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Bathroom - Shock!
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<blockquote data-quote="Murdoch" data-source="post: 397908" data-attributes="member: 24445"><p>I can't edit my post above but YOU SHOULD get somebody in to check this out.</p><p></p><p>I was recently called to something very similar - a newly refitted bathroom, and the home owner getting shocks in the bathroom.</p><p></p><p>Barry the bathroom fitter had replaced a single light with 3 downlights - no continuity from the earth back to the fuseboard present.</p><p></p><p>Barry the bathroom fitter had removed the pull cord and fitted a switch in the outside wall - no continuity rom the earth back to the fuseboard present</p><p></p><p>Barry the bathroom fitter had brought "his" electrician and they hadn't found anything and thought it was static.</p><p></p><p>I discovered that :</p><p></p><p>Barry the bathroom fitter had put a screw for the metal frame of the shower in contact with the switched live so when the lights were on the frame was at 230 v - good job that the resident, in her 70's hadn't grabbed the shower frame and metal radiator at the same time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Murdoch, post: 397908, member: 24445"] I can't edit my post above but YOU SHOULD get somebody in to check this out. I was recently called to something very similar - a newly refitted bathroom, and the home owner getting shocks in the bathroom. Barry the bathroom fitter had replaced a single light with 3 downlights - no continuity from the earth back to the fuseboard present. Barry the bathroom fitter had removed the pull cord and fitted a switch in the outside wall - no continuity rom the earth back to the fuseboard present Barry the bathroom fitter had brought "his" electrician and they hadn't found anything and thought it was static. I discovered that : Barry the bathroom fitter had put a screw for the metal frame of the shower in contact with the switched live so when the lights were on the frame was at 230 v - good job that the resident, in her 70's hadn't grabbed the shower frame and metal radiator at the same time. [/QUOTE]
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