus at some point the customer will discover sockets not working and will have no choice but to rectify.

 

[Des 56]

Absolutely true Des. Couple that with the fact they had a very rude and offensive lodger in one of the bedrooms that took offense to me or my tools or my van being there in the first place made this a nightmare job!

Reality of life and the conditions that we sometimes have to operate in,it sometimes make a mockery of the perfect world that the regs are played out in and the minds of perfection of those who write them

The Niceic can only trot out official guidlines,reality sometimes conflict,you may have done all that could be reasonably be asked of anyone in that situation

 

[Singer]

hey im just trying to offer some friendly advice, and then im being told of shared neutrals . my suggestion was to seperate the ring into a cpl of radials in the board, and then i would of disconnected both ends of a leg in 2 accessible sockets splitting the ring not ideal but still as safe in my opinion but with the added bonus at some point the customer will discover sockets not working and will have no choice but to rectify.

OK Adam, Friendly advise is always very welcome but attempts at humiliation quoting complete nonsense isn't.
As Des has just commented access in this property is a real nightmare and getting the customer to agree to me doing anything is a real uphill struggle too. Even poking my head around a door into another bedroom met with hostility. They don't like to think you could be taking something away and don't give you free access to all rooms to carry out tests.