I'm trying to get to the bottom of a mystery.
It started when I replaced an old damaged socket in a conservatory. This socket was fed from a single T+E from the house. It also fed another redundant socket so this was removed at this time. So we are left with the existing cable from the house (red/black/bare) connected to a new socket correctly (triple checked, red>live, black>neutral etc).
This is where the mystery begins. The socket no longer works correctly, and neither does the nearest socket inside the house, which is the one that presumably feeds the conservatory socket.
A TV & video plugged into this socket now cycle on and off, and some wall lights come on at the same frequency even though they are switched off.
Any ideas that might explain why this has started with what amounts to a simple socket swap?
The house could do with a re-wire, but it's my nans house and there's no way should would be able to have it done at this time.
Thanks in advance.
It started when I replaced an old damaged socket in a conservatory. This socket was fed from a single T+E from the house. It also fed another redundant socket so this was removed at this time. So we are left with the existing cable from the house (red/black/bare) connected to a new socket correctly (triple checked, red>live, black>neutral etc).
This is where the mystery begins. The socket no longer works correctly, and neither does the nearest socket inside the house, which is the one that presumably feeds the conservatory socket.
A TV & video plugged into this socket now cycle on and off, and some wall lights come on at the same frequency even though they are switched off.
Any ideas that might explain why this has started with what amounts to a simple socket swap?
The house could do with a re-wire, but it's my nans house and there's no way should would be able to have it done at this time.
Thanks in advance.