Dumb Ass

[Bright_Spark]

Just had a mate phone me and tell me this....


...just got to an emergency call out...someones had some electrical work done and their breaker for their downstairs ring had tripped. so i turned up...for the customer to say...'my upstairs sockets have their own fuse, it looks alright, but they've gone off as well' so after some investigation...

...some 'electrician' had done an alteration and managed to somehow spur from the wrong JB....the downstairs ring had all but 2 of the upstairs sockets spured from it and the other 2 upstairs (which the customer must'nt of 'checked') were in fact a 32A radial from the CU, which were 2 on their own in an 'unused' bedroom.

Dont ask me how they got confused - i dont know, i only know what my mate has just told me. for a second or so i found it funny, as did he, then we came to the conclusion that someones done that who's supposed to know what they're doing!

just thought id share that with you.

 

[plugwash]

upstairs sockets spurred from downstairs ring was not uncommon at one time.

my guess is the radial was added later (possiblly because of a lack of suitable places left to spur from or because the fusebox was the easiest place to take wiring from) and someone after that mislabeled them as upstairs and downstairs (or they weren't labeled at all and the householder just assumed).

btw do you know if the radial was in cable acceptable for a 32A circuit?