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    Feeling electricity in water

    You are saying If I were a betting man, I think my money would be on the sensations experienced by the OP having been due to induced voltages with minimal current-supplying capability (hence no hazard), and probably absolutely nothing to do with anything 'wrong' with the installation. That...
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    Feeling electricity in water

    no supplementary bonding under the bath or no main bonding to the water and gas. yes we had none of that but if we looked at the use box we had before it was quite important to sort it out as it looked a mess. I also mentioned before that the soil pipe outside the house is in front of the...
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    Feeling electricity in water

    Yes he was recommended, we paid £150 for the day and he is coming back another day test everything in the house for another £150
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    Feeling electricity in water

    This was the old fuse box
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    Feeling electricity in water

    I don't know why this one was bought may be because it will protect all the circuits.the electrician will come back to test everything again and he said tingling in water is caused by lack of earth to the ground as there always small leakage if electricity and it travels anywhere. We had cowboys...
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    Feeling electricity in water

    Hello Could someone tell me if my new fuse box is better than the one I had.(see post above) and if I felt electricity in water its because there was no earth at all to the ground? And lets say if water would again get in the way of a wire it would make the fuse to trip?
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    Feeling electricity in water

    Before we had wylex nhr s12sl now see picture
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    Feeling electricity in water

    We felt tingling when touching water.we had no earth at all before as the cowboys builders cut it off. Apparently the fuse box will trip with 0.03 before it was 30mamps
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    Feeling electricity in water

    Slow down its all to technical for me. Ok we felt water in electricity and had no earth to the ground. Electrician came and installed new fuse box. Meter is still at same place.we sent application form to have it moved. We do not feel electricity in water any more.i just want your opinion on...
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    Feeling electricity in water

    So is the installation ok?? You said the supply cable sheath may be broken.where is it situated? Remember I'm just a novice woman trying to understand. Before yes we had no ground at all so that's why we felt electricity in water.now we have ground to earth
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    Feeling electricity in water

    The bath is plastic and upstairs
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    Feeling electricity in water

    This is the bottom of picture 1. The gas meter pipe is burried into the ground then we have a ground cable connected to the pipe through the gas meter outside in the garden from one end and the other end of the cable is connected to the electric meter and from the electric meter ground we are...
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    Feeling electricity in water

    Please see the installation
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    Feeling electricity in water

    The guys who did the electricity were not electrician but the guy who came is on.he did the earth to the ground
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    Feeling electricity in water

    If there no earth to the ground and we didn't have any we would feel electricity in the water if there is any humidity touching a wire. We had an extension built and the soil pipe is just outside the bathroom on top of extension.the cowboys did not seal it properly and when it was raining rain...
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    Feeling electricity in water

    No underheating and an unfinished extension built by cowboybuilders. They did electric work with poor safety and the bath was not earthed properly.
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    Feeling electricity in water

    are you saying that even if the bath is not earthed we should never feel electricity? We are going to have a full assessment today and a brand new fuse box fitted.lets say its due to dampness underneath the bath what do you do? When people take shower in a bath there could always be water on the...
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    Moving meter

    Is it true that if the meter is very old they move it for free, and mine has no 100 amperes device installed.
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    Feeling electricity in water

    We got a plumber today and the earth underneath the bath was not connected anywhere , he now fixed the issue and there s no more electricity in the water. we had cowboys builders 2 years ago and they had cut of the ground earth.
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