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Yes, we're hoping that's the case too. The missing Part P is worrying, but for the moment I just need to be able to use the kitchen again!

Thanks everyone. I'll post a pic of the consumer unit when I get home, but at the moment we've switched off the breaker for that area until we can work out who installed it all and when (and who signed it off!), or (more likely) I bite the bullet and pay to have the consumer unit replaced, the...

@ban-all-sheds Thanks for your comments. Its a house. My electrician (yes, he's a real one - registered and come recommended and everything!) can't say for certain what has happened since the house was built. He was concerned as, in his opinion, the consumer unit was not one which would have...

Thanks @JohnD, I'll check tonight

I don't know - I'll have to check tonight when I get home, but the electrician seemed to think the earth bonding was necessary - and missing.

Yes - there's no RCD protection and no evidence of main gas and water earth bonding. Plus high readings in the neutral legs of the kitchen ring main. It doesn't comply with regulations now or when it was installed in his opinion.

Hi, Hopefully this is the right forum for this? I bought a property last year which was completed in 2006 (I have the Building Control Completion certificate dated March 2006). Recently, I have been having trouble with a short on the circuit in the kitchen. An electrician has told me that, for...