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When some flipping ruddy IDIOT leaves one leg half way up the length of trunking because it wouldn't reach the socket!
I sh*t you not! I've been on this last job two days and I was only sent to add a spur for a washing machine.
Checked the gas and water bonding and all was well.
Circuit protected by 32amp RCBO so all well there too.
Tested end to end for continuity.... Doh!
First observation was that the house had been wired Front and Back rings as opposed to up down which threw me off track on day one. Today though I approached with a fresh head and quickly realised what was going on.
Only one thing wasn't adding up whilst I was testing between all the sockets and that was "WHY" when rewiring a house would someone just run a spur to one double socket in one of the bedrooms? There was no sign of where the spur had come from either? I guessed there must be a junction box somewhere?
I went in search and lucky for me all of the upstairs had no carpets. First board I lifted and hey presto... WTF! I spotted that there were actually two cables heading in the direction of the spurred socket... Um! This was never intended to be a spur... I could not believe that the second leg had been poked up behind the skirting board and JUST made it in to the trunking. There was NO SLACK on the cables so my only conclusion is that this circuit has NEVER been anything other than two radials on a 32amp RCBO with live conductors hidden behind the trunking :yikes
I am so pleased with myself for doing the initial checks before commencing the work that I had been sent in to do.
Just for the record, this was a council property and had recently (last two years) undergone a full rewire which I presume would have had to have been carried out by an NICEIC approved contractor?
This has just emphasised how important it is to test a circuit before commencing work. I know some of you more experienced would have learnt this a long long time ago and I've read posts explaining the same on here but when you actually do AND find a fault it makes it so much more satisfying.
Thanks for reading all:thumbsup
I sh*t you not! I've been on this last job two days and I was only sent to add a spur for a washing machine.
Checked the gas and water bonding and all was well.
Circuit protected by 32amp RCBO so all well there too.
Tested end to end for continuity.... Doh!
First observation was that the house had been wired Front and Back rings as opposed to up down which threw me off track on day one. Today though I approached with a fresh head and quickly realised what was going on.
Only one thing wasn't adding up whilst I was testing between all the sockets and that was "WHY" when rewiring a house would someone just run a spur to one double socket in one of the bedrooms? There was no sign of where the spur had come from either? I guessed there must be a junction box somewhere?
I went in search and lucky for me all of the upstairs had no carpets. First board I lifted and hey presto... WTF! I spotted that there were actually two cables heading in the direction of the spurred socket... Um! This was never intended to be a spur... I could not believe that the second leg had been poked up behind the skirting board and JUST made it in to the trunking. There was NO SLACK on the cables so my only conclusion is that this circuit has NEVER been anything other than two radials on a 32amp RCBO with live conductors hidden behind the trunking :yikes
I am so pleased with myself for doing the initial checks before commencing the work that I had been sent in to do.
Just for the record, this was a council property and had recently (last two years) undergone a full rewire which I presume would have had to have been carried out by an NICEIC approved contractor?
This has just emphasised how important it is to test a circuit before commencing work. I know some of you more experienced would have learnt this a long long time ago and I've read posts explaining the same on here but when you actually do AND find a fault it makes it so much more satisfying.
Thanks for reading all:thumbsup
