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Earth issue on lights found 6 months after rewire
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<blockquote data-quote="Gemmadoll" data-source="post: 492508" data-attributes="member: 32355"><p>Hi all</p><p></p><p>We have a 1930s house, we replaced the kitchen in June and found the kitchen/cooker were on the same circuit as the rest of the house. This prompted us to get a rewire of the kitchen and our electrical box was also replaced with an up to date metal box.</p><p></p><p>All seemed fine and we were given a cert but we got a call in December saying an auditor realised they hadn’t checked the entire house so could they come back and do it. We were fine with this so before Christmas they came and tested and found there was a break in our earth on the lighting circuit.</p><p></p><p>now they want to come and fix this which will potentially involve taking up our floor in our loft room to access upstairs ceiling lights and checking all of our wall lights downstairs. I guess once they find the issue this will involve chasing out etc.</p><p></p><p>We have a functioning RCD which does work, we have metal light switches through the entire house - no plastic.</p><p></p><p>What will potentially happen with no earth - the RCD will shut off the circuit but I know the RCD should be secondary to a functioning earth. </p><p></p><p>any advice much appreciated!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gemmadoll, post: 492508, member: 32355"] Hi all We have a 1930s house, we replaced the kitchen in June and found the kitchen/cooker were on the same circuit as the rest of the house. This prompted us to get a rewire of the kitchen and our electrical box was also replaced with an up to date metal box. All seemed fine and we were given a cert but we got a call in December saying an auditor realised they hadn’t checked the entire house so could they come back and do it. We were fine with this so before Christmas they came and tested and found there was a break in our earth on the lighting circuit. now they want to come and fix this which will potentially involve taking up our floor in our loft room to access upstairs ceiling lights and checking all of our wall lights downstairs. I guess once they find the issue this will involve chasing out etc. We have a functioning RCD which does work, we have metal light switches through the entire house - no plastic. What will potentially happen with no earth - the RCD will shut off the circuit but I know the RCD should be secondary to a functioning earth. any advice much appreciated! [/QUOTE]
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