Not to outdo RF Lighting's submission but wanted to share this little gem with you. I'm in the middle of a kitchen refurb. Old chalk & flint cottage (single story), internal walls brick infills into timber frame.
The cu is too small so needs to be upgraded. The customer said - it was only done a couple of years ago.
Pic below, there is an RCBO on one of the socket circuits, the other sockets do not have RCD protection - strange I thought but my new 12-way split load will sort that out, later.
So on day one I started pulling out some of the old wiring in the kitchen.
Very nasty cable routes like this cooker circuit, it went from a buried choc block in the wall at an angle to the old cooker point.
From a socket a spur had been added and the cable here ran at a 30 degree angle down behind the sink to another socket. You can see the oval trunking here. But the best bit is that the route for the cable providing the ring to the socket came down the wooden vertical and turned left into the socket box (probably because the box couldnt go into the wood).
Over the years this wooden vertical had been the site to hang sundry kitchen cupboards. I removed the piece of (1.5metre) length cable from the wall and found two wallplugs bullseye right thru the cpc, one screw makinfg a dead short between neutral and cpc and two other places where nails hac been driven thru the cable.
It was at this point that I reaslised why the previous sparky had not put an RCBO or RCD on the other ring!
There's still almost a dead short between cpc and neutral on that circuit - lots of extra work for TTC on this. Lucily it was done as an estimate not a fixed price job!
The cu is too small so needs to be upgraded. The customer said - it was only done a couple of years ago.
Pic below, there is an RCBO on one of the socket circuits, the other sockets do not have RCD protection - strange I thought but my new 12-way split load will sort that out, later.
So on day one I started pulling out some of the old wiring in the kitchen.
Very nasty cable routes like this cooker circuit, it went from a buried choc block in the wall at an angle to the old cooker point.
From a socket a spur had been added and the cable here ran at a 30 degree angle down behind the sink to another socket. You can see the oval trunking here. But the best bit is that the route for the cable providing the ring to the socket came down the wooden vertical and turned left into the socket box (probably because the box couldnt go into the wood).
Over the years this wooden vertical had been the site to hang sundry kitchen cupboards. I removed the piece of (1.5metre) length cable from the wall and found two wallplugs bullseye right thru the cpc, one screw makinfg a dead short between neutral and cpc and two other places where nails hac been driven thru the cable.
It was at this point that I reaslised why the previous sparky had not put an RCBO or RCD on the other ring!
There's still almost a dead short between cpc and neutral on that circuit - lots of extra work for TTC on this. Lucily it was done as an estimate not a fixed price job!
