Recent content by oldhousescot

Gents I had suspected that but I suppose that I hadn't figured that the RCD was so sensitive. Time to stop twitching! thanks guys Alan

Hi All It's been a while since posting and many thanks for help in the past. I was hoping to run an extension from one socket in my garage to give me another socket close to where I want to site my compressor. The garage has been wired from house consumer unit to another consumer unit in...

Gents you are stars!! Thanks very much!!

Hi all Those who read the shocking experience will understand that the spark employed to wire the house wasn't the brightest. Anyway he has left me with a real conundrum. I have hall lighting on one ring controlling 12 mains voltage downlighters. the lights are switched from 3...

Hi all, Many thanks for all your help in aiding with the solution. To give you all a update I contacted the local supplier and explained that people were getting shocks, they claimed that they needed various readings from my spark. Spark materialised did tests and again found no issues...

not touching other metalwork in general just differing parts of the boiler. oil tank is not shared. had been thinking of local fault, is there anyway to test for this to confirm?

1 - Yes and 2 - Yes

As for the clothes point on both occasions he was wearing std uniform and weather was largely the same, maybe about 3 degrees warmer witha little thaw. I was aware that the pens do not necessarily show "accurately" and that was why we got the spark back in. Someone suggested a neutral...

Hi The plumber described the shock as not always being there he would maybe be able to grip the pipeowork for up to 20 sec before he would feel the shock.

no its not directly bonded to anything, though why if all was ok on friday and not Monday would this make a difference? Should it be? ta

Its a grant vortex oil boiler. Oil supply line in copper. Not sure if its PME or not, no markings anywhere. one cable enters property made of a core to live and an outer armour to a block from which the neutral to meter and earth to consumer unit is taken. Spark say all was tested but...

Unsure what you mean by supply, I presume you mean 2 core to fuse board with common neutral / earth. All pipework to house is plastic and all feed pipes in house are plastic bar those near boiler. Fist electrician (in whom I am rapidly losing confidence) said no bonding required. Thanks

Hi All, hoping someone can offer some advice My plumber is complaining of receiving an electric shock from the new boiler which has left everyone confused. Last fri he arrived to commission the boiler, worked on it with no issues but couldn't complete because of a water leak when...

All Need some emergency advice. Recently refurbing an old stone built Scottish Farmhouse. The house was stripped back to stone, framed internally with 50 * 25 mm batten and infilled with 50mm Kingspan, double foil sided boards. This has been covered in plasterboard ready for the plasterer...