Cooker wiring, not what I expected

[GarryML]

Hi All,

While I was wiring up a cooker I thought I'd check the switch. This is not what I expected to see. I thought the feed neutral would be on the feed side but all 3 neutrals are on the load. Getting an electrician on it now but I wonder why this would be done like this?

80's house with a few other electrical oddities, like mains sockets are front and back, rather than the normal upstairs and downstairs.

 

[davelx]

Hi All,

I wonder why this would be done like this?

Possibly the N side of the switch is faulty? Easy to check with a continuity tester (power off at mains first!)

 

[GarryML]

Thanks, ok done that. Switch works fine, no shorts, very strange....

 

[DaveHerns]

Maybe the thread has stripped on the N feed terminal?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

We all know what the most likely reason is - at some time in the past a blundering idiot has been at work on poor old Gary's installation.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

80's house with a few other electrical oddities, like mains sockets are front and back, rather than the normal upstairs and downstairs.

Nothing wrong with that. Sometimes you get left & right. What matters is that your circuits are adequately divided, and that the CU is properly labelled. Having back and front at least means that if one circuit is down for any reason you still have power available on each floor.


That's better

 

[DetlefSchmitz]

<Sarcastic remark about quote formatting not being rocket science>

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Oh FGS