Good Evening ,
I recently had a bedroom decorated and decided to put new light fitting and sockets in .(old ones were 20 odd yrs old ).
Carpet fitters were due to arrive in an hour so I thought get them done beforehand so no dirt on new carpet .
Clicked switch off at consumer unit marked up back bedroom .Hoover left on so I knew sockets were dead when it went off .
Did three of them no probs ,got to 4th one ,took old socket off and in my haste thought ,"that felt funny ".For some strange reason then took hold of live and neutral to see if one of them did actually feel funny !!!!!
Made a rather "silly " sounding "ooooeerrrraghh " noise and let go .
It was then I realised it must have been live and was fed from a different direction being the bedroom behind it .!!Why do they do this ???
The trip switch had switched on the consumer unit .
Did this save me and could it have been worse ???
No harm done ,and for any other non experts ,dont try this at home .
Regards
Rob.
I recently had a bedroom decorated and decided to put new light fitting and sockets in .(old ones were 20 odd yrs old ).
Carpet fitters were due to arrive in an hour so I thought get them done beforehand so no dirt on new carpet .
Clicked switch off at consumer unit marked up back bedroom .Hoover left on so I knew sockets were dead when it went off .
Did three of them no probs ,got to 4th one ,took old socket off and in my haste thought ,"that felt funny ".For some strange reason then took hold of live and neutral to see if one of them did actually feel funny !!!!!
Made a rather "silly " sounding "ooooeerrrraghh " noise and let go .
It was then I realised it must have been live and was fed from a different direction being the bedroom behind it .!!Why do they do this ???
The trip switch had switched on the consumer unit .
Did this save me and could it have been worse ???
No harm done ,and for any other non experts ,dont try this at home .
Regards
Rob.