Ring main become 2 radials

Naz · Aug 27, 2018

Electrical ring circuit

The electricalian came and did the second fix. But we werent sure if all the wires had been bought through the plaster board.

All the sockets work, but we wanted to make sure there are no wires hiding in the walls.. we tested by disconnecting one of the 2 lives going into the fuse.. when we did this we tested the 11 sockets ..they all worked except the one just as you walk in the LR.. when we switch the lives at the fuse, the one in the LR room now works but the other 10 stops working.. this tells us that we have again unintensionally created two radial circuits both ending with an exposed live wire in the wall somewhere...1 radial has 1 socket .. and the other radial has the other 10.. and we have a break between socket 10 and 11.. any suggestions how to resolve?

Is it be to remove the outgoing cable in the single radial.. and then find where the rouge outgoing wire is in the other 10 sockets..

Electron · Sep 1, 2018

Naz, Sorry to hear about your problem.

Can I suggest you use the service offered by the Electrical Safety Council, who are a charity who campaign for electrical safety.

If you follow this link to their website and enter your postcode, they will give you a list of the Registered Electricians nearest to where you live.

Find a Registered Electrician | Electrical Safety First - https://www.----------------------------/find-an-electrician/

Their list of Registered Electricians will all be qualified, regularly assessed and insured. They will also have access to technical support if necessary.

Your experience demonstrates the problems of not using a Registered Electrician, which can potentially endanger you and your family.

Andrew Alexander · Sep 4, 2018

Instead of bashing holes in the walls, you could get your electrician to lift the floor boards or access hole to crawl space in the room where the missing sockets are located or in all rooms to ensure that all wires going up to the walls have a socket above, if not then you may be missing a socket and therefore live cables behind the walls at these locations.