please help, have recentley had newly plastered walls, socket faces removed by electrician prior to get a good finish, halfway through plastering half the sockets in house are not working, not a fuse problem electrican has tested most of existing and new sockets put in but can not find the fault and the root cause problem, any ideas on what might be responsible, he has got a flicker of power from the sockets not working but that is all, and he cant find the answer, it is a 1960's house which has not been rewired. many thanks, kim
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If he's getting a tiny amount of power before it's tripping, sounds like it could be a neutral problem causing an RCD to trip (assuming there is an RCD). If one of the neutrals for the new sockets has been run back to the wrong side of the RCD, then this situation would occur.
I had a similar problem where someone had wired up a trailing socket with neutral and earth reversed (quite how they managed that I don't know!) - it would work instantaneously before tripping the RCBO, took quite a while to find that one...
I had a similar problem where someone had wired up a trailing socket with neutral and earth reversed (quite how they managed that I don't know!) - it would work instantaneously before tripping the RCBO, took quite a while to find that one...
hi, i have wired fuses, but they are all intact
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OK, then if we believe in cause and effect, pulling the sockets out has disturbed a connection. Most likely a connection into one of the sockets.
However for this to be the case your circuit doesn't sound like it is a ring final. Otherwise there would have to be two disturbed connections.
Your 'electrician' doesn't sound like they're up to much if they gave up on this one, though.
With the power off, check all the connections are done up tightly.
However for this to be the case your circuit doesn't sound like it is a ring final. Otherwise there would have to be two disturbed connections.
Your 'electrician' doesn't sound like they're up to much if they gave up on this one, though.
With the power off, check all the connections are done up tightly.
What sort of "Electrician" are you employing the services of ???
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