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Hi guys,

I'm new on here and have an issue that I'd like some help with please. A pipe was leaking beneath my tiled floor in the bathroom and had been leaking for some time without me realising. I have a whirlpool bath and it stopped working. The leak was fixed and I haven't turned the whirlpool back on at the CU (it has its own RCD). There is also an RCD under the bath, which is what I suspect was tripped in the first instance. I have had some work done in the bathroom and dumb and dumber (my name for the handymen) who retiled the bath panel, have now ensured that there is no easy access to the RCD on the bath. My question is do you think its safe to turn it back on, in the hope that it works? The leak was repaired approximately 12 months ago. I don't see any signs of water beneath the floor now. What do you think?
 
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Hi guys,

I'm new on here and have an issue that I'd like some help with please. A pipe was leaking beneath my tiled floor in the bathroom and had been leaking for some time without me realising. I have a whirlpool bath and it stopped working. The leak was fixed and I haven't turned the whirlpool back on at the CU (it has its own RCD). There is also an RCD under the bath, which is what I suspect was tripped in the first instance. I have had some work done in the bathroom and dumb and dumber (my name for the handymen) who retiled the bath panel, have now ensured that there is no easy access to the RCD on the bath. My question is do you think its safe to turn it back on, in the hope that it works? The leak was repaired approximately 12 months ago. I don't see any signs of water beneath the floor now. What do you think?

Should you not be getting the handymen back to do a proper job?
What do you class as 'no easy access to the RCD'? Did you not think you might need access to this?
 
At this stage you do not know if the RCD has even tripped!

You'll need to access it to check.

While you have the bathroom in bits, it is time to relocate that RCD to somewhere that you can get to.
 

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