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So I thought I'd try and repeat this morning test and video it, if only to prove I'm not making it up!! The video below shows what I did, which was a "successful" test in demonstrating it. However, after a few minutes once I'd recorded the video it was getting harder and harder to recreate...

Indeed John, he was a nice bloke, comes highly recommended, but was just talking to me about the issue as opposed to doing any investigation, I presume he wants to charge me for doing that test rather than doing it on the spot so is keeping his powder dry... or he doesn't have the equipment...

I'll have a look around, are you thinking damp in the loft where the lights are or in the floor..? Or basically anywhere? No he didn't. He did some sort of continuity/resistance check with his multi-function-meter, I saw some high Ohms readings over his shoulder at one point. He did those...

Thanks Jackrae - so (if I understand correctly) the fix for the scenario you describe would be to properly earth the lighting circuit to the rest of the house as it were? I suppose this also might show why the guy yesterday didn't find it, because he was testing against the sockets in the...

Based on my experience so far, there's a probably a whole thread about how to find an electrician who will/can do a full check that is actually worth it's salt, there's so much trial and error involved for us lowly consumers :( Anyway, just as we might have though we've run aground, I think I...

Too many comments to quote (thank you!) :) Just in terms of the screwdriver in the second picture giving a continuity test when I touch the cap, if I touch the cap and I'm stood outside the shower on a lino floor, with the blade touching the main body of the shower, what continuity am I...

Of course, I'm grateful for your attention!! Pictures below :) Bear in mind that there is a variable in the mix here, that is to say me, so if I am inadvertently going down cul-de-sacs or being a bit random, bear with me :) Hope this works :) Push button type Metal cap type...