Unswitched socket phone call

[M107]

Just had a phone call "I need to get the sockets changed you put in but only the ones that do not have switches"

Turns out she has watched a Which video clip on youtube (at about 2:18)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/MsQXbMzjjdU?feature=oembed

I told the dithering old dear "don't be so stupid".....................you can do that with your mother msl1:

 

[Tony S]

Change the sockets and give her the bill, simple enough.

 

[Revved Up Sparky]

When she is introduced as a "top electrician" I wonder what that acually means ? I'm sure that there are a few top electricians on this forum :Salute

The pendant inner cores may have simply come off the little plastic retainers inside. As for unswitched sockets, they are of course still being made and are widely used, eg, installed below worktops in kitchens (although they are switched by a DP switch/ FCU above the counter). IIRC in some situations unswitched sockets are actually recommended in the BYB ,for example for essential medical equipment.

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[kerching]

Priceless!  :slap

did not seem to matter that the single socket was on a switch box, suppose it keeps the wires nice and snug inside

prannock!

 

[Sharpend]

So to sum up then:

if you hear any funny buzzing sounds and there are some strange smells and you see some staining .........................................

i must make note for when a customer calls me round, do I tell her before I get there or wait until I've seen it for myself??

:C  

 

[kerching]

So to sum up then:

if you hear any funny buzzing sounds and there are some strange smells and you see some staining .........................................

i must make note for when a customer calls me round, do I tell her before I get there or wait until I've seen it for myself??

:C  

I had a dodgy King Prawn Phaal which reappeared later in much the same way....but i would say it was a tad louder than 'buzzing"

 

[steptoe]

AFAIAA you are not allowed to plug a boiler into a switched socket, :C

 

[Blue Duck]

I understood that you could only use DP sockets, I don't remember anything about switches but duh???

DP because if the double pole isolation cannot be achieved by removing the plug from the socket???

 

[Tony S]

DP because if the double pole isolation cannot be achieved by removing the plug from the socket???

Run that one by me again?

 

[Blue Duck]

lol Im a little incoherent today...

Man flu.

I understand the need for dp isolation but don't understand why that cannot be achieved by removing the plug from the socket???

 

[Tony S]

You could plug it back in again………. or………. turn the DP switch back on.

The argument just doesn’t make sense.

I nearly said doesn’t hold water but as its a boiler maybe not the best analogy.

 

[steptoe]

It's unswitched so as to isolate it must be unplugged, therefore DP isolation,

If it's switched most people will only switch off and some humpty may have changed it for a SP at some point