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While I was replacing the main oven element in my dual oven cooker, I noticed a connector above the small oven which looked as if it had very nearly caught fire. There appears to be some missing material around the area which I assume is some sort of insulation fibre. Can anyone advise what the...

DVM picks up zero everywhere else. Only picks up weird reading on the one circuit.

RF - Thanks for the welcome. I am an amateur, but a fairly capable guy. Will carefully look at MCBs later during the week (too busy today). I'll probably just swap over the suspect MCB with one of the good ones and see if problem persists. If there are any good step-by-step procedures you can...

Went to replace a broken socket today and found that with the appropriate circuit breaker switched off, I was still reading 79 volts. I switched all circuits off one by one, testing between each one and it still read 79 volts. Only when I switched off the main circuit breaker did the reading go...