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Funny old thing when I connected the live cable that was lying under the floorboards I now have a ring CCT!!! Now I can plan to change the CU its only took me 4 days to sort out somebody elses mess, I can't believe that people are so stupid!! Lucky the house didn' burn down. I had an...

Thanks I have already done the lighting as I found loads of probs with 3 way switches wired incorrectly and I had a broken live under floorboards. Next for the mains, I think it may well have been a ring at one point as now there are only 2 sockets on one radial! and I have found a live cable...

Thanks I ave already tried the Neutral and that is also open cct. I'm uprading as I only have old fuse box and the I have found live wires etc left under floorboards and the garage is wired off a spur in house etc etc. I'm in the middle of tracing everything as whoever wired this house...

Hi I'm in the process of changing the CU in my house. On disconnecting the mains cct I found 2 cables into the same fuse which i thought was a ring cct but when I tested I had no continuety between the live cables, so I suspect that there are 2 seperate radial ccts! Can I move these to the...

I'm about to replace my old consumer unit with new split load one. The incoming earth :? on the electric meter seems to be 6mm and gas pipe earth is also 6mm. I thought that the earth should now be 10mm for gas and water pipes. Should I call leccy board to replace incoming earth or can I...