Hi all,
I’m looking for some advice on an electricity problem I’m having and hope to get your opinions before I get someone out who’s going to suck air through his teeth and the bend me over!!
I’m not a spark of any kind so some of the terminology may be off a little but here goes.
Some years back, we had a new kitchen fitted with an all in price, in other words, they’ll do all the sparks and gas for me.
All seemed to go OK until a couple of years later when we came to upgrade the cooker. When the fitters swapped the cooker over, it became apparent that the kitchen fitters hadn’t moved the cooker switch and worse is that the cable was still behind the wall where the cooker used to be and nowhere near where the cooker is now. They had however, disconnected the cooker cable from the MCB and replaced it with the two wires that run my sockets ring main. Essentially, my range electric cooker was running on the sockets ring and not its own RCD.
Got the kitchen company back who re- ran the cooker cable to its rightful place.
All seemed fine until I came to change a standard socket for a decorative one. Switched the sockets off at the MCB and……nothing. Everything stayed on. On closer inspection, the two cables that supply my sockets are plugged into my shower RCD and cooker RCD. Nothing was in the sockets RCD.
I disco’d the MCB from the supply and put the socket cables in their rightful RCD but it trips when you switch anything on. Lamp, phone charger…….anything. I’ve been around the house and switched everything off and removed the plug and the RCD doesn’t trip. Plug one thing in and switch it on and it pops.
Now there are two wire’s that go into the RCD, one for upstairs and one for downstairs (I presume). The same problem occurs whether either is put in alternately or both cables are put in together.
I’ve contacted the kitchen company again, but unfortunately they’ve gone bump (probably for dodgy workmanship).
I’ve since been and bought a new RCD for the sockets and it does the same thing. (The RCD is a HAGER ADA 932U B32).
My house is about 15-20 years old and the only other alterations done to the sparks were some spurs from the kitchen sockets for the conservatory we had built BEFORE we had the kitchen done. No problems up to the point of the kitchen refurb’.
I’d be grateful for any ideas.
I’m looking for some advice on an electricity problem I’m having and hope to get your opinions before I get someone out who’s going to suck air through his teeth and the bend me over!!
I’m not a spark of any kind so some of the terminology may be off a little but here goes.
Some years back, we had a new kitchen fitted with an all in price, in other words, they’ll do all the sparks and gas for me.
All seemed to go OK until a couple of years later when we came to upgrade the cooker. When the fitters swapped the cooker over, it became apparent that the kitchen fitters hadn’t moved the cooker switch and worse is that the cable was still behind the wall where the cooker used to be and nowhere near where the cooker is now. They had however, disconnected the cooker cable from the MCB and replaced it with the two wires that run my sockets ring main. Essentially, my range electric cooker was running on the sockets ring and not its own RCD.
Got the kitchen company back who re- ran the cooker cable to its rightful place.
All seemed fine until I came to change a standard socket for a decorative one. Switched the sockets off at the MCB and……nothing. Everything stayed on. On closer inspection, the two cables that supply my sockets are plugged into my shower RCD and cooker RCD. Nothing was in the sockets RCD.
I disco’d the MCB from the supply and put the socket cables in their rightful RCD but it trips when you switch anything on. Lamp, phone charger…….anything. I’ve been around the house and switched everything off and removed the plug and the RCD doesn’t trip. Plug one thing in and switch it on and it pops.
Now there are two wire’s that go into the RCD, one for upstairs and one for downstairs (I presume). The same problem occurs whether either is put in alternately or both cables are put in together.
I’ve contacted the kitchen company again, but unfortunately they’ve gone bump (probably for dodgy workmanship).
I’ve since been and bought a new RCD for the sockets and it does the same thing. (The RCD is a HAGER ADA 932U B32).
My house is about 15-20 years old and the only other alterations done to the sparks were some spurs from the kitchen sockets for the conservatory we had built BEFORE we had the kitchen done. No problems up to the point of the kitchen refurb’.
I’d be grateful for any ideas.
