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Just spent two days fault finding after a call from a distressed lady who came home from a lengthy absence to find her freezer contents melted and mouldy.
RCD had tripped, one (broken) ring serving a four bed house over three storeys, IR tested each leg and dropped the low reading side out of the MCB, RCD stayed in, started testing various sockets, some had missing neutral, others Zs reading of 700, eventually found a blanked off socket behind a wardrobe, CPCs loose and not connected, neutrals in a choc block screws not nipped up. Back to the original fault which looks like a dodgy connection under the tiled bathroom floor, threw in a temp link to bypass it, alls well for now
RCD had tripped, one (broken) ring serving a four bed house over three storeys, IR tested each leg and dropped the low reading side out of the MCB, RCD stayed in, started testing various sockets, some had missing neutral, others Zs reading of 700, eventually found a blanked off socket behind a wardrobe, CPCs loose and not connected, neutrals in a choc block screws not nipped up. Back to the original fault which looks like a dodgy connection under the tiled bathroom floor, threw in a temp link to bypass it, alls well for now
