Elite Thread XVI

In the world of coincidences.

Unscrewing the socket nearest the damp point, he found that the live cable was in contact with the screw holding the facing plate. Gradual wearing of the cable at that place had exposed the actual wires. So there would have been contact between the live wire and the back plate via the screw. So a live to earth contact, causing it to blow.

Think I got that right.

Sounds likely especially as it was tripping both. 

When we had the issue it went from tripping very intermittently to tripping frequently.  Ours was supposed to be a ring formed by joining up too radials at their end points but for some reason it had been left wired to the two original radial breakers...this meant we could find the fault by turning off one of the breakers (that of course left all the sockets still live as they were now in a ring(!)) and then disconnecting the onward wire at each socket, working backward until it stopped tripping - thus identifying he section of the circuit with the fault.

[Solution was to then disconnect the bit of wire with the fault between two sockets and make the remaining two halves of the circuit back into radials...  Electrician who wired it in this weird way was supplied by the builder who did the bit of the extension where there is apparently a damp problem - the problem I suspects remains but is out of sight, out of mind]

Glad you've sorted your electric problem silver, now the damp. Like SSm says check your downpipe.
The plastering does look better in the second picture 😂.

Pleased the electrical issues is sorted.  The damp patch appears to be penetrative, rather than rising... so much easier to address now, rather than in later when it will have damaged the brick/rendering.  x

(((busybee)))

The water maybe coming out of where the white/black meet each other and running down.  

When DS2 bought my mum's house, which had been empty for years, prior to that she had lived in it when as she declined with dementia.  DS2 had a huge problem with penetrative damp on one wall, so much so, he had taken the blown plaster off the wall, and obtained a quote for a new DPC.  I popped down, and realised that the neighbour had tapped into mum's soil pipe, both illegally and undertaken very badly, and that the damp was originating for this (evident on the markings on the pipe, and wall).  I spoke to the neighbour... well misogyny is his middle name, he would not accept it.  I rang OH and told him to come down.  When OH arrived, he said word for word what I said (as the evidence was there), and the bleep accepted it, then refused to put it right (I then gave him a double barrelled middled name that cannot be repeated).  I'd just about lost my will not to murder him, and told him he had 6 weeks to put it right, or I would address it fully, including contracting someone to do the work billing him, raising a formal complaint in relation to exploiting an elderly woman with the police and his wife's employer (she was in the care sector).. I put my views in writing and sent electronically.  Thankfully 6 weeks later he had disconnected his stack.  Leaving a lot a remedial work to be completed by OH and DS2.  If only we had realised when the damp started, but this was hidden behind mum's curtains, and the flipping surveyor missed it! 

You're all very kind, DIL not me, with GD and they're back home now.



Glad you found it silver, I love how eclectic this thread is, like real life.

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Surely we have someone with a kitchen revamp. Did DM move the door?

No, decided against moving the door, just changed the kitchen totally around, its a bit 'different, but works well for me, and its uses.

Inna was looking for one🤗

Haven’t a clue.

my observation is that I wear my engagement ring/ wedding ring combo the other way round!

My OH is gradually getting himself in the mind set to start our kitchen....DM started and finished his kitchen whilst I've been waiting for OH to even start! 


Is the end of your finger slightly red?

Yes it is and more than slightly bent lol

No ssm that's why I can't understand it. It doesn't hurt either well not up to now . Yes I will do thanks .