I've been out this morning helping a colleague, the reported fault was something like 'an electrician has changed a light and now the lights don't work'.
This is a rental property and the new tenant reported a shock off a metal light fitting, the ceiling height is ~7ft and laying in the front garden are several chandelier style fittings looking to be >> 1ft tall/drop, all 5 downstairs lights changed to regular roses on Tuesday by the guy sent in by the landlord, he spent most of the day there and promised to return Wednesday to get it working.
Tenant demonstrated instant tripping when RCBO reset, test label on CU and copy of EICR dated Feb 2024. Very standard loopin at rose wiring by 3x 3/0.029 twin (no E) except the last with only 2. 2 fittings had; 2x red + 1x black in 'loop', rest had all red in 'loop'.
We started on the living room as closest to CU and found this;
the scrawl on left being my notes the capitals on right being legible. Assuming it was first on the system it didn't explain the tripping.
We changed tack and identified the 5 switch drops and were going to reconfigure to suit but decided to identify every wire to ensure against the unexpected; All 5 fittings were incorrectly wired.
We were there for under 2 hours, I hate to think how long it would have taken a DIYer coming on here for help to resolve.
Agents pics dated Feb 24 prior to previous tenant moving in show rose/pendant so the assumption is previous tenant changed them.
This is a rental property and the new tenant reported a shock off a metal light fitting, the ceiling height is ~7ft and laying in the front garden are several chandelier style fittings looking to be >> 1ft tall/drop, all 5 downstairs lights changed to regular roses on Tuesday by the guy sent in by the landlord, he spent most of the day there and promised to return Wednesday to get it working.
Tenant demonstrated instant tripping when RCBO reset, test label on CU and copy of EICR dated Feb 2024. Very standard loopin at rose wiring by 3x 3/0.029 twin (no E) except the last with only 2. 2 fittings had; 2x red + 1x black in 'loop', rest had all red in 'loop'.
We started on the living room as closest to CU and found this;
We changed tack and identified the 5 switch drops and were going to reconfigure to suit but decided to identify every wire to ensure against the unexpected; All 5 fittings were incorrectly wired.
We were there for under 2 hours, I hate to think how long it would have taken a DIYer coming on here for help to resolve.
Agents pics dated Feb 24 prior to previous tenant moving in show rose/pendant so the assumption is previous tenant changed them.
