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So update to my saga! I am back on which is good!    BG engineer could find no voltage on any of the taps or areas I was detecting it. He said he doesn’t generally trust the wands like I was using for accuracy (made by a company called Intey). Confirmed cross bonding and RCD more than...

It’s metal coming in so yes could certainly be that.    I’ll let you know what I find out, but thanks for the advice.

So my pipe comes out the meter under decking from my porch then up along the side of the house to the loft where the combi boiler is, it seems to have more detected once in the loft thought, further down it’s harder to get a reading. The other houses are opposite side for their meters, so my...

So it’s a end of terrace cluster house, meaning it is back to back with my neighbour then all the rest are normal terrace. Fairly modern mid 70s and most the electric seems fairly modern, this has only recently started. The only other thing still with power in my loft seems to be the old aerial...

Mine detector is only a basic one that makes a noise when detected, but comes up very strongly on the bathroom taps and loft pipework, but oddly less so on the gas pipework coming down the wall.    The DNO couldn’t detect anything on his pen but has had to leave me cut off as can’t leave me...

Thanks, tried them and they are coming out straight away even though I did explain it was mild! My mistake was starting with the gas emergency line who didn’t want to know! 

Hi all,  Thank you in advance for any comments. I recently found on two occasions that I was getting a very mild electric shock from my shower taps when in the shower. I was trying to trace the issue and found that even with all power off at the fusebox a voltage detector immediately goes off...