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Just thought I would inform you of the outcome. He came back and we agreed he would remove all the sockets and check them and replace some older unswithched ones. Having done this he got a reading of 44 (megaohms?). He seemed happier with this so we agreed he change the consumer unit. This was...

Sorry I didn't make this clear from the start but he did say it was the main ring which had the low reading. Thanks for your advice, it seems like he is doing the right thing then, though he hasn't given me a price yet.

Thanks for your replies, I am assuming it is Megohms as he said the other two were readings were 255 and 250 (which ties in with what londonboy posted). So although it is within the regs it is still low enough to warrant investigating which is fair enough.

I wanted my (3) old fuse boards replaced with a modern consumer unit. A local electrician came and said he would replace it but he wanted to do an inspection first as problems not found on old fuse boards would become apparant on these new consumer units. This sounded reasonable to me. He came...