Called to a house where the customer had plugged in a microwave, put his arms down each side to lift it onto a shelf & got a tingle........
kitchen fitters had re-used old cable to run pelmet lights & a spured socket (the microwave was in the spur socket)
Not a fantastic picture (Blackberry camera is pants) but; spur socket cpc cutoff, csa of cable to spur socket is 1mm, csa of cable to ligts 1.5mm, double socket is a spur in its own right from ring main
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/gazjothomas/IMG00108-20120315-1441.jpg
Anyway while there the fella says
"we have to remember not to turn on the oven & touch the taps at the same time........ I got a hell of a shock when I last did."
Turned oven on put meter between draining board & oven metal work......oohhhhhhhh look 240v. I found the oven switch hidden in the back of a tall cupboard, load side cpc unsleeved & not connected to terminal, but it was in contact with the over stripped line conductor.
No certs/no rcd/non harmonised cables used, work done 3 years ago.
I do have the kitchen fitting company trading name & customer is calling them in the morning.
kitchen fitters had re-used old cable to run pelmet lights & a spured socket (the microwave was in the spur socket)
Not a fantastic picture (Blackberry camera is pants) but; spur socket cpc cutoff, csa of cable to spur socket is 1mm, csa of cable to ligts 1.5mm, double socket is a spur in its own right from ring main
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/gazjothomas/IMG00108-20120315-1441.jpg
Anyway while there the fella says
"we have to remember not to turn on the oven & touch the taps at the same time........ I got a hell of a shock when I last did."
Turned oven on put meter between draining board & oven metal work......oohhhhhhhh look 240v. I found the oven switch hidden in the back of a tall cupboard, load side cpc unsleeved & not connected to terminal, but it was in contact with the over stripped line conductor.
No certs/no rcd/non harmonised cables used, work done 3 years ago.
I do have the kitchen fitting company trading name & customer is calling them in the morning.