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Thanks...I just wish houses came with wiring diagrams!!

Ok, got somewhere today. Found the wiring in my house for the sockets appears to zig zag from downstairs to upstairs. I pulled up floorboard near socket 2 and saw both cables disapear downstairs!The 3 sockets I mentioned yesterday spanning 2 bedrooms had 2 faults on. The first fault was due to a...

In sockets 1 and 3, the cables enter at the bottom of the socket. In socket 2, thry enter from the side...in normal circumstances, would the cables in socket 2 be expected to leave the socket on the side and either continue straight along the plastered wall, or turn 90 degrees and go to the...

Yes, spur leg clear...when I disconnected all cores in all sockets, 1 by 1 i shorted live to earth at sockets 1 and 3 to prove these cables went to socket 2 by measuring there. ... It has to be a common fault right?? The only thing I can think is the feed and return cables to socket 2 are...

No, glued it!! With the rcd being bypassed before I moved in, I suspect it's been faulty for a while...I'm guessing they changed from an old re-wire able fuse board for this new style consumer unit, and the fault was present then... Thanks

So, I'm guessing the best place to start is the middle (socket 2) and try and follow the run to sockets 1 and 3, hoping to find a common fault along the wall. As the cables enter socket 2 in the side rather than bottom, in people's experience, would the cables run buried in the wall parallel to...

That's what I took it as?? Cheers

Run in plaster but thinking about it it enters and leaves socket 2 at the side rather than the bottom? Would it run in the wall or would you say it should drop down under floor boards?? I'm just thinking out loud!?

Yes, between rn r2. Fault is in upstairs adjacent bedrooms. Assuming cable runs under floorboards? Sockets approx 300 mm from floor level. Thanks

I started off in consumer unit, disconnecting cores on circuit and it was flat down neutral to earth, that's when I started hunting round splitting sockets. I'm just surprised it's affecting 3.sockets with all cores disconnected, that why I'm guessing it must be a couple of cables running...

Just a multi meter-I'm getting <1 ohm on affected legs.

Magic!! Thanks. So I'm guessing the cables must run in close proximity to and from socket 2 and both have some damage???

struggling to put an image in - drawing almost right but socket 2 is at the opposite end of the room, so socket 1 would loop into that room, down the wall to socket 2, and socket 2 return leg then runs back down the wall and loops to socket 3 in the same room - its where both cables run along...

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Socket 1 and 2 have 2 cables. I've eliminated 1 cable in socket 1. Socket 3 has 3 cables in it (ring + spur?), and I've eliminated 2 of those. I've proven each faulty cable from socket 1 and 3 goes to socket 2. I've inspected socket 2 closely and can see no damage on incoming cables...how...

It appears to be spanning all 3 sockets, I've disconnected all cores, proven which feeds which socket, and it's as though 2 lengths of cable running alongside each other, are faulty?? Does that sound likely? Thanks

Ps. It hasn't come out well but socket 2 is at the rhs of the room. Sockets 1 and 3 are lhs

Hi, just moved into our house a couple of months ago. Today, I found the ring main circuit had been wired to the consumer unit with the rcd not used. Alarm bells rang. I wired in the rcd and it trips instantly. I've found a dead short neutral to earth (corrs disconnected in consumer unit). I...